diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0c28568b..3013485b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ const Html = () => (
 )
 ```
 
-Rendering on the client automatically includes your app styles:
+Rendering on the client automatically includes your app styles and supports
+progressive app loading (i.e. code-splitting / lazy bundle loading):
 
 ```js
 // client.js
diff --git a/docs/apis/StyleSheet.md b/docs/apis/StyleSheet.md
index 22d7a063..b0b96c8e 100644
--- a/docs/apis/StyleSheet.md
+++ b/docs/apis/StyleSheet.md
@@ -37,24 +37,10 @@ Use styles:
 </View>
 ```
 
-Render styles on the server or in the browser:
-
-```js
-StyleSheet.renderToString()
-```
-
 ## Methods
 
 **create**(obj: {[key: string]: any})
 
-**destroy**()
-
-Clears all style information.
-
-**renderToString**()
-
-Renders a CSS Style Sheet.
-
 ## About
 
 ### Strategy
@@ -71,9 +57,9 @@ CSS](https://speakerdeck.com/vjeux/react-css-in-js):
 6. Non-deterministic resolution
 7. Breaking isolation
 
-The strategy also minimizes the amount of generated CSS, making it more viable
-to inline the style sheet when pre-rendering pages on the server. There is one
-unique selector per unique style _declaration_.
+The strategy minimizes the amount of generated CSS, making it viable to inline
+the style sheet when pre-rendering pages on the server. There is one unique
+selector per unique style _declaration_.
 
 ```js
 // definition
@@ -88,7 +74,7 @@ unique selector per unique style _declaration_.
   }
 }
 
-// css
+// css output
 //
 // .a { color: gray; }
 // .b { font-size: 2rem; }
@@ -130,16 +116,17 @@ In production the class names are obfuscated.
 (CSS libraries like [Atomic CSS](http://acss.io/),
 [Basscss](http://www.basscss.com/), [SUIT CSS](https://suitcss.github.io/), and
 [tachyons](http://tachyons.io/) are attempts to limit style scope and limit
-style sheet growth in a similar way. But they're CSS utility libraries, each with a
-particular set of classes and features to learn. All of them require developers
-to manually connect CSS classes for given styles.)
+style sheet growth in a similar way. But they're CSS utility libraries, each
+with a particular set of classes and features to learn. And all of them require
+developers to manually connect CSS classes for given styles.)
 
 ### Reset
 
 React Native for Web includes a very small CSS reset taken from
-[normalize.css](https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/). It removes unwanted
-User Agent styles from (pseudo-)elements beyond the reach of React (e.g.,
-`html`, `body`) or inline styles (e.g., `::-moz-focus-inner`).
+[normalize.css](https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/) – **you do not need
+to include normalize.css**. It removes unwanted User Agent styles from
+(pseudo-)elements beyond the reach of React (e.g., `html`, `body`) or inline
+styles (e.g., `::-moz-focus-inner`).
 
 ```css
 html {
@@ -162,4 +149,10 @@ input[type="search"]::-webkit-search-cancel-button,
 input[type="search"]::-webkit-search-decoration {
   -webkit-appearance: none;
 }
+
+ol,
+ul,
+li {
+  list-style:none
+}
 ```
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ff38ac60..bbfae4eb 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     "dist"
   ],
   "scripts": {
-    "build": "rm -rf ./dist && mkdir dist && babel src -d dist --ignore src/**/__tests__,src/modules/specHelpers",
+    "build": "rm -rf ./dist && mkdir dist && babel src -d dist --ignore **/__tests__,src/modules/specHelpers",
     "build:umd": "webpack --config config/webpack.config.js --sort-assets-by --progress",
     "examples": "webpack-dev-server --config config/webpack.config.example.js --inline --hot --colors --quiet",
     "lint": "eslint config examples src",
diff --git a/src/__tests__/index-test.js b/src/__tests__/index-test.js
index a047a866..a287efd7 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/index-test.js
+++ b/src/__tests__/index-test.js
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 /* eslint-env mocha */
 
-import * as utils from '../modules/specHelpers'
 import assert from 'assert'
 import React from '..'
 
diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index 95e8ad70..3f6aa607 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import Touchable from './components/Touchable'
 import View from './components/View'
 
 const renderStyle = () => {
-  return `<style id='react-stylesheet'>${StyleSheet.renderToString()}</style>`
+  return `<style id='react-stylesheet'>${StyleSheet._renderToString()}</style>`
 }
 
 const render = (element, container, callback) => {
diff --git a/src/modules/StyleSheet/__tests__/index-test.js b/src/modules/StyleSheet/__tests__/index-test.js
index dcf16c4f..93939085 100644
--- a/src/modules/StyleSheet/__tests__/index-test.js
+++ b/src/modules/StyleSheet/__tests__/index-test.js
@@ -8,24 +8,40 @@ const styles = { root: { borderWidth: 1 } }
 
 suite('modules/StyleSheet', () => {
   setup(() => {
-    StyleSheet.destroy()
+    StyleSheet._destroy()
   })
 
-  test('create', () => {
-    assert.equal(StyleSheet.create(styles), styles)
-  })
+  suite('create', () => {
+    const div = document.createElement('div')
 
-  test('renderToString', () => {
-    StyleSheet.create(styles)
-    assert.equal(
-      StyleSheet.renderToString(),
-      `${resetCSS}\n${predefinedCSS}\n` +
-      `/* 4 unique declarations */\n` +
-      `.borderBottomWidth\\:1px{border-bottom-width:1px;}\n` +
-      `.borderLeftWidth\\:1px{border-left-width:1px;}\n` +
-      `.borderRightWidth\\:1px{border-right-width:1px;}\n` +
-      `.borderTopWidth\\:1px{border-top-width:1px;}`
-    )
+    setup(() => {
+      document.body.appendChild(div)
+      StyleSheet.create(styles)
+      div.innerHTML = `<style id='react-stylesheet'>${StyleSheet._renderToString()}</style>`
+    })
+
+    teardown(() => {
+      document.body.removeChild(div)
+    })
+
+    test('returns styles object', () => {
+      assert.equal(StyleSheet.create(styles), styles)
+    })
+
+    test('updates already-rendered style sheet', () => {
+      StyleSheet.create({ root: { color: 'red' } })
+
+      assert.equal(
+        document.getElementById('react-stylesheet').textContent,
+        `${resetCSS}\n${predefinedCSS}\n` +
+        `/* 5 unique declarations */\n` +
+        `.borderBottomWidth\\:1px{border-bottom-width:1px;}\n` +
+        `.borderLeftWidth\\:1px{border-left-width:1px;}\n` +
+        `.borderRightWidth\\:1px{border-right-width:1px;}\n` +
+        `.borderTopWidth\\:1px{border-top-width:1px;}\n` +
+        `.color\\:red{color:red;}`
+      )
+    })
   })
 
   test('resolve', () => {
@@ -34,4 +50,17 @@ suite('modules/StyleSheet', () => {
     StyleSheet.create(styles)
     assert.deepEqual(StyleSheet.resolve(props), expected)
   })
+
+  test('_renderToString', () => {
+    StyleSheet.create(styles)
+    assert.equal(
+      StyleSheet._renderToString(),
+      `${resetCSS}\n${predefinedCSS}\n` +
+      `/* 4 unique declarations */\n` +
+      `.borderBottomWidth\\:1px{border-bottom-width:1px;}\n` +
+      `.borderLeftWidth\\:1px{border-left-width:1px;}\n` +
+      `.borderRightWidth\\:1px{border-right-width:1px;}\n` +
+      `.borderTopWidth\\:1px{border-top-width:1px;}`
+    )
+  })
 })
diff --git a/src/modules/StyleSheet/index.js b/src/modules/StyleSheet/index.js
index 9e41a1e8..0f1222ca 100644
--- a/src/modules/StyleSheet/index.js
+++ b/src/modules/StyleSheet/index.js
@@ -13,6 +13,24 @@ const initialState = { classNames: predefinedClassNames }
 const options = { obfuscateClassNames: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' }
 const createStore = () => new Store(initialState, options)
 let store = createStore()
+let isRendered = false
+
+/**
+ * Destroy existing styles
+ */
+const _destroy = () => {
+  store = createStore()
+  isRendered = false
+}
+
+/**
+ * Render the styles as a CSS style sheet
+ */
+const _renderToString = () => {
+  const css = store.toString()
+  isRendered = true
+  return `${resetCSS}\n${predefinedCSS}\n${css}`
+}
 
 /**
  * Process all unique declarations
@@ -33,24 +51,20 @@ const create = (styles: Object): Object => {
       }
     })
   })
+
+  // update the style sheet in place
+  if (isRendered) {
+    const stylesheet = document.getElementById('react-stylesheet')
+    if (stylesheet) {
+      stylesheet.textContent = _renderToString()
+    } else if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') {
+      console.error('ReactNativeWeb: cannot find "react-stylesheet" element')
+    }
+  }
+
   return styles
 }
 
-/**
- * Destroy existing styles
- */
-const destroy = () => {
-  store = createStore()
-}
-
-/**
- * Render the styles as a CSS style sheet
- */
-const renderToString = () => {
-  const css = store.toString()
-  return `${resetCSS}\n${predefinedCSS}\n${css}`
-}
-
 /**
  * Accepts React props and converts inline styles to single purpose classes
  * where possible.
@@ -81,8 +95,8 @@ const resolve = ({ className = '', style = {} }) => {
 }
 
 export default {
+  _destroy,
+  _renderToString,
   create,
-  destroy,
-  renderToString,
   resolve
 }