Passing props to material UI style

Deleted the old answer, because it's no reason for existence.

Here's what you want:

import React from 'react';
import { makeStyles } from '@material-ui/core';

const useStyles = makeStyles({
    firstStyle: {
        backgroundColor: props => props.backgroundColor,
    },
    secondStyle: {
        color: props => props.color,
    },
});

const MyComponent = ({children, ...props}) =>{
    const { firstStyle, secondStyle } = useStyles(props);
    return(
        <div className={`${firstStyle} ${secondStyle}`}>
            {children}
        </div>
    )
}

export default MyComponent;

Now you can use it like:

<MyComponent color="yellow" backgroundColor="purple">
    Well done
</MyComponent>

Official Documentation

Solution for how to use both props and theme in material ui :

const useStyles = props => makeStyles( theme => ({
    div: {
        width: theme.spacing(props.units || 0)  
    }
}));

export default function ComponentExample({ children, ...props }){
    const { div } = useStyles(props)();
    return (
        <div className={div}>{children}</div>
    );
}

Here's the official Material-UI demo.

And here's a very simple example. It uses syntax similar to Styled Components:

import React from "react";
import { makeStyles, Button } from "@material-ui/core";

const useStyles = makeStyles({
  root: {
    background: props => props.color,
    "&:hover": {
      background: props => props.hover
    }
  },
  label: { fontFamily: props => props.font }
});

export function MyButton(props) {
  const classes = useStyles(props);
  return <Button className={classes.root} classes={{ label: classes.label }}>My Button</Button>;
}


// and the JSX...
<MyButton color="red" hover="blue" font="Comic Sans MS" />

This demo uses makeStyles, but this feature is also available in styled and withStyles.

This was first introduced in @material-ui/styles on Nov 3, 2018 and was included in @material-ui/core starting with version 4.