Top React UI Libraries
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React is a popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces, developed and maintained by Facebook.
Code Example
function Welcome(props) {
return <h1>Hello, {props.name}</h1>;
}
Pros
- React has a large, active community and extensive ecosystem of tools and libraries.
- It offers excellent performance through its virtual DOM implementation.
- React's component-based architecture promotes reusability and maintainability.
Cons
- React has a steeper learning curve compared to some other UI libraries.
- It requires additional libraries for state management and routing in larger applications.
- React's frequent updates can sometimes lead to compatibility issues with older code.
Material-UI is a popular React UI framework that implements Google's Material Design.
Code Example
import { Button } from '@mui/material';
<Button variant="contained" color="primary">
Hello World
</Button>
Pros
- Comprehensive set of pre-built components, reducing development time
- Excellent documentation and community support
- Highly customizable with theming capabilities
Cons
- Larger bundle size compared to some lightweight alternatives
- Steeper learning curve for beginners due to its extensive API
- Some developers find the default Material Design aesthetic limiting
Ant Design is a comprehensive React UI library with a set of high-quality components and design resources.
Code Example
import { Button } from 'antd';
const App = () => (
<Button type="primary">Hello, Ant Design!</Button>
);
Pros
- Offers a wide range of well-designed, customizable components out of the box
- Provides excellent documentation and design resources, including Figma files
- Has strong community support and is widely adopted in enterprise applications
Cons
- Can be considered opinionated in terms of design, which may not suit all projects
- Has a larger bundle size compared to more lightweight alternatives like Chakra UI
- Less flexible for custom styling compared to utility-first frameworks like Tailwind CSS
Storybook is an open-source tool for building UI components and pages in isolation, making it easier to develop, test, and document UI components.
Code Example
import { Button } from './Button';
export default {
component: Button,
title: 'Components/Button',
};
export const Primary = () => <Button primary>Button</Button>;
Pros
- Provides a sandbox environment for developing and testing UI components in isolation, unlike many other UI libraries.
- Offers extensive documentation and addon ecosystem, surpassing many other projects in customization options.
- Supports multiple frontend frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, etc.), making it more versatile than framework-specific tools.
Cons
- Has a steeper learning curve compared to simpler UI libraries or component collections.
- Requires additional setup and configuration, which can be more time-consuming than using pre-built UI kits.
- May introduce extra complexity to smaller projects where a full-fledged component development environment isn't necessary.
shadcn-ui/ui is a collection of re-usable components built using Radix UI and Tailwind CSS, designed for easy customization and integration into React projects.
Code Example
import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button"
export default function Home() {
return <Button>Click me</Button>
}
Pros
- Highly customizable and flexible, allowing developers to easily modify components to fit their specific needs
- Built on top of popular and well-maintained libraries (Radix UI and Tailwind CSS), ensuring stability and community support
- Provides a good balance between pre-built components and the ability to customize, unlike some more opinionated UI libraries
Cons
- Less comprehensive than larger UI libraries like Material-UI or Ant Design, offering fewer pre-built components
- Requires more setup and configuration compared to some "plug-and-play" UI libraries
- May have a steeper learning curve for developers not familiar with Radix UI or Tailwind CSS concepts
All Top Projects
react
The library for web and native user interfaces.
material-ui
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
ant-design
An enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library
storybook
Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation
ui
A set of beautifully-designed, accessible components and a code distribution platform. Works with your favorite frameworks. Open Source. Open Code.
ionic-framework
A powerful cross-platform UI toolkit for building native-quality iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
chakra-ui
Chakra UI is a component system for building products with speed ⚡️
Flowise
Drag & drop UI to build your customized LLM flow
headlessui
Completely unstyled, fully accessible UI components, designed to integrate beautifully with Tailwind CSS.
dioxus
Fullstack app framework for web, desktop, mobile, and more.
table
🤖 Headless UI for building powerful tables & datagrids for TS/JS - React-Table, Vue-Table, Solid-Table, Svelte-Table
react-native-elements
Cross-Platform React Native UI Toolkit
Visual CopilotPromo
Turn Figma designs into high-quality code using AI
recharts
Redefined chart library built with React and D3
docz
✍ It has never been so easy to document your things!
heroui
🚀 Beautiful, fast and modern React UI library. (Previously NextUI)
github-profile-readme-generator
🚀 Generate GitHub profile README easily with the latest add-ons like visitors count, GitHub stats, etc using minimal UI.
react-native-web
Cross-platform React UI packages
blueprint
A React-based UI toolkit for the web
ant-design-vue
🌈 An enterprise-class UI components based on Ant Design and Vue. 🐜
NativeBase
Mobile-first, accessible components for React Native & Web to build consistent UI across Android, iOS and Web.
fluentui
Fluent UI web represents a collection of utilities, React components, and web components for building web applications.
CopilotKit
React UI + elegant infrastructure for AI Copilots, AI chatbots, and in-app AI agents. The Agentic last-mile 🪁
react-native-vector-icons
Customizable Icons for React Native with support for image source and full styling.
primitives
Radix Primitives is an open-source UI component library for building high-quality, accessible design systems and web apps. Maintained by @workos.
magicui
UI Library for Design Engineers. Animated components and effects you can copy and paste into your apps. Free. Open Source.
react-jsonschema-form
A React component for building Web forms from JSON Schema.
formatjs
The monorepo home to all of the FormatJS related libraries, most notably react-intl.
react-native-gifted-chat
💬 The most complete chat UI for React Native
draw-a-ui
Draw a mockup and generate html for it
Semantic-UI-React
The official Semantic-UI-React integration