Top TypeScript UI Libraries
Top 5 Projects Compared
Ant Design is a popular React UI library with a set of high-quality components and design resources for building elegant user interfaces.
Code Example
import { Button } from 'antd';
const MyComponent = () => (
<Button type="primary">Click me</Button>
);
Pros
- Comprehensive component library with a wide range of pre-built, customizable UI elements
- Strong community support and regular updates, ensuring compatibility and new features
- Excellent documentation and examples, making it easy for developers to implement and customize
Cons
- Relatively large bundle size compared to some lightweight alternatives like Tailwind CSS
- Opinionated design system may require more effort to customize for unique brand identities
- Steeper learning curve for developers not familiar with React or component-based architecture
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 projects that focus on complete UI frameworks or specific component libraries.
- Offers extensive documentation and a large ecosystem of addons, making it more versatile than some specialized UI tools like Editor.js or Draw-a-UI.
- Supports multiple frontend frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, etc.), unlike framework-specific projects like Ant Design or Ionic.
Cons
- Requires additional setup and configuration compared to all-in-one UI frameworks like Ant Design or Vuetify.
- Focuses primarily on component development and documentation, lacking the full application structure provided by projects like Vue Vben Admin or Directus.
- May have a steeper learning curve for beginners compared to simpler UI libraries or design systems like Shadcn UI or Magic UI.
Ionic Framework is an open-source UI toolkit for building performant, high-quality mobile and desktop apps using web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).
Code Example
<ion-content>
<ion-button>Click Me</ion-button>
<ion-list>
<ion-item>Item 1</ion-item>
<ion-item>Item 2</ion-item>
</ion-list>
</ion-content>
Pros
- Offers a comprehensive set of pre-built UI components specifically designed for mobile and desktop applications.
- Provides excellent cross-platform compatibility, allowing developers to build apps for iOS, Android, and web from a single codebase.
- Integrates well with popular JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, and Vue.
Cons
- May have a steeper learning curve compared to some other UI libraries due to its mobile-first approach and specific component structure.
- Performance can be slightly slower than native apps, especially for complex applications with heavy animations.
- While versatile, it may not offer as many specialized components as some domain-specific libraries (e.g., data visualization libraries like recharts).
Vuetify is a popular Material Design component framework for Vue.js applications.
Code Example
<template>
<v-app>
<v-btn color="primary">Click me</v-btn>
</v-app>
</template>
Pros
- Offers a comprehensive set of pre-built Material Design components, making it easier to create polished Vue.js applications quickly.
- Provides excellent documentation and a large community, ensuring good support and resources for developers.
- Integrates seamlessly with Vue.js, offering a smooth development experience for Vue developers.
Cons
- Limited customization options compared to more flexible UI libraries like Tailwind CSS or styled-components.
- Larger bundle size compared to some lightweight alternatives, which may impact initial load times.
- Strictly follows Material Design guidelines, which may not be suitable for projects requiring a unique visual style.
Directus is an open-source headless CMS and API platform for managing and delivering content across various applications and platforms.
Pros
- Offers a flexible and customizable backend with a user-friendly admin interface, unlike many UI-focused projects in the list.
- Provides a comprehensive API for content management, which is not the primary focus of most UI libraries mentioned.
- Supports multiple database types and can be self-hosted, offering more control compared to some cloud-based solutions.
Cons
- Lacks built-in UI components for frontend development, unlike Ant Design, Vuetify, or Ionic Framework.
- May require more setup and configuration compared to all-in-one solutions like Vue Vben Admin or Flowbite.
- Has a steeper learning curve for developers who are primarily focused on frontend development, compared to pure UI libraries.
Code Example
const Directus = require('@directus/sdk');
const directus = new Directus('https://api.example.com');
await directus.auth.login({ email: 'admin@example.com', password: 'password' });
const articles = await directus.items('articles').readMany();
All Top Projects
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
ionic-framework
A powerful cross-platform UI toolkit for building native-quality iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
vuetify
🐉 Vue Component Framework
directus
The flexible backend for all your projects 🐰 Turn your DB into a headless CMS, admin panels, or apps with a custom UI, instant APIs, auth & more.
editor.js
A block-style editor with clean JSON output
vue-vben-admin
A modern vue admin panel built with Vue3, Shadcn UI, Vite, TypeScript, and Monorepo. It's fast!
table
🤖 Headless UI for building powerful tables & datagrids for TS/JS - React-Table, Vue-Table, Solid-Table, Svelte-Table
recharts
Redefined chart library built with React and D3
CopilotKit
React UI + elegant infrastructure for AI Copilots, AI chatbots, and in-app AI agents. The Agentic last-mile 🪁
blueprint
A React-based UI toolkit for the web
onlook
The Cursor for Designers • An Open-Source Visual Vibecoding Editor • Visually build, style, and edit your React App with AI
Visual CopilotPromo
Turn Figma designs into high-quality code using AI
taxonomy
An open source application built using the new router, server components and everything new in Next.js 13.
magicui
UI Library for Design Engineers. Animated components and effects you can copy and paste into your apps. Free. Open Source.
naive-ui
A Vue 3 Component Library. Fairly Complete. Theme Customizable. Uses TypeScript. Fast.
plate
Rich-text editor with AI, MCP, and shadcn/ui
draw-a-ui
Draw a mockup and generate html for it
ui-router
The de-facto solution to flexible routing with nested views in AngularJS
tamagui
Style React fast with 100% parity on React Native, an optional UI kit, and optimizing compiler.
ant-design-mobile
Essential UI blocks for building mobile web apps.
primeng
The Most Complete Angular UI Component Library
oni
Oni: Modern Modal Editing - powered by Neovim
ng-zorro-antd
Angular UI Component Library based on Ant Design
chat-ui
Open source codebase powering the HuggingChat app
flowbite
Open-source UI component library and front-end development framework based on Tailwind CSS
fluent-reader
Modern desktop RSS reader built with Electron, React, and Fluent UI
nebular
:boom: Customizable Angular UI Library based on Eva Design System :new_moon_with_face::sparkles:Dark Mode
panel
Pterodactyl® is a free, open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. Designed with security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful and intuitive UI to end users.
morphic
An AI-powered search engine with a generative UI
rowy
Low-code backend platform. Manage database on spreadsheet-like UI and build cloud functions workflows in JS/TS, all in your browser.