Top React component libraries (2021 edition)
Because of React’s ubiquity (169k stars on GitHub), developers have a near-endless supply of UI libraries with custom components to draw upon to build applications. But not all React component libraries are created equal. Some are best for general purposes, others were created specifically for web development, and many are tailored for niche use cases like enterprise product production.
We’ll review React component libraries in this post considering several factors like popularity, use cases, documentation, resources, support, etc.
Developed by Google in 2014, Material-UI is a general-purpose customizable component library to build React applications. The folks at Google designed Material-UI as an adaptable system of guidelines, components, and tools to make app building beautiful yet straightforward.
Google also provides guidelines for usage, design principles, dos and don’t, and best practices for each type of component. This makes it easy for developers to build well-designed apps regardless of intuition for design.
