The Top 5 Chakra UI Tips and Tricks for React Developers

Chakra UI is a popular component library for building customizable React applications. It provides a solid foundation of reusable UI components that allow you to rapidly create polished, professional-looking interfaces. Here at Ayrshare, we recently rewrote our social media dashboard in Chakra UI – we were previously using an offshoot of Bootstrap. No matter how much research you do or POCs, you never know until you start the real work. Thankfully, we found Chakra UI lived up to its reputation: the breadth of components, speed, and flexibility was fantastic.

Let’s now dive into what we discovered during our dashboard rebuild: our top five Chakra UI tips and tricks for React developers.

One of the greatest strengths of Chakra UI is its theme customization capabilities. With just a few lines of code, you can tailor the colors, typography, component styles, and other visual aspects of your entire application.

To customize your theme, start by creating a custom theme object. You can either extend the default Chakra UI theme using the extendTheme function or build your theme from scratch. Here’s an example of extending the default theme with some custom colors, fonts, and component overrides:

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