Hello, I'm Maria, and today we are going to review the top React UI Component Libraries. (upbeat music) React UI Component Libraries are useful tools to help you create stunning interfaces with your React-based software applications and websites. Although you can write your own code for each feature or functionality you want to include in your design, using a UI component library makes the entire task easier and faster. So in this video, we will cover the best React UI Component Libraries so you can pick the most suitable one for your project. But before we get started, I wanna let you know that there will be links to more resources in the video's description. And remember, subscribe and ring that bell to get notifications for future helpful content. Now let's review some libraries. Remember, most of these libraries are pay-to-use, so the prices mentioned were accurate at the time this video was filmed. Material-UI or MUI is a fully loaded UI component library that offers a comprehensive set of UI tools to create and deploy new features at speed. It is one of the most powerful and popular UI component libraries out there with over 3.2 million downloads on NPM a week, 78,000 stars on GitHub, 17,000 followers on Twitter and 2,400 open source contributors. There are two ways to go about it. You can either use this component library directly, or bring your design system to their production ready components. This platform will enable you to design faster without sacrificing control or flexibility. It will help you deliver excellent designs in order to delight the end users. The best thing is is that you can use MUI for free forever with basic features. For advanced features, you can choose a paid plan starting at $15 a month per developer. If you are looking for a React-based UI component library to build enterprise grade products, Ant design is an excellent option. It will help you create an enjoyable yet productive work experience. This tool is used by companies like Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent and many more. Ant Design offers multiple UI components to help enrich your application and software systems. Furthermore Ant design also recommends you use other React-based third party component libraries like React JSON View, React Hooks library and more. It does maintain documentation and supports community discussions through GitHub, Segmentfault and Stack Overflow. Another popular front end framework, React Bootstrap, is rebuilt for React-based applications and systems. It has replaced Bootstrap JavaScript where each component is developed from scratch as native React components with no need for dependencies such as jQuery. React Bootstrap, despite being one of the earliest React libraries has evolved to become an excellent option for building effortless user interfaces. It includes amazing UI elements for your mobile and web applications. There's no official support for React Bootstrap, but it has plenty of useful resources available on the web, along with an active community. If you seek any help, you can go to Stack Overflow, Reactiviflux Discord and GitHub Issues. Create React applications with Chakra UI, which is a simple, accessible and modular component library. It offers useful building blocks to help you build valuable features in your applications and delight users. Chakra's popularity is growing due to its awesome offerings and performance. Currently, it has 1.3 million downloads a month, 19,700 GitHub stars, 7,400 Discord members, and 10,000 core contributors. With this tool by your side, you will spend less time coding and more time creating wonderful experiences for the end users. Chakra UI is designed to make it easier for developers to add features faster without creating everything from scratch. As a result, they will have to write fewer codes and can choose a component directly in their design without having to write code for each component from scratch. It not only saves them time, but also effort so that they can invest their valuable time in innovation. In case you come across any issues, you can approach Chakra's active maintenance team to ask questions and clear any doubts. Blueprint is a React-based UI toolkit that you can use to build your web applications. It's an open source project created at Palantir, an organization with practical experience in enhancing customer experience by interacting with data via applications. If you are building data dense and complex interfaces, this tool will be highly suitable for you. It's also majorly used for desktop apps. This component library has over a thousand stars on GitHub. Blueprint's documentation is excellent and includes in-depth tutorials that developers can go through and master in the library. Since it lacks support options, you can get help on Stack Overflow and Blueprint's GitHub repository, which is active with contributors. Created by Airbnb, visx is a collection of multiple low level expressive visualization primitives built for React applications. It was developed to unify a complete visualization stack throughout the company, bringing together the delight of React with the robustness of D3 for calculations. With visx by your side, you will get a native experience in any React-based code base, as it has the same patterns and standard APIs. This way, it solves the problems of copy and pasting various React hooks. Instead, it can abstract D3 details and offer utilities and components in standard formats. If you like customizable and performing charts, visx is a great tool. Visx offers detailed documentation with complete instructions for installation, description and integration, along with an API list with some examples of each. Apart from a comprehensive gallery of useful examples for visualizations, visx provides you with many useful blog posts and a getting started tutorial to help you start and use this tool. Fluent is a cross platform, open source design tool to help you create an engaging user experience. It was previously named Fabric React and is an excellent UI library created by Microsoft. Developers and designers can benefit from its useful tools to add design elements to their applications without having to create them from scratch. This tool is powerful and intuitive and is built to adjust as per user intent and behavior. No matter what device you use, working with Fluent feels natural, be it PCs, laptops, or tablets. Fluent is one of the best tools if you are creating cross-platform applications, however, it's also great for other projects. Since it's open source, you can use the code and modify it based on your needs, however, it may lack in-depth documentation. But if you need help, there are other resources and blog posts available on the internet. Therefore, it's best for developers and designers with some prior experience. Integrating React with Semantic UI can be an excellent strategy to get a customized UI component library for your projects. Semantic UI React helps you build your sites and applications with concise and easy HTML. It has 12,000 stars on GitHub. With this tool, you can load any CSS theme you want on the app you are building. It also has human-friendly HTML to develop software products. It's a declarative API that offers powerful prop validation and features. This free and open source tool is used in several large scale software production environments. Created by Tailwind Labs, Headless UI offers fully accessible and unstyled UI components designed to be easily compatible with Tailwind CSS. It is one of the best UI libraries for all your React-based projects. It also is popular with 54,500 stars on GitHub. Since this tool can separate the app logic from the visual components, it's an excellent option if you are building a UI for your application. It enables you to create applications easily without leaving your HTML. Also, it's a utility focused CSS library full of classes such as rotate-90, text-center, pt-4 and flex. Regarding the support and documentation, Headless UI is good. It has a strong community on GitHub and you can also connect with other users of Headless UI on the Tailwind CSS Discord server and seek help. In addition, Headless UI's discussions page stays active with general help, interactions and feature requests. If you are looking for a React framework to build your B2B applications, React-admin is a good option. It aims to provide the best experiences to developers and enables you to focus more on fulfilling your business needs. This is an open source tool with an MIT license and is robust, stable, easy to learn and a joy to work with. This is why 10,000 companies across the world have used React-admin on their projects. With React-admin, you can create delightful UIs, whether you are building your internal tools, B2B apps, CRMs, or ERPs. It aims at increasing the maintainability and productivity of developers by allowing them to design faster. Besides accessing code and documentation, you'll get professional support from Marmelab, a 50% discount on the professional service you choose and access to advanced features such as a calendar, audit log, many-to-many, real time, editable data grids, role-based access controls, et cetera. Keep in mind, there are two additions of React-admin. Community Edition. It's completely free so you can access its code and documentation without paying anything. For support, you can refer to its Stack Overflow community. And the Enterprise Edition. If you want to leverage more options and freedom, you can buy the Enterprise edition which starts from 125 Euros per month or 127 US dollars per month. If you are building internal applications, Retool is an excellent option. It will eliminate the struggle with UI libraries, data sources and access tools. You'll get a streamlined way to handle everything and produce apps that customers would love to use. This tool has been used by businesses of all sizes, from Fortune 500s to startups for creating awesome internal applications. Furthermore, you can view revision history with the help of Git and sign in securely using Two-Factor Authentication, Single Sign-On or Security Assertion Markup Language. In addition, it offers audit logs and fine-grained access controls to allow only permitted individuals to access your applications. Retool offers extensive documentation and support. Its support is available on its Discourse forum, Slack, Intercom for live chat and dedicated support for enterprise customers. There's a free trial available for Retool. You can also watch the demo available on its official site to know how the tool works. Grommet is an all around React framework with a tidy package that contains responsiveness, theming, accessibility and modularity. It will help you streamline your software development with an effortless UI component library. This tool is an outstanding option if you are looking for a comprehensive design system to build accessible and responsive mobile-first web projects. It's created by HPE and provides a vibrant experience while designing. Grommet has extensive comprehensible documentation, but lacks hands-on support, but you can seek help in different ways. You can talk to the Grommet team on Slack, share feedback on this tool on GitHub and stay updated with recent news by following Grommet on Twitter. You can access a template library and read resources on codesandbox and Storybook. Offered by Segment, Evergreen is an amazing React UI library to help you create delightful software products. It's also a design system that offers you flexibility and does not limit you to a particular configuration, or needs obsolete integration. Evergreen facilitates building software products that can adapt to changing design needs. It offers a lot of features, components and many benefits to help you create user-friendly and powerful interfaces. If you want to build enterprise-grade web applications, then this will be a good option for you. Evergreen has a rich collection of guides, plugins, kits and tools to simplify designing your systems. You can also go to Evergreen's Figma Library and get the help you require. Rebass is a React-based UI component library that comes with a styled system. It's scalable, systematic and responsive, which businesses need. It was created by a front end developer, Brent Jackson, at Gatsby. This tool works with CSS-in-JavaScript libraries and doesn't require you to write CSS on your own into an app using a style object rather than an embedded CSS string. Therefore, you can develop code faster while adding your design elements and themes over Rebass primitives. Rebass offers detailed documentation on how to start the tool and use it. It also reacts as a guide to help developers extend and customize the components. When it comes to support, Rebass doesn't have any paid support. Mantine is a fully featured React UI components library that you can use to develop your web applications and sites at quick turnaround times. It's built to make your app accessible and flexible and comes with over 40 hooks and a hundred customizable components. This tool is open source and free, with its packages having the MIT license. It's based on TypeScript and supports several frameworks. 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