10 Best React UI Frameworks / Libraries 2020
Tags: react, webdev, javascript, a
Published: 2020-08-06 12:11:55

This post was originally published at <a href="https://www.devaradise.com/best-react-ui-frameworks-libraries">https://www.devaradise.com/best-react-ui-frameworks-libraries</a>

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<p>React UI Framework (also known as React UI Library or React UI Kit) is a collection of pre-defined and built-in React UI components with a certain design system.</p>
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<p>It helps developers to create a React application faster and easier. React UI library is similar but not the same with the <a href="https://www.devaradise.com/best-react-admin-templates">React admin templates for Webapp</a> that I discussed before.</p>
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<p>They both ease the work of the developer, but they have different scope. A React UI Kit can be used to develop any kind of application, and its customization usually easier.</p>
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<p>On the other side, React templates are usually themed for a certain type of application. It can be an admin template, landing page template, or e-commerce template.</p>
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<h2>When should you use a React UI Framework?</h2>
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<p>Just because it looks cool to use a React UI framework doesn't mean you have to always use it every time you develop a project.</p>
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<p>Using a React UI Library will be best if you're in this condition:</p>
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<ol><li>You don't have much time to develop your React project.</li><li>There is no fixed design for your app, so you should design your own app but you don't want to spend much time on styling.</li><li>You like the design system of a React UI Library and want to adopt it into your app with a little or no customization.</li></ol>
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<p>Using a React UI Framework is not recommended if you have a fixed design for your app and you know that you will need a lot of customization. A CSS Framework like <a aria-label="undefined (opens in a new tab)" href="https://tailwindcss.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tailwind</a> will be the best for that case.</p>
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<p>However, if you still want to use a React UI Framework even when you know there will be some customization, I would suggest that you use its CSS Framework version.</p>
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<p>Some of React UI Libraries like Reactstrap and Semantic UI are built based on existing CSS frameworks. </p>
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<p>In my experience, customizing a CSS framework is easier than customizing a React UI framework. It's because a CSS framework only affects components based on a class, while components of a React UI framework are predefined as React components with their own props.</p>
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<h2>What Are the Best React UI Frameworks / Libraries 2020?</h2>
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<p>There are a lot of React UI libraries out there. But, you only need the best of them to use it on your project.</p>
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<p>Here, i collate the best and most popular UI libraries for React.js. Just choose one that suits your project.</p>
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<h3>1. Material-UI</h3>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://www.devaradise.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/material-ui-1.jpg"><img src="https://www.devaradise.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/material-ui-1-1024x531.jpg" alt="Material UI - Most popular React UI Framework" class="wp-image-2545"/></a></figure>
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<p>Material UI is the most popular React UI Framework with a material design style.  It provides a lot of React components for faster and easier web development. </p>
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<p>You can build your own design system, or start with Material Design.</p>
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<p>Material-UI has been widely used by React developers to adopt the Material design to their app. It is the best framework to use if you want to create a Material Design app easily.</p>
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<p>In fact, there are some react templates that built on top of this framework such as <a aria-label="undefined (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.wrappixel.com/templates/materialpro-react-redux-admin/?ref=121" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">MaterialPro</a> and <a aria-label="undefined (opens in a new tab)" href="https://flatlogic.com/templates/react-material-admin-full?ref=MzuCjKrsQy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">Material Admin</a>.</p>
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<a href="https://material-ui.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" class="demo-link">Go to Material-UI site</a>
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<h3>2. React Bootstrap &amp; Reactstrap</h3>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://www.devaradise.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/react-strap-1-1024x531.jpg" alt="Reactstrap - Based on popular Bootstrap framework" class="wp-image-2541"/></figure>
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<p>As you might know, Bootstrap is the most popular CSS framework widely used by <a href="https://www.devaradise.com/how-to-become-front-end-developer">Front-end developers</a>.</p>
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<p>However, Bootstrap is dependent on Jquery. So, if you want to use Bootstrap components in your react project, you should also import jquery and bootstrap js files, which is not a best practice.</p>
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<p>React Bootstrap and Reactstrap come to solve this problem. They are 2 different React UI libraries, but they are based on the popular Bootstrap framework.</p>
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<p>They adopt every component in the original Bootstrap framework as a React component. So, you don't have to import Jquery and Bootstrap js files to your project.</p>
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<p>Choose one of them if you want to use Bootstrap components in your React project!</p>
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<a href="https://react-bootstrap.github.io/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" class="demo-link">Go to React Bootstrap site</a>
<a href="https://react-bootstrap.github.io/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" class="download-link">Go to Reactstrap site</a>
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<h3>3. Ant Design</h3>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://www.devaradise.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ant-design.jpg"><img src="https://www.devaradise.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ant-design.jpg" alt="Ant Design - Wolrd's second react ui framework" class="wp-image-2530"/></a></figure>
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<p>Ant Design is the world's second most popular React UI framework with a design system for enterprise-level products.</p>
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<p>It is an open-source React UI library with 62k+ stars &amp; 23k+ forks on Github that still open for contribution. It has a sleek design, a lot of UI components, and very well documented.</p>
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<a href="https://ant.design/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" class="demo-link">Go to Ant Design site</a>
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<h3>4. Semantic UI React</h3>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://www.devaradise.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/semantic-ui-1.jpg"><img src="https://www.devaradise.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/semantic-ui-1-1024x531.jpg" alt="Semantic UI - React UI Kit" class="wp-image-2542"/></a></figure>
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<p>Originally, Semantic-UI is a UI framework designed for theming, like Bootstrap. Now, it has integrations with popular javascript frameworks: <strong>React, Angular, Meteor, Ember</strong>.</p>
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<p>Semantic-UI has 50+ UI elements, 3000+ CSS variables and 3 levels of variable inheritance. It also use Em unit for responsive design and flexbox friendly.</p>
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<p>When this post was written, Semantic-UI has more than 4.8k stars and 5k forks on Github. So, it quite popular and widely used by Frontend developers.</p>
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<a href="https://react.semantic-ui.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" class="demo-link">Go to Semantic UI site</a>
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<h3>5. React Desktop</h3>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://www.devaradise.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/react-desktop-2.jpg"><img src="https://www.devaradise.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/react-desktop-2-1024x531.jpg" alt="React desktop - React UI Kit with desktop-like design" class="wp-image-2548"/></a></figure>
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<p>As the name suggests, React Desktop is a React UI library that aims to bring native experience to the web, featuring many macOS Sierra and Windows 10 components.</p>
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<p>React Desktop is a great choice to create a cross-platform application that work on desktop and web. It also works perfectly <a href="http://nwjs.io/">NW.js</a> and <a href="http://electron.atom.io/">Electron.js</a>, but can be used in any JavaScript-powered project.</p>
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<p>With desktop-like UI kit, you can create a cross-platform react application faster and easier.</p>
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<a href="http://reactdesktop.js.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" class="demo-link">Go to React Desktop site</a>
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<h3>6. Elemental UI</h3>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://www.devaradise.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/elemental-ui-1.jpg"><img src="https://www.devaradise.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/elemental-ui-1-1024x531.jpg" alt="Elemental UI - React UI Kit for Web application" class="wp-image-2543"/></a></figure>
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<p>Elemental UI is a React UI kit with high quality and modular set of UI scaffolding components.</p>
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<p>It aims to to create a set of functional and unopinionated components that are useful on their own or together, with an unobtrusive default style and flexible theme capabilities.</p>
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<p>Currently, Elemental UI has 4.3k+ stars and 240+ forks on Github.</p>
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<a href="http://elemental-ui.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" class="demo-link">Go to Elemental UI site</a>
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<h3>7. Atlaskit</h3>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://www.devaradise.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/atlaskit.jpg"><img src="https://www.devaradise.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/atlaskit-1024x531.jpg" alt="Atlaskit - Atlassian official UI Library" class="wp-image-2531"/></a></figure>
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<p>Atlaskit is Atlassian's Official UI library that built with Atlassian Design Guidelines. It has very rich UI components that a web application needs.</p>
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<p>The best thing about Atlaskit is its modularity. You don't have to import all Atlaskit library to use its component. Just choose a package that very well <a aria-label="undefined (opens in a new tab)" href="https://atlaskit.atlassian.com/packages/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">documented here</a>, and import it to your project.</p>
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<a href="https://atlaskit.atlassian.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" class="demo-link">Go to Atlaskit site</a>
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<h3>8. Grommet</h3>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://www.devaradise.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/grommet-1.jpg"><img src="https://www.devaradise.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/grommet-1-1024x531.jpg" alt="Grommet - Responsive and mobile-first React UI Kit" class="wp-image-2544"/></a></figure>
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<p>Grommet is a responsive and mobile-first React UI kit built for Webapps with easy to use components library. It provides accessibility, modularity, responsiveness, and theming in a tidy package.</p>
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<p>Grommet can be implemented easily both for a new project and an existing project. You can use the <a aria-label="undefined (opens in a new tab)" href="https://github.com/grommet/grommet-starter-new-app" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">new app starter kit</a> or <a href="https://github.com/grommet/grommet-starter-existing-app">existing app starter kit</a> to implement Grommet on your project. </p>
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<p>Some fine companies like Netflix, Uber, Samsung, Github, etc are using Grommet for their project. So, you don't have to worry about its quality.</p>
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<a href="https://v2.grommet.io/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" class="demo-link">Go to Grommet site</a>
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<h3>9. Carbon Design System</h3>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://www.devaradise.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/carbon-design-system.jpg"><img src="https://www.devaradise.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/carbon-design-system-1024x531.jpg" alt="Carbon design system by IBM" class="wp-image-2532"/></a></figure>
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<p>Carbon is an open-source design system for digital products and experiences developed by IBM with its design language.</p>
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<p>The Carbon design system aims to improve UI consistency and quality, making the development process more efficient and focused, establishing a shared vocabulary between designer and developer, and providing clear, discoverable guidance around design and development best practices.</p>
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<p>It is built in React first, but it also supports core parts of the system in <a href="https://www.carbondesignsystem.com/get-started/develop/vanilla" target="_blank" aria-label="undefined (opens in a new tab)" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">vanilla JS</a>, <a href="https://www.carbondesignsystem.com/get-started/develop/angular" target="_blank" aria-label="undefined (opens in a new tab)" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">Angular</a>, and <a href="https://www.carbondesignsystem.com/get-started/develop/vue" target="_blank" aria-label="undefined (opens in a new tab)" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">Vue</a>.</p>
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<a href="https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" class="demo-link">Go to Carbon design system site</a>
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<h3>10. PrimeReact</h3>
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<p>PrimeReact is an open-source React UI library with a collection of 70+ UI components. It developed by PrimeTek Informatics, a vendor with years of expertise in developing open source UI solutions.</p>
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<p>It is a complete UI framework for React that provides various input components, buttons, panel, data view &amp; list, charts, etc.</p>
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<a href="https://www.primefaces.org/primereact" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" class="demo-link">Go to PrimeReact site</a>
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<p>That's all.</p>
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<p>Do you know other React UI Frameworks that worth to mention here? Feel free to comment it below!</p>
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<p>Happy coding!</p>
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