Chetan Atrawalkar

Posted on Aug 3, 2021 • Edited on Aug 4, 2021

✨25+ Top React UI Component Library [2021]

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React is an open-source JavaScript library that assists you with building a top interface for both web & mobile applications. It combines efficiently with other JavaScript frameworks and libraries.
It is 2021 now and React.js is the world’s most popular Javascript web frontend library.

🤔 How do React UI Component libraries work?

React has a growing range of support libraries, especially the UI Component libraries. These libraries save us a lot of time and effort when building beautiful, modern React apps. They provide many out of the box components such as icon sets, buttons, date time picker, form input, calendar, menu, pagination, card, and many more.

In this article will cover the most popular React UI libraries that helpful in your next project. If this article useful don't forget to like.

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1. Reakit

Reakit is a Low level component library for building accessible high level UI libraries, design systems and applications with React.
Reakit components are unstyled by default in the core library. Each component returns a single HTML element that accepts all HTML props, including className and style.

2. Reactjs-popup

Reactjs-popup is a simple React popup component that help you create simple and complex Modals, Tooltips and Menus for your next React App.
Function as children pattern to take control over your popup anywhere in your code 💪.

3. Base Web

Base Web is a foundation for initiating, evolving, and unifying web applications.
It's an open source toolkit of React components and utilities that align with the Base Design System–essentially, the designs translated into code.

4. Theme UI

Theme UI is a library for creating themeable user interfaces based on constraint-based design principles.
Build custom component libraries, design systems, web applications, Gatsby themes, and more with a flexible API for best-in-class developer ergonomics.

5. Mantine

Mantine is a fully featured React components and hooks library.
Build fully functional accessible web applications with ease – Mantine includes more than 100 customizable components and hooks to cover you in any situation.

6. Geist UI

Geist UI is a React implementation for styles originating from Vercel's design.
Geist UI is an open-source design system for building modern websites and applications.

7. Reach UI

Reach UI seeks to become the accessible foundation of your React-based design system.
Each component is tested with Safari + VoiceOver, Firefox + NVDA, and Edge + JAWS. As the project matures we’ll get it audited by WebAIM to ensure that if you pick Reach UI, your app has a solid, accessible foundation.

8. Fluent UI

Fluent UI comes from Microsoft and is not only available as a React package but also as Web Components and native libraries for iOS, macOS, Android and Windows.
It has components for building forms and lists but also offers very specific ones like a PeoplePicker for example.

9. Headless UI

Headless UI is a set of completely unstyled, fully accessible UI components, designed to integrate beautifully with Tailwind CSS.

10. Elastic UI

The Elastic UI Framework is a collection of React UI components for quickly building user interfaces at Elastic.
It distributes UI React components and static assets for use in building web layouts.

11. React Admin

The React Admin UI component framework is suitable for building business-to-business (B2B) admin applications on top of REST/GraphQL APIs and is customizable by design.
It’s built with a number of well known projects in addition to React: Material UI, React Router, Redux, and React Final Form. The latter is a popular form state management solution.

12. React Toolbox

React Toolbox UI component library that you can use to implement Google’s material design principles in your project.
React Toolbox provides visitors with an in-browser editor where you can experiment with the components in real-time.

13. React Desktop

React Desktop uses macOS, Sierra and Windows 10 components with the aim of bringing a native desktop experience to the web.
This collection is a JavaScript library built on top of Facebook’s React library and it’s compatible with any JavaScript based project.

14. Reactstrap

Reactstrap it is comes with two primary distribution versions. One, a basic version that excludes optional dependencies. This gives you more flexibility in configuring required dependencies.
The second version is the full version that includes all the optional dependencies. This one is recommended for smaller applications.

15. React Virtualized

React Virtualized in this library includes numerous components for efficiently rendering large lists, tables and grids.
For example, you’ll find masonry, columns, autosizers, direction sorters, window scrollers and more.

16. Shards React

Shards React is an open source, modern React UI kit that’s built from scratch and geared towards fast performance.
This component library is based on Shards, and uses React Datepicker, React Popper (a positioning engine) and noUIShlider. It supports Material and Fontawesome icons.

17. React Suite

React Suite contains a range of component libraries for enterprise system products. It supports all major browsers and platforms as well as server-side rendering.
The components in this library include icons, loaders, dividers, tooltips and more.

18. PrimeReact

PrimeReact it is provides components to cover almost all basic interface requirements such as input options, menus, data presentation, messages and more.
It pays attention to mobile experience, too, with touch-optimized responsive design elements. There are a number of templates and themes that allow you to customize and choose between flat and material design.

19. React Bootstrap

React Bootstrap is a UI kit that retains it’s Bootstrap core.
In order to give you more control over the form and function of each component, it replaces Bootstrap’s JavaScript with React.
Each component is built to be easily accessible, important for front-end framework building.

20. Ant Design for React

Ant Design for React this UI library is a design system for enterprise-level products.
It’s based on the Ant Design project and contains a set of high quality components and demos for building rich, interactive UIs.

21. Material-UI

Material-UI ranks among the most popular React UI component libraries.
A wide range of helpful components are available, like app bars, auto complete, badges, buttons, cards, dialog boxes, icons, menus, sliders and more.

22. Storybook

Storybook has been popular for some time now. It isn’t exactly a component library itself but is an open source tool for developing UI components in isolation for React.

23. Blueprint

Blueprint are primarily for use on desktop applications.
These components are particularly suitable for building complex and data-dense interfaces.

24. Grommet

Grommet has a wide library of components in its kit and counts big names like Netflix and Boeing among its users.
Whether your app is for phones or for wider screens displays, you’ll be able to design layouts.

25. Evergreen

Evergreen contains a set of React components that’s suitable for enterprise grade web applications.
It includes a wide range of components and tools starting from basic layouts, typography, colors and icons to function-based components such as dropdowns, toggles, file uploads and feedback indicators.

26. Semantic UI React

Semantic UI uses human-friendly HTML for it’s development framework, and has integrations with React, Angular, Meteor, Ember and many other frameworks.
It allows you to load any Semantic UI CSS theme on top of your Semantic UI React app.

27. Argon Design System React

Argon Design System React library offers a free design system for Bootstrap 4, React, and Reactstrap.
The Argon Design System offers pre-built example pages and a handful of variations for all the components such as colors, styles, hover, and focus.

28. Rebass

Rebass contains only eight foundational components, all in a super-small file. The components are extensible and themable, and built for responsive web design.

29. Arwes

Arwes looks really cool. It's a sci-Fi UI library that even offers beep sounds for your interactions.
It has really fancy animated effects for the components and a super unique spaceship look.

Conclusion 👋.

These are just some libraries that I found on GitHub during my research but I am sure there are a lot more very good ones that are less popular. I am still not sure what's the best choice for our project but I tend to use Mantine.

🙏 Please share your valuable feedback in comment section which is yours favourite library and which library you used in daily basis to improve your UI and productivity.

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Top comments (11)

HaQadosch • Aug 3 '21 • Edited

nice one for Arwes :)
Also please note that Blueprint might be problematic as it belongs to palantir:

From politico.eu/article/uk-trade-depar...

The firm, founded in 2014, is also controversial because its co-founder, PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel, was an adviser and financial backer of Donald Trump during his 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. In 2009, Thiel wrote that he “no longer believe[s] that freedom and democracy are compatible.” He also condemns “confiscatory taxes” that support government programs. The company also had a hand in building the intrusive global surveillance capabilities of the U.S. National Security Agency.

and From: theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/02/...

But Palantir polarised opinion in the US before the backlash against big tech. Its critics do not focus on the fortune its founder Thiel made with PayPal or as an early investor in Facebook but on his support for Trump. Palantir has faced protests in the US over its role in facilitating the Trump administration’s mass deportation of undocumented migrants through its contract with US immigration enforcement agency ICE.
Palantir was also reported to have been involved in discussions over a campaign of disinformation and cyberattacks directed against WikiLeaks and journalists such as Glenn Greenwald. It later insisted that the project was never put into effect and said its association with smear tactics had “served as a teachable moment”.
And Palantir was willing to step in at the Pentagon after Google employees rebelled over its involvement in Project Maven, which seeks to use AI in battlefield targeting.