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Top 8 React Component Libraries You Should Know

When building React apps, you don’t have to start everything from scratch. Instead of creating every button, modal, or dropdown manually, you can use React component libraries, collections of ready-made components that are tested, accessible, and easy to customize.

In this post, I’ll share 8 powerful React component libraries you should explore.

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Now, let’s jump right into it!

ShadCN

Best for: Tailwind users who want beautiful, customizable components

Why it’s popular:

  • Built with Radix UI + Tailwind CSS
  • Clean design, dark mode, and flexible theming
  • Easily composable and developer-friendly

MUI (Material UI)

Best for: Apps following Google’s Material Design

Why it’s popular:

  • Huge collection of components
  • Great theme support and accessibility
  • Used in enterprise-level projects

Chakra UI

Best for: Beginners and devs who love writing clean UI fast

Why it’s popular:

  • Simple syntax using style props
  • Built-in accessibility
  • Easy to customize and responsive by default

Radix UI

Best for: Custom UIs with full styling control

Why it’s popular:

  • Unstyled, so you can style it however you like
  • Handles accessibility and keyboard interactions for you
  • Great for building your own design system

Headless UI

Best for: Tailwind CSS users who want logic but no styling

Why it’s popular:

  • Built by the creators of Tailwind
  • Headless components: just logic, no styles
  • Perfect if you want complete design freedom

Ant Design

Best for: Dashboards and internal tools

Why it’s popular:

  • Clean and professional UI
  • Lots of advanced components (tables, forms, modals, etc.)
  • Internationalization and enterprise-ready

HeroUI

Best for: Sleek, fast, and animated interfaces

Why it’s popular:

  • Built with React and Tailwind
  • Great performance and SSR-ready
  • Modern design and dark mode support

Mantine

Best for: Full-featured projects that need flexibility

Why it’s popular:

  • 120+ components and 50+ hooks
  • Supports both CSS-in-JS and plain CSS
  • Great dev experience and built-in dark mode

Wrapping Up

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