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Top 10 UI library your ultimate weapon for development in 2025!

#webdev #ui #tailwindcss #react

As a Full-Stack developer I can feel a pain of developer to design and develop website with consistent theme and responsive design. With bunch of .CSS file mass of class id and CSS code still using old style to build website which often stuck and not responsive. You adopted modern JavaScript framework like React, Vue.js, Next.js, Angular but lagging in styling or just using TailwindCSS for style. It’s time to shift gear to fastrack your development with UI libraries.

1. Shadcn UI

Github: shadcn-ui/ui

Shadcn UI is one the favorite UI library of mine. With over 94k stars on GitHub show how much it is popular among the developers. Shadcn theme A set of beautifully designed, accessible components and a code distribution platform. Works with your favorite frameworks. Open Source. Open Code.

Pros:

  1. Truly open source: Licensed under MIT, no hidden restrictions.

  2. Works across React frameworks (Next.js, Remix, etc.).

  3. Highly customizable: You can tweak them as needed.

  4. Modern + Accessible: Components are built with accessibility in mind.

  5. TailwindCSS-first: Perfect if you’re already using Tailwind.

  6. Clean, developer-friendly design: Not bloated with unused styles or features.

2 . Material UI

Github: mui/material-ui

Material UI brings of all our loved Google material design into your hands. More that 96k stars on GitHub with dynamic style make it even more loved among us. It’s comprehensive and can be used in production out of the box. You can start with npm package npm install @mui/material @emotion/react @emotion/styled enjoy the building your app.

Pros:

  1. Massive component library: Almost everything you need.

  2. Production-ready: Trusted by thousands of companies.

  3. Customizable themes: You can easily match it with your brand’s colors/typography.

  4. Strong documentation + community: Tons of guides and active GitHub contributors.

  5. Responsive by default: The grid and layout system is highly reliable for building responsive apps.

3. Chakra UI

Github: chakra-ui/chakra-ui

Chakra UI is like butter with React. Easy, simple, and developer-friendly. With 35k+ stars, it gives you clean, accessible, and composable components — no headache. It’s like one chakra you activate in your development. You can install via npm @chakra-ui/react.

Pros:

  1. Out of the box dark mode support.

  2. Styled-system based, highly customizable.

  3. Accessible by default.

  4. Small learning curve, good for beginners.

4. Magic UI

Github: magicuidesign/magicui

UI library for Design Engineers to reduce their pain in manully creating awsome animation. Magic UI just like it’s name it works like magic smoothly in you website. The main reason I love to use magic Ui is it’s awsome animation and effect. Try it by yourself.

  1. Pre-built animations + components.

  2. Tailwind-based, easy to integrate.

  3. Perfect for landing pages and modern SaaS.

  4. Lightweight.

5. Aceternity UI

Github: Not available

If you want modern motion + Tailwind components, Aceternity UI is the place. It’s like copy–paste and your landing page looks premium. Perfect for startups, portfolios, SaaS apps. Loved to use in landing page of website.

  1. Tailwind + Framer Motion based.

  2. Beautiful animations, ready to use.

  3. Great for landing pages, hero sections, pricing, testimonials.

  4. Free + open source.

6. Ant Design

Github: ant-design/ant-design

From Alibaba team, Ant Design is full power. Over 92k+ stars. It feels more enterprise-level, perfect if you are building dashboards, CRMs, admin panels.

  1. Huge set of polished components.

  2. Best for enterprise apps.

  3. Great form controls and data display.

  4. Excellent documentation.

7. React-Bootstrap

Github: react-bootstrap/react-bootstrap

Old is gold. We loved bootstrap when we were using it with plain css and HTML. Bootstrap still rules the frontend, and React-Bootstrap makes it React-ready. 22k+ stars, very stable.

  1. Based on Bootstrap 5, fully responsive.

  2. Easy for quick prototypes.

  3. Large community and docs.

  4. Minimal config, just start coding.

8. React-Bits

Github: teambit/bit

Not exactly a UI library, but a component platform. Bit helps you share, reuse, and sync React components like a pro. Think of it as your private UI library builder. But one of my favorites.

Pros:

  1. Build your own UI kit easily.

  2. Share components across projects.

  3. Works with React, Vue, Angular.

  4. Great for teams and scaling apps.

9. Mantine UI

Github: mantinedev/ui.mantine.dev

Build your next website even faster with premade responsive components designed and built by Mantine maintainers and community. All components are free forever for everyone. Mantine is underrated but very powerful. 23k+ stars on GitHub. It comes with 120+ components, hooks, and full TypeScript support.

Pros:

  1. 120+ components and useful hooks.

  2. Full TypeScript support.

  3. Built-in theming and color scheme management.

  4. Comes with rich UI features like modals, notifications, tooltips.

  5. Strong documentation and active community.

10. Hero UI

Github: heroui-inc/heroui

Hero wow right! it’s really hero in some case to make you feel light in coding your frontend. HeroUI is modern, lightweight, and built on top of Tailwind + React. Clean components, easy to use, and feels premium out of the box.

Pros:

  1. Tailwind-first, integrates smoothly with React.

  2. Beautiful, production-ready components.

  3. Dark mode support out of the box.

  4. Lightweight and fast.

  5. Easy customization with utility classes.

Bonus:

11. Untitled UI React

Github: Not avialable

The newest React library on this list, Untitled UI React is the world’s largest collection of open-source React components built with Tailwind CSS v4.1, TypeScript, and React Aria.

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