23 Best React UI Component Libraries And Frameworks

Originally published by Jonathan Saring on April 3rd 2018 280,303 reads

@ysaringJonathan Saring

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A curated summary of part 1 and part 2 of “Best React Component Libraries for 2019”.

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According to the Stack Overflow survey React grew in popularity by almost 150% from 2017 to 2018. This isn’t really surprising, and among other things is happening thanks to its growing component-based ecosystem.

Some prefer libraries, others to develop their own components (see tools for component workflow mastery). Either way, here is the full list of some of the best 23 UI component libraries and frameworks out there, with a bonus at the end. Note that the list isn’t ranked, but brought as a useful resource. Enjoy.

You can also combine these libraries with Bit, to make each component individually available to discover, share and use without the library.

Every component becomes available to discover, try hands-on in a live playground, and install in your projects using NPM and Yarn. You can even develop components from multiple projects and sync changes between them.

Bit (GitHub) can be used to discover and share components from any open source library, or for your team’s components, so feel free to give it a try.

Find more components from popular React libraries:

1. Material-UI

React components that implement Google’s Material Design. At over 45k Stars (!), it’s the most popular and widely used React UI library on GitHub.

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2. React Bootstrap

Bootstrap 3 components built with React. At 16k stars, this library remains popular and useful even though we are still waiting for bootstrap 4 support.

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3. Grommet

Beautiful React UI component which focus on essential experience. At over 5k stars, these components take pride in their simple yet beautiful design.

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4. Ant Design React

Popular React components following the Ant design guidelines and specifications, written in typescript and supporting a rich workflow.

5. Blueprint

A React-based UI toolkit for the web with over 9K stars and 100 contributors. Components are written in TS and styled with Sass for rapid development.

6. Reactstrap

This library provides simple React bootstrap 4 components. With over 4k stars and nearly 100 contributors, it’s a widely popular option for bootstrap fans.

7. React Toolbox

React Toolbox is a set of React components that implements Google Material Design. It’s built on top of some the trendiest proposals like CSS Modules (written in SASS), Webpack and ES6. At nearly 8K starts it’s very popular.

8. React Desktop

A UI component library which aims to bring a native desktop experience to the web, featuring many macOS Sierra and Windows 10 components.

9. Semantic UI

Semantic UI React is the official React integration for Semantic UI. With 6.5K stars it’s used by Netflix, Amazon and other great organizations.

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10. Onsen UI React

More than 100 components are specially made for Material and Flat design bringing together the Onsen UI framework and React to build hybrid apps.

11. Rebass

React UI component library & design system, built with styled-components and styled-system. With nearly 4k stars it’s a great choice for Styled-components fans.

12. Elemental UI

An experimental UI Toolkit for React.js Websites and Apps with 4k stars and currently developed by the authors of Keystone.js at the Thinkmill.

13. Belle

A set of React components optimized for mobile & desktop with highly customizable styles which can be configured on the base level as well individually for each one of them.

14. Prime React

At over 1000 stars, we love this project which provides a rich and unique selection of over 70 UI components with multiple themes. Take a look!

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15. Atlaskit

Atlasssian’s official React UI kit is the technical implementation of the Atlassian Design Guidelines (ADG). Each is even its own package.

16. Fabric

A set of React components for building experiences for Office and Office 365, written in Typescript. At over 2.5K stars it’s worth checking out (quick-start).

17. Carbon Components

React components according to IBM’s Carbon design system. You can also try them online with CodeSandBox.

18. Khan React Components

These somehow almost unnoticed components are Khan’s academy’s React UI components released to the community reaching nearly 1k stars.

19. Gestalt by Pinterest

This upcoming library is Pinterest’s design studio meticulous set of React UI building blocks used to sync and raise the bar among Pinterest’s teams.

20. Material Components Web

Developed by a team of engineers and designers at Google, this library replaced react-mdl, already reaching nearly 7k stars. Check it out.

21. React MD

A beautiful and highly recommended kit for building a web app with Google’s Material Design with very highly customizable themes and styling (Sass).

22. React Foundation

In very active development this project wraps parts of Foundation as React components, and takes pride in simplicity and high coverage. Very nice.

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23. React Virtualized

Pretty much the perfect set of React components for virtualizing large data sets. With nearly 10k stars it is popular as it is useful.

+5 Bonus ✨

Sadly, most of them aren’t actively maintained. Still worth checking out.

* React UWP

Microsoft’s UWP design with React.

* Amaze UI React

a React implementation for the china’s popular Amaze-UI cross-platform framework.

* UXCore

React components for enterprise back-end data apps.

* Zent

A beautiful under-the-radar Chinese React UI library.

* Halogen

Loaders and spinners only.

* React bootstrap with material design

Material Design for Bootstrap 4 — React version.

* react-selectrix

A beautiful, materialized and flexible React Select control.

* react-materialize

Not using libraries?

Adding entire libraries can be a burden and make it hard to change stuff on the fly. So, Individual components can be found in Awesome React and Awesome React components as well as here. Hope you enjoyed!

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