Why developers like Material-UI

What is Material-UI?

Material UI is a library of React UI components that implements Google's Material Design.

Material-UI is a tool in the Front-End Frameworks category of a tech stack.

Material-UI is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Material-UI's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Material-UI?

Companies

262 companies reportedly use Material-UI in their tech stacks, including medium.com, Scale, and SplitC.

medium.com

Scale

SplitC

UNIQLO

Braincube

Meisterplan

Digital Services

Capgemini

Tekion

Developers

1450 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Material-UI.

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My Stack

Personal Stack

Material-UI Integrations

Node.js, React, Next.js, styled-components, and Emotion are some of the popular tools that integrate with Material-UI. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Material-UI.

Node.js

React

Next.js

styled-components

Emotion

Divjoy

Shuffle

Devias Kit

Pros of Material-UI

138

React

Material Design

Ui components

CSS framework

Component

Looks great

Responsive

Good documentation

LESS

Open source

Ui component

Flexible

Code examples

JSS

Angular

Supports old browsers out of the box

Fun

Very accessible

Designed for Server Side Rendering

# of components

Interface

Easy to work with

Support for multiple styling systems

Typescript support

Css

Accessibility

Decisions about Material-UI

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Material-UI in their tech stack.

Osvaldo Ivani

Aug 10, 2023 | 4 upvotes · 5.6K views

Needs advice

Material-UI

and

react-md

Hi Everybody. I would have your advice about the use of Material-UI (https://m3.material.io/get-started) framework, taking into account that we have two products made with React (https://react.dev/) framework and considering that the team is very skillful in REACT and TS.

What do you think about adding Material framework (because a designer asks for it) in a very strong REACT and TS ecosystem?

Thanks in advance for your help! 🤓

Chauncey Kelly

Software Engineer at West Bend Mutual Insurance · Mar 30, 2023 | 4 upvotes · 38.6K views

Needs advice

Flowbite

and

Material-UI

I'm looking for a library that can allow customization, relatively low effort integration with TypeScript, and ability to bring business users into the design process with a tool like Figma design. We are developing our own SDK for quick dev setup through Open API and build with Webpack and mustache templates. I know Flowbite comes with Typescript definition files out of the box but not nearly as supported as Material-UI. I need to understand what additional work having something that definitely will have long term support like Material UI converted into Typescript vs Flowbite that will have less support, but a typescript definition file out of the box, and what customizing components will do to the type definition files.

Rose Mwangi

Software Engineer at na · Jul 6, 2022 | 2 upvotes · 65.2K views

Needs advice

Material-UI

and

Tailwind CSS

Can I use Material-UI and Tailwind CSS together with Next?

ashanannapaneni0319

Dec 14, 2021 | 2 upvotes · 48.5K views

Needs advice

Material-UI

and

React Storybook

Material-UI and React Story Board UI which one is better to create a New Product application.

sleepycatzzz

Apr 20, 2021 | 4 upvotes · 516K views

Needs advice

Material-UI

and

reactstrap

My React website is a simple 5-pager that attaches to a database to store and display registrations and other data. The user (small user base) can change any form elements, but I don't need theme-ing, though that would be fun for the user. reactstrap/react-bootstrap built on Bootstrap 4 sounds dated. I am familiar with reactstrap, but a friend said to try Material-UI. The thought of learning it is interesting, but somehow I think it might be overkill. So... reactstrap, react-bootstrap, or Material UI, which should I use?

Tshepo Mohlatlole

Director at DevMania · Mar 1, 2021 | 2 upvotes · 84.2K views

Needs advice

Material-UI

and

Tailwind CSS

I am currently working on a web application, and I am using Material-UI. The problem is that I always find myself in a situation where I have to override styles from material-UI, and I have to write a lot of CSS

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Material-UI's Features

Tables
Forms
Snackbars
Buttons
Theming

Material-UI Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Material-UI?

Kendo UI

Fast, light, complete: 70+ jQuery-based UI widgets in one powerful toolset. AngularJS integration, Bootstrap support, mobile controls, offline data solution.

Flat UI

Flat UI is a beautiful theme for Bootstrap. We have redesigned many of its components to look flat in every pixel.

Ant Design

An enterprise-class UI design language and React-based implementation. Graceful UI components out of the box, base on React Component. A npm + webpack + babel + dora + dva development framework.

react-md

React MD is Google's Material Design specifications implemented with Sass and React. The goal of the project is to create components that adhere to the Material Design specifications.

Angular Material

Sprint from Zero to App. Hit the ground running with comprehensive, modern UI components that work across the web, mobile and desktop. It allows to create material styled angular apps fast and easy.

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