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Chakra UI vs Shoelace: What are the differences?
Developers describe Chakra UI as "Modular and accessible UI components for React apps". It is a simple, modular and accessible component library that gives you all the building blocks you need to build your React applications. On the other hand, Shoelace is detailed as "*A forward-thinking library of web components *". It is a collection of professionally designed, everyday UI components built on a framework-agnostic technology.
Chakra UI and Shoelace can be primarily classified as "UI Components" tools.
Some of the features offered by Chakra UI are:
- Ease of Styling
- Flexible & composable
- Dark Mode
On the other hand, Shoelace provides the following key features:
- Works with all frameworks
- Works with CDNs
- Fully customizable with CSS
Chakra UI is an open source tool with 8.76K GitHub stars and 572 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Chakra UI's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Chakra UI
- Typescript Support7
- Accessibility4
- Responsiveness4
- Good documentation3
Pros of Shoelace
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Cons of Chakra UI
- Hard to customise2
- Styling system1
- # of components1
- Inflexible token structure1
