The best UI React frameworks to create a sublime web app!

6 Best React UI Frameworks and kits for 2021

The really great thing about UI frameworks is that it respects design laws that not every web developer is aware of. It’s totally normal because we developers learn to code and use our mind’s skills, not our artistic skills.

When using this framework, you don’t need to care about simple yet effective behaviors like the button hover effect.

Here is my top list for React UI tools:

#1- Material UI

This is one of my favorites. This framework provides your React app with components already ready for faster and easier web development. You can build your own design system or start with Material Design. (By the way, this is strongly inspired by Material UI of Google)

How to include and use it? nothing simple than that:

Install it:

• Either by installing the package with NPM or Yarn or another tool.
• Or using CDN (you need to make sure your app is always online. Otherwise, you’ll see an ugly app 😣)

I personally prefer the first option. You’re free even without the internet. You have a beautiful app with Material UI components.

Use it:

As I said earlier, it’s a package full of react components. Like a box of lego 😂 you choose (import it) your component (a button, for example) and place it on your page. Simple! (Ah, I loooove simplicity 😍)

The doc is well done, too, so that’s a + too!

#2- Ant Design for React

A React UI library antd that contains a set of high-quality components and demos for building rich, interactive user interfaces.

It comes with interesting features:

• 🌈 Enterprise-class UI designed for web applications.
• 📦 A set of high-quality React components out of the box.
• 🛡 Written in TypeScript with predictable, static types.
• ⚙️ Whole package of design resources and development tools.
• 🌍 Internationalization support for dozens of languages.
• 🎨 Powerful theme customization in every detail

Want to try it?

• Install it

npm install antd
// Or
yarn add antd

• Import the style sheets in your index.html

import 'antd/dist/antd.css'; // or 'antd/dist/antd.less'

• Use it

import { DatePicker } from 'antd';  

ReactDOM.render(<DatePicker />, mountNode);

What I personally love in this UI component is the components overview. It clarifies what a component looks like and presents it intuitively that when coding, you don't waste time looking for details before using it.

I looove its documentation simplicity and clarity

#3- Semantic UI

This framework helps create beautiful, responsive layouts using human-friendly HTML. Classes use syntax from natural languages like noun/modifier relationships, word order, and plurality to link concepts intuitively.

Example of what they mean by natural languages

I love their layout rich examples:

How to install and use it?

#4- React admin

Are you building a B2B (business to business) business? Then, this framework may be the best for your case. React admin uses modern React and Material Design. Your first admin can be created with really few lines of code.

The community edition is open source so that you can use it for free.

Here is where to go to install and use it:

What I really love about it is the demo page. It provides you with complete working web apps with source code such as e-commerce app, CRM app, Blog, and much more. Here is where to go to see the demos:

#5- Shards React

Modern UI kit built from scratch, which makes its code high in quality. It follows modern development best practices. It is also geared toward fast performance. Again in the same logic of components. It comes with many React components that can be used immediately and fasten your app UI design creation.

The documentation is good as well, but I’m a bit disappointed since, at the time of writing this article, the doc was inaccessible due to some errors.

That’s not professional since the website is in production, but I don’t know what happened, and I hate to judge people. Anyway, it’s a good UI kit that I’ll definitely try someday.

#6- Material KIT React

I’ve already had the opportunity to work with Creative Tim UI kits. It’s really professional and clean.

To get started with it, here is where to go:

Final thoughts…

I learned so far from UI frameworks that the more they are rich, the more they weigh. Personally, I’m not too fond of the idea of carrying a box of legos where I need only 10 legos.

If you are building a small web app, then you may need to consider what do you need exactly and not if a UI design pleases your eyes or not. Unless if you don’t care letting components you arent’ using in your app.

What do you think about these UI kits? Did you use any of them? Which one do you recommend the most and why?

I’d really really love to hear and learn from you ❤

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