When building React apps, you don’t have to start everything from scratch. Instead of creating every button, modal, or dropdown manually, you can use React component libraries, collections of ready-made components that are tested, accessible, and easy to customize.
In this post, I’ll share 10 powerful React component libraries you should explore.
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ShadCN
Best for: Tailwind users who want beautiful, customizable components
Why it’s popular:
- Built with Radix UI + Tailwind CSS
- Clean design, dark mode, and flexible theming
- Easily composable and developer-friendly
MUI (Material UI)
Best for: Apps following Google’s Material Design
Why it’s popular:
- Huge collection of components
- Great theme support and accessibility
- Used in enterprise-level projects
Chakra UI
Best for: Beginners and devs who love writing clean UI fast
Why it’s popular:
- Simple syntax using style props
- Built-in accessibility
- Easy to customize and responsive by default
Radix UI
Best for: Custom UIs with full styling control
Why it’s popular:
- Unstyled, so you can style it however you like
- Handles accessibility and keyboard interactions for you
- Great for building your own design system
Headless UI
Best for: Tailwind CSS users who want logic but no styling
Why it’s popular:
- Built by the creators of Tailwind
- Headless components: just logic, no styles
- Perfect if you want complete design freedom
Ant Design
Best for: Dashboards and internal tools
Why it’s popular:
- Clean and professional UI
- Lots of advanced components (tables, forms, modals, etc.)
- Internationalization and enterprise-ready
HeroUI
Best for: Sleek, fast, and animated interfaces
Why it’s popular:
- Built with React and Tailwind
- Great performance and SSR-ready
- Modern design and dark mode support
Mantine
Best for: Full-featured projects that need flexibility
Why it’s popular:
- 120+ components and 50+ hooks
- Supports both CSS-in-JS and plain CSS
- Great dev experience and built-in dark mode
React Bootstrap
Best for: Projects already using Bootstrap
Why it’s popular:
- Bring Bootstrap to React
- Easy to use and familiar to many teams
- Great for MVPs and quick prototypes
Evergreen
Best for: Admin dashboards and internal apps
Why it’s popular:
- Made by Segment for internal tools
- Clean, consistent design
- Easy to extend and customize
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