NativeBase VS Material UI

Gluestack, like any other customizable UI library, is built to make styling less cumbersome. It comprises a set of themed and unstyled components easily integrated across different platforms and devices. Originally, Gluestack was a part of NativeBase, a component library for both React and React Native. With performance and maintainability in mind, NativeBase was split into two parts, focusing on a universal CSS-in-JS library and an independent set of unstyled components. Gluestack has several advantages, some of which are:

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Just like the other libraries mentioned in this article, Gluestack is another unstyled component library. Originally a part of NativeBase, the developer team created this library to prevent bloat and enhance maintainability of the project.

KumaUI : Another relatively new contender, Kuma uses zero runtime CSS-in-JS to create headless UI components which allows a lot of flexibility. It was heavily inspired by other zero runtime CSS-in-JS solutions such as PandaCSS, Vanilla Extract, and Linaria, as well as by Styled System, ChakraUI, and Native Base. ### Vue

Some that also come up are: * https://github.com/akveo/react-native-ui-kitten * https://github.com/draftbit/react-native-jigsaw/tree/master/packages/ui * https://github.com/callstack/react-native-paper * https://github.com/GeekyAnts/NativeBase * https://github.com/react-native-elements/react-native-elements

You can see timeline of that here: https://github.com/GeekyAnts/NativeBase/issues/4302

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You'll be glad to hear that MUI is zeroing in (pun intended) on a zero runtime solution right now as an alternative to Emotion [0], although that GitHub issue doesn't capture just how far it has come. Expect more soon!

[0] https://github.com/mui/material-ui/issues/38137

GitHub stars: 89.3k GitHub link: https://github.com/mui/material-ui Documentation: https://mui.com/material-ui/getting-started/

With GitHub stars of 88K(August 2023) and weekly NPM downloads of 2.9 million(August 2023), MUI is one of the most popular React UI libraries in the world.

MUI is a collection of UI tools and component libraries that helps you bring great designs to life in no time. The most popular of these is MUI Core.

The most popular library of the ones created by MUI preferred by developers to design components is Material UI. It's an open-source project that has amassed more than 88K stars on GitHub as of August 2023.

Material UI has tests for each of their components, using RTL.

Check out https://github.com/mui/material-ui/tree/master/examples/material-next and the extensive official Next.js examples https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/examples