create-react-app vs Material UI

create-react-app

Set up a modern web app by running one command. (by facebook)

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create-react-app.dev

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Material UI

Ready-to-use foundational React components, free forever. It includes Material UI, which implements Google's Material Design. (by mui)

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create-react-app		Material UI
	Project
576	Mentions	290
101,923	Stars	91,692
0.2%	Growth	0.5%
1.5	Activity	10.0
4 days ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
JavaScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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create-react-app

Posts with mentions or reviews of create-react-app. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-29.

Top 12+ Battle-Tested React Boilerplates for 2024
5 projects | dev.to | 29 Apr 2024

Create React App (CRA) abstracts away the complexity of configuring Webpack, Babel, and other build tools, allowing developers to focus on writing React code. It includes features such as hot module reloading for efficient development.
Integration of Angular, Vue.js and React with .NET: Creating a Modern Web Experience
2 projects | dev.to | 10 Apr 2024

Immerse yourself in the official Create React App documentation for a deeper understanding.
Free Resources Every Web Developer Should Know About
15 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024

Create React App (https://create-react-app.dev/)
Learn CSS Layout the Pedantic Way
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024

- And ofc, there are some templates/frameworks that bring something of that together (https://create-react-app.dev/; maybe https://vitejs.dev/) - google for templates.
I recommend finding some friend with modern experience or at least some youtube tutorials or at least some learning course. That would help you to catch up on the best way to bootstrap your first project. Then you can practice.
React Labs: What We've Been Working On – February 2024 – React Compiler
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024

What's the connection?
Also, take a look at this response from 2021: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/discussions/117...
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1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Feb 2024
Getting Started with React: An Introduction and Setup Guide
2 projects | dev.to | 12 Jan 2024

Create React App Documentation
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1 project | dev.to | 11 Jan 2024
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5 projects | dev.to | 5 Jan 2024

Inside the react-tutorial-app folder, to create a new React project runs the following command using create-react-appand for more details on how create-react-app works and other staff, please visit the official website: https://create-react-app.dev/
🌟 Unleashing React Code Splitting: The Epic Guide! 🚀
1 project | dev.to | 23 Dec 2023

Before we embark on our journey, make sure you have React installed and a React project set up. If not, fear not! Create React App is your trusty sidekick for a quick start.

Material UI

Posts with mentions or reviews of Material UI. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-05.

Zero-runtime CSS-in-JS implementation
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jan 2024
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10 projects | dev.to | 5 Jan 2024

🔍 Site ⭐ GitHub
StyleX – Meta's Styling Library
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2023

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
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9 projects | dev.to | 13 Nov 2023

GitHub stars: 89.3k GitHub link: https://github.com/mui/material-ui Documentation: https://mui.com/material-ui/getting-started/
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12 projects | dev.to | 15 Aug 2023

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.
10 Best Free React UI Libraries in 2023
21 projects | dev.to | 31 Jul 2023

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 Ultimate Comparison: Ant Design vs Material# Ant Design vs Material UI: Which React UI Library to Choose
1 project | dev.to | 19 Jul 2023
MUI finally adds "use client" to their components, but...
1 project | /r/reactjs | 11 Jul 2023
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1 project | /r/reactjs | 24 Jun 2023
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In the MUI case they have a component. https://github.com/mui/material-ui/blob/master/packages/mui-lab/src/TreeView/TreeView.js#L818

What are some alternatives?

When comparing create-react-app and Material UI you can also consider the following projects:

craco - Create React App Configuration Override, an easy and comprehensible configuration layer for Create React App.

mantine - A fully featured React components library

vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

antd - An enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library

nx - Smart Monorepos · Fast CI

primereact - The Most Complete React UI Component Library

nwb - A toolkit for React, Preact, Inferno & vanilla JS apps, React libraries and other npm modules for the web, with no configuration (until you need it)

Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

react-boilerplate - :fire: A highly scalable, offline-first foundation with the best developer experience and a focus on performance and best practices.

nextui - 🚀 Beautiful, fast and modern React UI library.

turborepo - Incremental bundler and build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust – including Turborepo and Turbopack. [Moved to: https://github.com/vercel/turbo]

daisyui - 🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼 The most popular, free and open-source Tailwind CSS component library