material-ui VS chakra-ui

Warning that MUIs Typescript autocompletion / Intellisense in VSCode is extremely slow and has been a longstanding issue since 2020. For me personally it makes it unuseable.

Some examples of popular component libraries include MUI (the artist formerly known as Material UI), Headless UI by Tailwind Labs, and of course Radix UI.

Also you could take a look at how MUI generates it's icons components: https://github.com/mui/material-ui/blob/master/packages/mui-icons-material/builder.js

Material UI has been around since 2014 when Google first released it, but only recently did it become a full-fledged design system with the addition of its own CSS library. The original Material UI was just a set of guidelines for designers who wanted to use Google's design language in their projects. It didn't offer any code or tools that could be used to build sites or apps with it. To date, it has been downloaded over (npm) 295 million times and it has around 81,000+ GitHub stars.

In recent times, one of the robust ways to authenticate a login credential is JWT authentication. Today, we will discuss how we can implement JWT authentication for a login app in React. For styling, I am using Material UI for React. Originally, I implemented JWT authentication over a private login API; replace this API with your private API.

MUI

Just to give an example, some of the projects that I've found interesting are: https://github.com/orgs/TheOdinProject/repositories https://github.com/project-slippi https://github.com/frankborden/slippilab https://github.com/RCVolus/lol-pick-ban-ui https://github.com/OpenLitterMap/openlittermap-web https://github.com/mui/material-ui/issues

- MUI is a mature and stable ecosystem, has a pretty good documentation and the fact that is being used so much helps you by finding a lot of examples out there for many questions that you might have. It has support for React 18. The minus here is, as I said, the customization that can take a while if you completely want to change the UI of a component and and especially if you're not familiar with the library. Also is lacking in some components which you have to install as a separate package.

React: MUI, AntD, Chakra, Mantine

I have my career planned out for a while now, and I planned on working with the front-end to get accustomed with the work, and also because it has a visual presentation of what my code is doing in real time (I'll work my back-end once I'm more accustomed). Thus, when choosing a technology to work on, I decided to pick Chakra UI, due to it being a library of react components (which I'm a bit familiar of). Having a thorough understanding of the library should help me have a much deeper understanding of the ReactJS library.

Further, through Codegen, tests can be automatically generated based on actions performed in the browser. This should reduce the time required for writing tests quite a bit. So, in addition to working on testing, I also decided to contribute to the Web component, which involves building the pages for the app. This will be done using Chakra UI and Remix. Chakra UI provides a bunch of components for different needs such as tooltips, cards, popups, and many more. I have worked on building webpages a lot in the past five months, and even though I have never used Chakra UI, I think I would still be able to utilize some of that experience here.

We will also be using Supabase, an open-source alternative to firebase with a built-in database and authentication system. We will use React for building out the front end and Chakra-UI for styling our React components. We will also set up a cron job that calls a webhook (that we will be building using Express). We will also use the CoinGecko API to fetch the latest cryptocurrency market data.

Chakra e Radix UI

This article explored how to style a Next.js application using Chakra UI, and how to create custom styles for the components the library offers. In addition, we used the Chakra UI color mode feature to create custom themes using the extendTheme function. To learn more about the library, visit the official documentation of Chakra UI. Also, you can get all of the code for this article on my GitHub repository. Visit chakra-ui-color-mode to test out the live version.

Chakra UI: https://chakra-ui.com/

A lot of proof-of-concept and MVP projects start out with a number of libraries meant to be temporary. Maybe the app was using Chakra UI for its modal and custom buttons, while the rest of the imported library is just dead weight. Perhaps developers have been spending more time adjusting Semantic UI’s styling to match the designs than it’s worth.

Any time you import CSS files into a module, that CSS becomes active on EVERY component in your entire project, so that's not really a good way to go about it. It essentially creates a tag inside the final rendered html with all of your CSS within it. If you have two CSS files, and they both have a class of .myClass then they will step on each other and cause bad things to happen to your UI.

There are a few ways to go about this properly.

My first suggestion is to use CSS modules. These are CSS files that work ONLY within the scope of the component's module and don't step on other component module's CSS. Essentially, you are importing a CSS file as an object which React can then use. i.e.

import myStyles from './some_css_file.module.css';

function MyComponent() {
  return 
Blah blah blah
}

What the above does is import your CSS file, but gives every single CSS declaration from the CSS file its own unique class name. This way if two CSS files have the same class name somewhere within them, they'll be renamed to unique class names for each JSX module.

If the above is a little confusing, see the following:

https://css-tricks.com/css-modules-part-1-need/

There are other options such as CSS in JS (personally not a fan) or styled components. There are some absolutely awesome libraries such as ChakraUI or MUI for React which will make your life easier in every way when it comes to styling, but it's all a matter of preference.

Personally, I prefer Chakra UI, but MUI isn't too shabby.

Chakra UI Chakra UI is a simple, modular and accessible component library that gives you the building blocks you need to build your React applications. With Chakra UI you spend less time writing UI code and more time building a great experience for your customers.