material-ui VS styled-components

React: MUI Core and recharts

1. Material UI

Material UI offers a large variety of built-in theme options mostly used and needed for your development. most popular ones include accordions, App bar, Bottom navigations, etc. You can explore all the components MUI offers here. MUI is currently having over 84.2K stars on Github. You can check the repo Here

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.

In general I recommend using styled-components or emotion. These directly attach CSS to your components in a scoped way so that your CSS files aren’t stepping on each other’s toes all the time and make sure styling is colocated with the component.

Not only that - after React got more popular - we started to place CSS in components as well (CSS-in-JS like this):

There are different ways to implement CSS In JS, most commonly using either framework-dependent or framework-agnostic libraries. Styled components are among the most popular of them with over 30,000+ stars on GitHub.

Since the main focus is to develop a library in accordance with the principles of accessibility, Cactus UI was developed in a way that without adopting a special design language only includes the necessary styling of components for proper work. However, the developer can easily style it according to the design she/he needs. Also, the developer can use it with different libraries (styled-components etc.) or can style all components according to she/he design with the help of css.

With Next.js, you have complete control over the design of your site. It uses Styled Components for styling, which allows you to write actual CSS code within your JavaScript files. This means you can easily customize the appearance of your blog without having to navigate between multiple files.

See https://observatory.mozilla.org and https://github.com/styled-components/styled-components/issues/2363 and https://content-security-policy.com/examples/allow-inline-style/

Simply said, Styled Components is a third-party library that lets you design reusable custom HTML components with predefined CSS properties and use them anywhere you choose inside your project.