react-beautiful-dnd vs react-dnd

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JavaScript	Language	TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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react-beautiful-dnd

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

Use React.js with Laravel. Build a Tasklist app
3 projects | dev.to | 4 Apr 2024

For this full-stack single-page app, you'll use Vite.js as your frontend build tool and the react-beautiful-dnd package for draggable items.
The 5 Most Important Features on phived.com
3 projects | dev.to | 23 Feb 2024

A huge win for the user experience using react-beautiful-dnd.
Curious case of Drag and Drop
3 projects | dev.to | 30 Jan 2024

react-beautiful-dnd stands out as the most commonly used, it provides a clean and high-level API with a lot of abstraction. It was developed by Atlassian.
How can we create drag and drop like bento.me in react js ?
1 project | /r/Frontend | 10 Oct 2023
Free tools for frontend
1 project | dev.to | 1 Oct 2023

Drag-and-drop library for React with beautiful animations. Website - GitHub
Is there a react library that allows you to do this? I made the one in the video but I dont know if it's any good
1 project | /r/webdev | 4 Jul 2023

This library is very cool and pretty simple to use : https://github.com/atlassian/react-beautiful-dnd
I made a website builder that works like Notion
1 project | /r/webdev | 20 May 2023

Not sure if OP used these but here are few suggestions: For drag drop: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-beautiful-dnd For resizing with handles: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-resizable
Trying to create drag and drop functionality with React from plain JS code
2 projects | /r/reactjs | 14 Apr 2023

https://github.com/react-dnd/react-dnd https://github.com/atlassian/react-beautiful-dnd
How do you implement drag-select using React-DnD?
2 projects | /r/reactjs | 9 Apr 2023

You can try react-beautiful-dnd, it's amazingly simple, I actually switched from react-dnd a couple months ago to react-beautiful-dnd, and it was easy af.
How to Drag and Drop in React
2 projects | /r/reactjs | 14 Mar 2023

Building a good D&D library, especially one that is accessible, is difficult. Keep that in mind if you decide to roll your own D&D or any other UI component for that matter.

react-dnd

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-dnd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-30.

Curious case of Drag and Drop
3 projects | dev.to | 30 Jan 2024

react-dnd is quite powerful but a bit complex and requires some getting used to.
13 Must Know Libraries for a React Developer
12 projects | dev.to | 15 Aug 2023

The library is fairly simple to use with lots of interesting, and innovative use cases in real world applications. It has more than 19K stars on GitHub and more than 1.8 million weekly downloads on NPM as of August 2023.
Ultimate Guide & Resources to Enhancing Your ReactJS Skills || 16 GitHub repositories
16 projects | dev.to | 14 Aug 2023

Explore complex drag-and-drop interactions with React DnD. Perfect for building intricate interfaces.
Trying to create drag and drop functionality with React from plain JS code
2 projects | /r/reactjs | 14 Apr 2023

https://github.com/react-dnd/react-dnd https://github.com/atlassian/react-beautiful-dnd
Developing and testing sortable Drag and Drop components. Part 1 - Development.
3 projects | dev.to | 4 Dec 2022

React DnD.
How to Implement Drag and Drop in React
2 projects | dev.to | 5 Oct 2022

react-dnd: This is very popular, but it’s a bit complex to use.
Drag and drop in the React.js
4 projects | dev.to | 17 Sep 2022

I recently had to look through the wild and decide which drag and drop library works best for our use-cases. After skimming through the APIs and the github pages of some of the popular libraries, I decided to explore and play around with react-dnd and react-beautiful-dnd. This post covers the contrast between the 2 really amazing libraries.
Backend Engineer needs Wisdom from Front-end Guru
2 projects | /r/Frontend | 9 Sep 2022

MDN - HTML5 Drag and Drop API React DnD
Getting started with React Dnd-Kit
4 projects | dev.to | 16 Jul 2022

In this article we are going to use one of the drag n drop library for react. There are few good drag n drop libraries for react like react-dnd, dnd-kit & react-beautiful-dnd.
Tests using react-dnd with useDrag and useDrop
1 project | /r/codehunter | 22 Apr 2022

Has anyone ever been able to test the drag-and-drop functionality from https://github.com/react-dnd/react-dnd using a functional component with useDrag and useDrop hooks?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing react-beautiful-dnd and react-dnd you can also consider the following projects:

dnd-kit - The modern, lightweight, performant, accessible and extensible drag & drop toolkit for React.

react-dropzone - Simple HTML5 drag-drop zone with React.js.

react-draggable - React draggable component

react-grid-layout - A draggable and resizable grid layout with responsive breakpoints, for React.

nested-dnd - Proof of concept for doing a nested drag and drop in React

elementor - The most advanced frontend drag & drop page builder. Create high-end, pixel perfect websites at record speeds. Any theme, any page, any design.

react-dragula - :ok_hand: Drag and drop so simple it hurts

framer/motion - Open source, production-ready animation and gesture library for React

angular-gridster2 - Angular gridster 2