react-dnd vs dnd-kit

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react-dnd		dnd-kit
	Project
24	Mentions	41
20,485	Stars	11,281
0.9%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	4.9
2 months ago	Latest Commit	22 days ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

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?

dnd-kit

Posts with mentions or reviews of dnd-kit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-10.

Best Next.js Libraries and Tools in 2024
10 projects | dev.to | 10 Apr 2024

Link: https://dndkit.com/
Curious case of Drag and Drop
3 projects | dev.to | 30 Jan 2024

dnd-kit is one of the newest ones, it is modern, light-weight, and performant.
React Ecosystem in 2024
22 projects | dev.to | 16 Oct 2023

Website: DND Kit
Show HN: An open source visual editor for React
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Sep 2023

Yup that's the one. Also recommend checking out [dnd-kit](https://dndkit.com), which we may migrate to at a later date.
🎲 Dice Merge - ReactJS
1 project | dev.to | 9 Jun 2023
Technology behind figma/godaddy/google site
1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 29 May 2023

You can drag and drop things in pure assembly by using native browsers APIs or using a library like https://dndkit.com/.
🎉Top React Libraries for Developers
7 projects | dev.to | 18 May 2023

DND Kit is a React library for building complex drag-and-drop web applications. It provides a set of APIs for handling drag-and-drop interactions, making it easier to build custom drag-and-drop.
React Beginner with question!
1 project | /r/reactjs | 6 May 2023

you can check https://dndkit.com for the drag and drop.
Libraries for nested drag and drop
1 project | /r/reactjs | 5 May 2023

Dnd kit: https://dndkit.com/
How do you implement drag-select using React-DnD?
2 projects | /r/reactjs | 9 Apr 2023

What are some alternatives?

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

react-beautiful-dnd - Beautiful and accessible drag and drop for lists with React

react-draggable - React draggable component

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

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

react-sortable-hoc - A set of higher-order components to turn any list into an animated, accessible and touch-friendly sortable list✌️

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-smooth-dnd - react wrapper components for smooth-dnd

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

svelte-dnd-action - An action based drag and drop container for Svelte

angular-gridster2 - Angular gridster 2

react-sortablejs - React bindings for SortableJS