react-dnd
Drag and Drop for React (by react-dnd)
react-dropzone
Simple HTML5 drag-drop zone with React.js. (by react-dropzone)

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react-dnd | react-dropzone | |
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25 | 28 | |
21,483 | 10,842 | |
0.2% | 0.4% | |
2.7 | 7.7 | |
6 days ago | 5 months ago | |
TypeScript | JavaScript | |
MIT 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.
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 2025-02-19.
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10 Must-Try React Libraries for 2025 🚀
🔗 https://react-dnd.github.io/react-dnd/
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Curious case of Drag and Drop
react-dnd is quite powerful but a bit complex and requires some getting used to.
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13 Must Know Libraries for a React Developer
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.
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Ultimate Guide & Resources to Enhancing Your ReactJS Skills || 16 GitHub repositories
Explore complex drag-and-drop interactions with React DnD. Perfect for building intricate interfaces.
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Trying to create drag and drop functionality with React from plain JS code
https://github.com/react-dnd/react-dnd https://github.com/atlassian/react-beautiful-dnd
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Developing and testing sortable Drag and Drop components. Part 1 - Development.
React DnD.
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How to Implement Drag and Drop in React
react-dnd: This is very popular, but it’s a bit complex to use.
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Drag and drop in the React.js
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.
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Backend Engineer needs Wisdom from Front-end Guru
MDN - HTML5 Drag and Drop API React DnD
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Getting started with React Dnd-Kit
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.
react-dropzone
Posts with mentions or reviews of react-dropzone.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-12-16.
- Comparison of S3 upload feature between Documenso and aws-s3-image-upload example
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Uploading Images to AWS S3 with Next.js and React Dropzone — A Complete Guide
Learn more about React Drop zone here
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Developed an image compression site to fight pandas.
ImgRoller has a Doropzone that allows you to drag and drop files to select files. And I think the most famous way to create it in React is to use the package react-dropzone.
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Top 10 react packages for SaaS platforms
6. Simplify File Uploads with React-Dropzone
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React Ecosystem in 2024
Website: React Dropzone
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Uploading Images in React
In addition to being able to access the file browser to select an image to upload, I also wanted to be able to drag'n'drop that image as well. While researching a few options, I came across react-dropzone, a "Simple React hook to create a HTML5-compliant drag'n'drop zone for files." Installation was easy, and the docs were well-written with many examples of different applications.
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A document Q&A chatbot built with Next.js + supabase + GPT
The journey starts with the user uploading the PDF document. For this, I used the react-dropzone library. The library supports both drag-and-drop and click-based uploads. Once the user drops the file into the input, the file is sent to the backend for processing
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🎉Top React Libraries for Developers
React Dropzone is a popular open-source library for creating file upload components in React applications. It provides an easy way to implement drag-and-drop file uploads and supports various customization options.
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Filebrowser/Filesystem component
If you want some more advanced functionality, take a look at react-dropzone
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Drag and Drop for React 18
React-Dropzone: https://github.com/react-dropzone/react-dropzone
What are some alternatives?
When comparing react-dnd and react-dropzone you can also consider the following projects:
react-beautiful-dnd - Beautiful and accessible drag and drop for lists with React
dnd-kit - The modern, lightweight, performant, accessible and extensible drag & drop toolkit for React.
react-sortable-pane - :sparkles: A sortable and resizable pane component for React.
react-draggable - React draggable component

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