react-dnd vs react-grid-dnd

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react-dnd		react-grid-dnd
	Project
24	Mentions	1
20,503	Stars	208
1.0%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	-

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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?

react-grid-dnd

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-grid-dnd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-27.

Simplest Drag and Drop setup in React, in 10 lines of code with SortableJS
7 projects | dev.to | 27 Nov 2021

-react-grid-dnd: it looked like an easy setup and exactly want I was looking for, but... it's not maintained, and not working with npm7+ because it has react 16 as a dependency. So I had all the code setup before installing the lib, and I was quite fed up and tired when I discovered I would need to change my npm version to use it, or do some tricks here and there...

What are some alternatives?

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

react-draggable - React draggable component

sortablejs - Reorderable drag-and-drop lists for modern browsers and touch devices. No jQuery or framework required.

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

react-sortablejs - React bindings for SortableJS

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

muuri-react - The layout engine for React

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

react-dnd - Drag and Drop for React [Moved to: https://github.com/react-dnd/react-dnd]