react-draggable vs react-dnd

react-draggable

React draggable component (by STRML)

UI Components Drag and Drop

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react-dnd

Drag and Drop for React (by react-dnd)

UI Components Drag and Drop React not-the-game

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react-draggable		react-dnd
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7	Mentions	24
8,799	Stars	20,503
0.9%	Growth	1.0%
3.7	Activity	0.0
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
JavaScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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react-draggable

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-draggable. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-12.

nize.pics – create beautiful images of code and screenshots
5 projects | /r/webdev | 12 Nov 2022

Thanks! It's built with React (Next.js) and Mantine for the UI components. I'm not sure what you mean with edit systems, but the layers are using react-draggable. The syntax highlighting is powered by shiki and a bunch of exported VS Code themes. The state is handled by zustand, with the undo-redo functionality built on top of it. The code formatting is done with prettier and the image export uses html-to-image.
Drag and drop in the React.js
4 projects | dev.to | 17 Sep 2022

react-draggable
React zoom and pan with draggable elements
2 projects | dev.to | 20 Mar 2022

The first chapter will explain how we can create draggable elements, is a great existing package called react-draggable, This package is powerful that can provide draggable elements using JavaScript.
How to make a draggable component in ReactJs?
1 project | /r/developersIndia | 14 Feb 2022
Simplest Drag and Drop setup in React, in 10 lines of code with SortableJS
7 projects | dev.to | 27 Nov 2021

-react-draggable: I must say I didn't see that one, and didn't try.
What libraries would you use to build something like Google Slides? I mean drag, drop, resize movable rich text boxes etc.
1 project | /r/webdev | 15 May 2021

Maybe it's a collection of libraries. Some might be https://interactjs.io/ https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-draggable etc.
Made my portfolio website of theme Ubuntu 20.4 theme by React.js & Tailwind CSS! Check it out, link in the comment. Dont forget to give your feedbacks below👇
2 projects | /r/webdev | 16 Apr 2021

At first I thought I have to make the divs draggable myself, but then i found this amazing library called react-draggable, and it saved a lot of my time!

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-draggable and react-dnd you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

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

react-zoom-pan-pinch - 🖼 React library to support easy zoom, pan, pinch on various html dom elements like <img> and <div>

react-sortable-pane - :sparkles: A sortable and resizable pane component for 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

react-droparea - Drag and Drop library for React

angular-gridster2 - Angular gridster 2