react-native-ui-kitten VS react-native-paper

Some that also come up are: * https://github.com/akveo/react-native-ui-kitten * https://github.com/draftbit/react-native-jigsaw/tree/master/packages/ui * https://github.com/callstack/react-native-paper * https://github.com/GeekyAnts/NativeBase * https://github.com/react-native-elements/react-native-elements

https://akveo.github.io/react-native-ui-kitten/ is a good alternative, i especially like their demo app, I can just refer a client to that and ask them what screens they like.

I found this issue: https://github.com/akveo/react-native-ui-kitten/issues/1704

React Native UI Kitten is a React Native implementation of the Eva Design system. It offers a set of general-purpose UI components styled in the same way to take care of visual appearance. There are a lot of standalone components available as well.

React Native UI Kitten

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UI Kitten: UI Kitten is a React Native framework for creating stunning cross-platform mobile applications. It is based on Eva Design System and provides a set of general purpose UI components styled in a similar way.

Most RN UI libraries do not support responsive design by default. If you require font sizes to vary based on screen sizes or even user's font settings to accommodate native mobile accessibility settings or RN-web, you might end requiring to customize a lot of stuff to the point that you shouldn't use a UI library at all. Here's a deeper dive on this in the context of UI kitten, if you are keen.

In most cases they are wrappers around pure RN components (as I have been burnt by styling lib in the past - exactly NativeBase and its performance issues) and in the end, created components look like very light-weight version of RN paper components*:* https://github.com/callstack/react-native-paper/blob/main/src/components/Typography/Text.tsx.

react paper modal - Modal

Some that also come up are: * https://github.com/akveo/react-native-ui-kitten * https://github.com/draftbit/react-native-jigsaw/tree/master/packages/ui * https://github.com/callstack/react-native-paper * https://github.com/GeekyAnts/NativeBase * https://github.com/react-native-elements/react-native-elements

I'd say a good start would be to check the demos for NativeBase and Paper to compare the look/feel and see if they have all the components you need.

React Native Paper

CSS-based UI libs don't make sense on mobile; your new options include NativeBase, React Native Elements and others). Some web-based UI libs do have RN siblings though - such as React Native Material and React Native Paper (for Material-UI), and tailwind-rn (for Tailwind). This just means new decisions to make, some learning, and new paradigms for how to use the new libs.

I'll suggest going with native base and react native paper . As these are only 2 libraries up there which are efficient and give some good results.

Every time when I start to learn something new I usually have a look at popular open source project. So I can understand some good patterns etc. E.g. https://github.com/callstack/react-native-paper