13 Must Know Libraries for a React Developer

• TanStack Query

  56 39,627 9.8 TypeScript

  🤖 Powerful asynchronous state management, server-state utilities and data fetching for the web. TS/JS, React Query, Solid Query, Svelte Query and Vue Query.

  

TanStack Query is an open source data fetching library in React developed by Tanner Linsley. It has more than 1.7 million weekly downloads on NPM and more than 35k stars on GitHub as of August 2023.

• Material UI

  290 91,600 10.0 TypeScript

  Ready-to-use foundational React components, free forever. It includes Material UI, which implements Google's Material Design.

  

With GitHub stars of 88K(August 2023) and weekly NPM downloads of 2.9 million(August 2023), MUI is one of the most popular React UI libraries in the world.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• react-bootstrap

  105 22,197 8.1 TypeScript

  Bootstrap components built with React

  

It has more than 21K stars on GitHub and more than 2.4 million weekly downloads on NPM, as of August 2023.

• react-dnd

  24 20,503 0.0 TypeScript

  Drag and Drop for React

  

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.

• SWR

  243 29,431 8.2 TypeScript

  React Hooks for Data Fetching

  

It has more than 27K stars on GitHub and more than 1.2 million weekly downloads on NPM as of August 2023.

• react-hook-form

  210 39,505 8.9 TypeScript

  📋 React Hooks for form state management and validation (Web + React Native)

  

This project has more than 36K stars on GitHub and more than 3.4 million weekly downloads on NPM as of August 2023. Check out this library before building your next form in React.

• recharts

  35 22,600 9.7 TypeScript

  Redefined chart library built with React and D3

  

This library has more than 20K stars on GitHub and more than 1.3 million weekly downloads on NPM as of August 2023.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• react-router

  156 51,901 9.5 TypeScript

  Declarative routing for React

  

React Router is the most popular library to implement routing in React apps. It has more than 50K stars on GitHub and more than 10 million weekly downloads on NPM and it's built by the same team behind the popular Remix framework of React.

• @blueprintjs/core

  36 20,409 9.5 TypeScript

  A React-based UI toolkit for the web

  

Blueprint is a React-based UI toolkit for the web. It is optimised for building complex, data-dense web interfaces for desktop applications that run in modern browsers and IE11. (Source: Blueprint GitHub)

• react-virtualized

  40 25,951 1.6 JavaScript

  React components for efficiently rendering large lists and tabular data

React Virtualized is a React library that helps you work with large lists and tabular data efficiently in React. It has more than 25K stars on GitHub and more than 2.5 million weekly downloads on NPM as of August 2023.

• rsuite

  11 8,143 9.6 TypeScript

  🧱 A suite of React components .

  

React Suite is a set of react component libraries for enterprise system products. It is a well-thought-out and developer-friendly UI framework. (Source: React Suite GitHub)

• Tailwind CSS

  1,280 78,370 9.4 TypeScript

  A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

  

It has more than 71K stars on GitHub and more than 6 million weekly downloads on NPM as of August 2023.

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