Ant Design – the second most popular React UI framework

1. antd

   1 234 94,638 9.9 TypeScript

   An enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library

   

   What's particularly wrong with it? Looks like pretty standard React, with some custom hooks imported, and clearly defined props.

   If you start at the bottom, with the actual component (https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design/blob/master/compone...), the logic is much clearer. Most of the other consts are just definitions that you pass to the component (see documentation at https://ant.design/components/table#table).

   And for the long list of imports and such, any modern IDE can parse those for you and easily jump to the source or the type defs.

   If you're complaining about how this looks vs traditional OOP code, etc., that's just a stylistic choice Meta made for React codebases a few years back. It actually does make components pretty easy to maintain over the long term because all the core logic is just in one long, flat file. Lots of vertical scrolling, but predictable outcomes and easily refactored chunks. But third parties typically just have to mimic that style. That's not on Ant, that's just how JS code is currently in fashion...

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3. material-ui-docs

   2 159 331 10.0 TypeScript

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4. shadcn/ui

   3 309 86,928 9.7 TypeScript

   A set of beautifully-designed, accessible components and a code distribution platform. Works with your favorite frameworks. Open Source. Open Code.

   

   Back in 2018, I worked on projects where we used Ant Design. At the time it was one of the best choices out there for a quick project, as it had all the standard components with a relatively good design out of the box. Since all the easter egg fiasco / css bloat I've avoided using it.

   These days, there's just much better options such as shadcn/ui [1], chakra [2] or radix [3] which when paired with frameworks such as Floating UI are just much better.

   [1]: https://ui.shadcn.com/

5. mantine

   4 248 28,644 9.9 TypeScript

   A fully featured React components library

   

6. Qt

   5 28 2,698 10.0 C++

   Qt Base (Core, Gui, Widgets, Network, ...)

   

   Compared to any major UI library out there. Take QT for example:

   https://github.com/qt/qtbase/blob/5d1ded3359ee8bffa33a4b83d5...

   That ANT Table is not complex. QT has tons of legacy and supports way more features, yet, code is easier to grasp and maintain. Also, C# and WinForms, if you don't like C++:

   https://referencesource.microsoft.com/#System.Windows.Forms/...

7. referencesource

   6 90 3,211 0.0 C#

   Source from the Microsoft .NET Reference Source that represent a subset of the .NET Framework

   

   Compared to any major UI library out there. Take QT for example:

   https://github.com/qt/qtbase/blob/5d1ded3359ee8bffa33a4b83d5...

   That ANT Table is not complex. QT has tons of legacy and supports way more features, yet, code is easier to grasp and maintain. Also, C# and WinForms, if you don't like C++:

   https://referencesource.microsoft.com/#System.Windows.Forms/...

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