Discuss: React component libraries compatible with emotion and TypeScript?

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Hello,
I'm seeking a React component library that can be used with TypeScript, I can control the styles by emotion's css prop (or something similar), and is supporting theming.

I found the followings:

Material UI
Rebass
Chakra UI
Theme UI (This seems not production-ready yet though)
Grommet (emotion is not supported yet though)

Do you have any other alternatives, or any suggestions?
Can you tell me what library you like, and what case you prefer it for?

I've been using Sancho UI, but it recently seems inactive and I'm looking for an alternative...

Top comments (10)

François Best • Apr 1 '20

I use Chakra UI in Next.js, and I really enjoy it. It's currently being entirely rewritten in TypeScript (the support is already great in the production branch, but having native types will make it even more awesome).

Yuichiro Tachibana (Tsuchiya) • Apr 1 '20

Thank you!
It sounds nice, and yes, Chakra seems very active and growing.
Do you think it has some advantages over other libraries?

François Best • Apr 1 '20 • Edited

I'm not familiar with the other libraries you mentioned, but what I like in Chakra is:

Accessibility by design
Style props†
Complete set of UI elements, easy to override and compose

† I was a big fan of the styled-components approach, but it generates a lot of boilerplate to override styles locally, whereas the styled-system / style props approach makes it really easy, at the cost of mixing style and functional props, but which is an acceptable trade-off IMHO.

Yuichiro Tachibana (Tsuchiya) • Apr 2 '20

Thank you!

I have been using only the bare css prop of emotion to customize predefined components, but not styled-system... and yes, my concern is the additional overhead, but your comment below is one answer.

the cost of mixing style and functional props, but which is an acceptable trade-off IMHO.

That seems to be a good option to choose!

And other points are also attractive.

easy to override and compose

Yes, this is one thing I think is important and what I need css prop (or styled system!) for.

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Yuichiro Tachibana (Tsuchiya) • Apr 1 '20 • Edited

Thank you!
I didn't know that Tailwind can be used with CSS-in-JS like emotion.
😮dev.to/lpbayliss/how-and-why-i-use...

Yuichiro Tachibana (Tsuchiya) • Apr 5 '20

Chakra UI looks like Tailwind CSS + emotion...?

Chad Adams • Apr 1 '20 • Edited

Ant design ant.design/docs/react/introduce it’s made for enterprise but it’s free. You get way more components than material ui. Plus imo I think it looks better than material design.