What is Material UI?

MUI (Material-UI) is a popular React component library that provides a set of pre-designed, customizable UI components based on Google’s Material Design guidelines. It helps developers build modern and responsive web applications by offering components like buttons, cards, dialogs, grids, icons, and more. These components are highly customizable and themable, making it easier to maintain a consistent design system across an app while reducing development time.

MUI is especially useful if you're working with React and want to quickly build UI elements that are both visually appealing and functional without having to design each component from scratch.

Let’s go through some examples of MUI components and see how they work in a React project.

Setup

To get started, you first need to install MUI in your project. Run the following commands in your project directory:

npm install @mui/material @emotion/react @emotion/styled

Now, let's look at some basic examples.

import React from 'react';
import Button from '@mui/material/Button';

function App() {
return (
<div>
<Button variant="contained" color="primary">
Primary Button
</Button>
<Button variant="outlined" color="secondary">
Secondary Button
</Button>
</div>
);
}

export default App;

This example provide a starting point for using MUI components in a React project. By combining these and other MUI components, you can create an entire, responsive, and well-designed UI.