Popular npm packages for React
4 min readApr 10, 2021
In this article, I am trying to maintain a list of the most popular npm packages are currently used by many React developers for use in my project, and hopefully this can be a great reference for you as well:
UI component libraries
- antd — Ant Design is an enterprise grade UI design system.
- @material-ui/core — React Material UI components
- react-bootstrap — Bootstrap 4 components built with React
- react-bulma-components — React component for Bulma framework
- semantic-ui-react — A React component library
- office-ui-fabric-react — The React-based front-end framework for building experiences for Office and Office 365
- reactstrap — Stateless React Components for Bootstrap 4
- rebass — React primitive UI components built with styled-system
- @appbaseio/reactivesearch — React UI components for Elasticsearch
Individual UI components
- @tippy.js/react — The complete tooltip and popover solution for React apps
- react-spinners — A collection of loading spinners with React.js based on Halogen
- react-loader-spinner — react-spinner-loader provides simple React.js spinner component which can be implemented for async wait operation before data load to the view
- react-spinners-kit — A collection of loading spinners built with styled-components
- draft-js — Draft.js is a JavaScript rich text editor framework, built for React and backed by an immutable model
- react-custom-scrollbars — Custom scrollbars for React
- react-select — The Select control for React
- react-dropdown — Simple Dropdown component for React, inspired by react-select
- react-horizontal-scrolling-menu — A horizontal scrolling menu component for React
- react-collapsible — React responsive collapsible section component
- react-calendar — Calendar component for React
- react-datepicker — A simple and reusable Datepicker component for React
- react-table — react-table is a lightweight, fast and extendable datagrid built for React
- react-awesome-button — A button component for React
- react-compound-slider — React Compound Slider is a tiny (4.3kb) slider component with no opinion about markup or styles
- rheostat — A mobile, tablet, desktop, and accessible slider for the web by Airbnb
- react-checkbox-tree — A simple and elegant checkbox tree for React
- recharts — Recharts is a Redefined chart library built with React and D3
- react-chartjs-2 — React wrapper for Chart.js 2
- react-vis — A collection of react components to render common data visualization charts
- victory — React.js components for modular charting and data visualization
- react-modal — Accessible modal dialog component for React.JS
- react-responsive-modal — A simple responsive and accessible react modal compatible with React 16 and ready for React 17
- react-slick — Carousel component built with React. It is a react port of slick carousel
- react-responsive-carousel — A responsive carousel component for React
- pure-react-carousel — A highly impartial suite of React components that can be assembled by the consumer to create a responsive and aria compliant carousel with almost no limits on DOM structure or CSS styles
- react-grid-gallery — Justified image gallery component for React inspired by Google Photos and based upon React Images
- react-images — A mobile-friendly, highly customizable, carousel component for displaying media in ReactJS
- react-image-lightbox — A flexible lightbox component for displaying images in a React project
- react-tabs — An accessible and easy tab component for ReactJS
CSS in JS
- styled-components — Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress
- emotion — A CSS in JS library
- radium — Radium is a set of tools to manage inline styles on React elements. It gives you powerful styling capabilities without CSS
Http clients
- axios — Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js
- apisauce — An http client built on top of axios
- request — Request is designed to be the simplest way possible to make http calls. It supports HTTPS and follows redirects by default
- superagent — Small progressive client-side HTTP request library, and Node.js module with the same API, sporting many high-level HTTP client features
Routing
- react-router-dom — DOM bindings for React Router
- universal-router — A simple middleware-style router that can be used in both client-side and server-side applications
- connected-react-router — A Redux binding for React Router v4 and v5
State management
- redux — Redux is a predictable state container for JavaScript apps
- react-redux — Official React bindings for Redux
- mobx — MobX is a battle tested, simple and scalable state management library transparently applying functional reactive programming (TFRP)
- redux-saga — redux-saga is a library that aims to make application side effects (i.e. asynchronous things like data fetching and impure things like accessing the browser cache) easier to manage
- redux-thunk — Thunk middleware for Redux
- redux-persist — Persist and rehydrate a redux store