Material-UI

About Material-UI

Material UI is an open-source React component library that implements Google's Material Design specification. It provides more than 40 ready-to-use, self-contained components — including buttons, text fields, tables, alerts, and tooltips — that inject only the styles they need and can be used in production without additional setup. It is installed via npm as separate @mui/material, @emotion/react, and @emotion/styled packages.

The library includes a theming system that lets teams apply custom design tokens and branding on top of Material Design defaults, as well as CSS utilities (MUI System) for applying theme-based styles directly through component props, including responsive styles tied to theme breakpoints. It is part of a broader family of products from the same organization, which also includes Base UI (unstyled accessible components) and MUI X (advanced components for complex use cases), along with paid templates and a Figma design kit with a sync plugin for generating theme files from design tokens.

Material UI is intended for developers and product teams building React applications who want a Material Design-based component system that can be customized to match a brand's look and feel. As of this page, it implements Material Design 2, not Material Design 3.

Key features

• 40+ ready-to-use Material Design React components (buttons, tables, alerts, tooltips, etc.)
• Advanced theming to customize components with your brand's design tokens
• CSS utility system (MUI System) for styling with theme tokens and responsive breakpoints
• Figma Design Kit and Sync plugin to bridge design and development workflows
• Fully built templates for dashboards, landing pages, and e-commerce

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