Let's look at the top React "component libraries" in 2025 as defined by popularity (number of NPM installs and/or Github stars.)

What's a "Component Library"?

Component libraries makes development easier — you don't have to copy paste around styles, you can simply do something like:

<Button variant='primary'>
  Hello World
</Button>

Additionally, component libraries come with built-in accessibility and props for responsiveness. Also, most libraries offer very difficult elements to make manually. Have you ever tried styling an raw HTML <input> ? It can be very difficult! Now imagine building a modal, or a table, or a chart!

Top Open-Source React Component Libraries in 2025

1. Shadcn/UI

Shadcn/UI exploded in popularity in 2024 after being released in 2023 due to its unique approach to installation. Shadcn says it is "not a component library" because there is no package to install. Instead, you copy paste components from their website or install from the shadcn CLI.

Their copy-paste installation is unique because it means you own the code. In other words, if you need to change the underlying component code because you need something highly custom (which can easily happen as you scale) you can do so.

Shadcn is one of the fastest growing Github projects of all-time. At the time of writing, it has more than 84k stars.

The author of Shadcn also remains a mystery as he has not revealed his face and instead uses a profile picture on social media and Github from the T.V. show Rick and Morty. Whoever they are: we're thankful for changing frontend development forever.

2. Material UI (MUI)

Material UI is so popular that most people refer to it simply by its initials: 'MUI'.

MUI is based on Google's Material Design principles. It provides a wide range of components, including buttons, navigation elements, data tables, and layout tools.

3. Magic UI

Magic UI is a series of components focused on animations and other challenging designs to make by scratch. Some elements on our own website were made with Magic UI. Similarly to Shadcn, Magic UI uses a copy-paste style install or through a CLI. There is no NPM package.

What's cool about Magic UI is it's all built in Tailwind CSS. The animated beams seen here on our website are built with Magic UI. (Thanks Dillon! He's the author.)

4. Chakra UI

Chakra UI released their v3 in 2024. Chakra is a popular choice among businesses due to their easily customizable theme. Chakra is styled with emotion css and offers a series of more complex components, like Pricing Tables, under their Chakra Pro offering.

I've noticed it's a popular choice among e-commerce related apps like Fermat.

5. Mantine

Mantine is a massive React design system offering more than 100+ components. These components can be very complex, which makes it standout on this list.

For example, Mantine has drag-and-drop components, rich text editors, and complex tables.

I've noticed it's a popular choice among Fintech apps like Elise AI.

6. Ant Design

Ant Design hilariously calls itself the world's "second most popular" design system.

I believe they are referring to MUI as #1. But given the number of React websites being built every day, #2 ain't bad.

Ant Design is a popular choice among enterprises, given Ant is managed by the Chinese company, Alibaba.

7. React Aria

React Aria is a headless design system that is growing in popularity in 2025. It's popular because it's headless, which means that it is unstyled.

Honorable mention: Tailwind

I wasn't sure whether to put Tailwind on this list because it's a CSS utility framework and not explicitly a design system. However, by managing it's theme in your tailwind.config.js file you can definitely make your own component library very quickly using Tailwind. In fact, Magic UI is based entirely on Tailwind. So is Shadcn UI, which is largely Tailwind + Radix Primitives.

That said, Tailwind UI is a component library, which is a set of pre-built components made by the authors of Tailwind CSS. And it's how their company makes money.

How to start using a component library?

You can use Magic Patterns, an AI design tool, to create functional frontend components using many of the component libraries we listed. Shadcn, Chakra, Mantine, and Tailwind are all available on Magic Patterns.

Thanks for reading!