@material-ui/system
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The @material-ui/system package provides a set of utility functions for styling components in a consistent and theme-based manner. It allows developers to apply styles directly to components using a set of predefined style functions and props. This package is part of the Material-UI library, which is a popular React component library for implementing Google's Material Design.
Spacing
This feature allows you to apply margin and padding around your components using a consistent theme-based spacing scale. The 'mb' prop sets the bottom margin, and the 'p' prop sets the padding around the component.
{"<Box mb={2} p={3}>Your content here</Box>"}Color
Enables you to apply color and background color based on the theme's color palette. 'color' sets the text color, while 'bgcolor' sets the background color of the component.
{"<Box color="primary.main" bgcolor="background.paper">Your content here</Box>"}Typography
Allows you to control typography styles such as font size, font family, and font weight, using the theme's typography scale.
{"<Box fontSize="h6.fontSize" fontFamily="fontFamily" fontWeight="fontWeightLight">Your text here</Box>"}Layout
Provides a set of props to control layout aspects like display, flex direction, alignment, and distribution of space among items in a container.
{"<Box display="flex" flexDirection="column" alignItems="center" justifyContent="center">Your content here</Box>"}Styled-system is a similar library that offers a collection of utility functions for styling applications. It also uses theme-based design tokens for spacing, color, typography, layout, and more. Compared to @material-ui/system, styled-system is more framework-agnostic and can be used with any component library or even with vanilla HTML elements.
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides a different approach to styling components. Instead of using JavaScript objects and functions, Tailwind uses utility classes directly in the markup. While it serves a similar purpose in terms of allowing for rapid UI development, it differs from @material-ui/system in its implementation and usage patterns.
Chakra UI is a component library that offers a set of React components designed for building modern applications. It includes a style props feature similar to @material-ui/system, allowing for theme-based styling directly on components. Chakra UI can be seen as a more comprehensive solution, including both a styling system and a wide range of pre-built components.
CSS utilities for rapidly laying out custom designs.
Install the package in your project directory with:
// with npm
npm install @material-ui/system@next @emotion/react @emotion/styled
// with yarn
yarn add @material-ui/system@next @emotion/react @emotion/styled
FAQs
Material-UI System - Design system for Material-UI.
We found that @material-ui/system demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 8 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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