@mui/lab
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This package hosts the incubator components that are not yet ready to move to core.
Install the package in your project directory with:
npm install @mui/lab
The lab has peer dependencies on the Material Design components and on the Emotion library. If you are not already using them in your project, you can install with:
npm install @mui/material @emotion/react @emotion/styled
Visit https://mui.com/material-ui/about-the-lab/ to view the full documentation.
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Laboratory for new Material UI modules.
The npm package @mui/lab receives a total of 1,278,038 weekly downloads. As such, @mui/lab popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @mui/lab demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 10 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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