@mui/material

What is @mui/material?

The @mui/material package is a React component library that implements Google's Material Design. It provides a robust, customizable, and accessible collection of components that can be used to build a wide range of user interfaces for web applications.

What are @mui/material's main functionalities?

UI Components

This feature provides pre-built UI components such as buttons, cards, dialogs, and more, which can be easily imported and used in a React application.

import Button from '@mui/material/Button';

function App() {
  return <Button variant='contained'>Click Me</Button>;
}

Layout Components

This feature includes components for creating layouts, such as containers and grid systems, to help organize the content on the page.

import Container from '@mui/material/Container';
import Grid from '@mui/material/Grid';

function App() {
  return (
    <Container>
      <Grid container spacing={2}>
        <Grid item xs={12} sm={6}>
          Content 1
        </Grid>
        <Grid item xs={12} sm={6}>
          Content 2
        </Grid>
      </Grid>
    </Container>
  );
}

Theming

This feature allows for customization of the look and feel of components through theming, enabling developers to define color schemes, typography, and other design elements.

import { createTheme, ThemeProvider } from '@mui/material/styles';
import Button from '@mui/material/Button';

const theme = createTheme({
  palette: {
    primary: {
      main: '#556cd6',
    },
  },
});

function App() {
  return (
    <ThemeProvider theme={theme}>
      <Button color='primary'>Themed Button</Button>
    </ThemeProvider>
  );
}

Icons

This feature provides a large set of icons that can be used in conjunction with other components or standalone.

import AccessAlarmIcon from '@mui/icons-material/AccessAlarm';

function App() {
  return <AccessAlarmIcon />;
}

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README

MUI Core

MUI Core contains foundational React UI component libraries for shipping new features faster.

• Material UI is a comprehensive library of components that features our implementation of Google's Material Design system.

• Joy UI is a beautifully designed library of React UI components.

• Base UI is our library of "unstyled" components and low-level hooks. With Base, you gain complete control over your app's CSS and accessibility features.

• MUI System is a collection of CSS utilities to help you rapidly lay out custom designs.

Stable channel v5

Installation

Material UI

Material UI is available as an npm package.

npm:

npm install @mui/material @emotion/react @emotion/styled

yarn:

yarn add @mui/material @emotion/react @emotion/styled

Older versions

• v4.x (Migration from v4 to v5)
• v3.x (Migration from v3 to v4)
• v0.x (Migration to v1)

Note: @next only points to pre-releases. Use @latest for the latest stable release.

Base UI

Base UI is available as an npm package.

npm:

npm install @mui/base

yarn:

yarn add @mui/base

Note: Base UI is still in beta. We are adding new components regularly and you're welcome to contribute!

MUI System

MUI System is available as an npm package.

npm:

npm install @mui/system @emotion/react @emotion/styled

yarn:

yarn add @mui/system @emotion/react @emotion/styled

Or if you want to use styled-components as a styling engine:

npm:

npm install @mui/material @mui/styled-engine-sc styled-components

yarn:

yarn add @mui/material @mui/styled-engine-sc styled-components

Visit our styled-engine guide for more information about how to configure styled-components as the style engine.

Sponsors

Diamond 💎

Diamond Sponsors are those who have pledged $1,500/month or more to MUI.

Gold 🏆

via OpenCollective or via Patreon

Gold Sponsors are those who have pledged $500/month or more to MUI.

More backers

See the full list of our backers.

Getting started with Material UI

Here is an example of a basic app using Material UI's Button component:

import * as React from 'react';
import Button from '@mui/material/Button';

function App() {
  return <Button variant="contained">Hello World</Button>;
}

In the interactive demo below, try changing the code and see how it affects the output. (Hint: change variant to "outlined" and color to "secondary". For more options, see the Button component page in our docs.)

Questions

For how-to questions that don't involve making changes to the code base, please use Stack Overflow instead of GitHub issues. Use the "mui" tag on Stack Overflow to make it easier for the community to find your question.

Examples

Our documentation features a collection of example projects using Material UI.

Documentation

• Material UI
• Joy UI
• Base UI
• MUI System

Premium themes

You can find complete templates and themes in the MUI Store.

Contributing

Read the contributing guide to learn about our development process, how to propose bug fixes and improvements, and how to build and test your changes.

Contributing to MUI Core is about more than just issues and pull requests! There are many other ways to support MUI beyond contributing to the code base.

Changelog

The changelog is regularly updated to reflect what's changed in each new release.

Roadmap

Future plans and high-priority features and enhancements can be found in our roadmap.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

Security

For details of supported versions and contact details for reporting security issues, please refer to the security policy.

Sponsoring services

These great services sponsor MUI's core infrastructure:

GitHub lets us host the Git repository and coordinate contributions.

Netlify lets us distribute the documentation.

BrowserStack lets us test in real browsers.

CodeCov lets us monitor test coverage.