What is primereact?
PrimeReact is a comprehensive collection of rich UI components for React. It provides a wide range of components that are designed to be highly customizable and easy to use, making it suitable for building modern, responsive web applications.
What are primereact's main functionalities?
DataTable
The DataTable component is used to display data in a tabular format. It supports features like sorting, filtering, and pagination.
import React from 'react';
import { DataTable } from 'primereact/datatable';
import { Column } from 'primereact/column';
const MyDataTable = () => {
const data = [
{ id: 1, name: 'John', age: 30 },
{ id: 2, name: 'Jane', age: 25 }
];
return (
<DataTable value={data}>
<Column field="id" header="ID" />
<Column field="name" header="Name" />
<Column field="age" header="Age" />
</DataTable>
);
};
export default MyDataTable;
Dialog
The Dialog component is used to display content in a modal window. It can be customized with headers, footers, and various other options.
import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { Dialog } from 'primereact/dialog';
import { Button } from 'primereact/button';
const MyDialog = () => {
const [visible, setVisible] = useState(false);
return (
<div>
<Button label="Show" icon="pi pi-external-link" onClick={() => setVisible(true)} />
<Dialog header="Header" visible={visible} style={{ width: '50vw' }} onHide={() => setVisible(false)}>
<p>Content</p>
</Dialog>
</div>
);
};
export default MyDialog;
Chart
The Chart component is used to create various types of charts, such as bar, line, and pie charts. It is built on top of the popular Chart.js library.
import React from 'react';
import { Chart } from 'primereact/chart';
const MyChart = () => {
const data = {
labels: ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May'],
datasets: [
{
label: 'My First dataset',
backgroundColor: '#42A5F5',
borderColor: '#1E88E5',
data: [65, 59, 80, 81, 56]
}
]
};
return <Chart type="bar" data={data} />;
};
export default MyChart;
Other packages similar to primereact
material-ui
Material-UI is a popular React UI framework that implements Google's Material Design. It offers a wide range of components and customization options. Compared to PrimeReact, Material-UI has a more modern design aesthetic and is widely adopted in the React community.
ant-design
Ant Design is a comprehensive UI framework for React that provides a large set of high-quality components. It is known for its robust design system and extensive documentation. Ant Design is similar to PrimeReact in terms of the breadth of components offered but has a different design philosophy.
semantic-ui-react
Semantic UI React is the official React integration for Semantic UI. It provides a set of components that are easy to use and customize. While it offers fewer components compared to PrimeReact, it focuses on simplicity and ease of use.
PrimeReact
PrimeReact is a rich set of open source UI Components for React. See PrimeReact homepage for live showcase and documentation.
Download
PrimeReact is available at npm.
# Using npm
npm install primereact
# Using yarn
yarn add primereact
# Using pnpm
pnpm add primereact
Import
Each component can be imported individually so that you only bundle what you use. Import path is available in the documentation of the corresponding component.
import { Button } from 'primereact/button';
export default function MyComponent() {
return (
<Button label="PrimeReact" />
)
}
Theming
PrimeReact has two theming modes; styled or unstyled.
Styled Mode
Styled mode is based on pre-skinned components with opinionated themes like Material, Bootstrap or PrimeOne themes. Theme is the required css file to be imported, visit the Themes section for the complete list of available themes to choose from.
import 'primereact/resources/themes/lara-light-cyan/theme.css';
Unstyled Mode
Unstyled mode is disabled by default for all components. Using the PrimeReact context, set unstyled
as true to enable it globally. Visit the Unstyled mode documentation for more information and examples.
Contributors