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How to Convert a Component Design Into an MUI React Code

Material UI or MUI library provides you with robust, customizable, accessible, and advanced components, enabling you to build your own design system and develop React applications faster. That includes a huge list of Material icons, foundational components with MUI Core, advanced and powerful components with MUI X, templates, and design kits!

In this tutorial, we will see how to take a given design and convert it into an actual component code by styling it with MUI Core configurations for a React app. Let’s begin!

Converting a component design to an MUI code in React

If you are provided with a design file with a simple component to build on React there are so many ways, but here with MUI’s extensive pre-built components, the process becomes much easier, faster, accessible, and most importantly customizable!

What we will be making?

We will be taking the following barcode component design and implementing it with MUI for React:

As you can see, we have three items:

The barcode component with the two sections.

The first section holds the barcode image in a blue container.

The second section below the barcode image has all the typography elements like a heading and a paragraph.

Step 1: Start a New React project

Make sure you have Node.js installed on your system and then run the following commands:

<code>npx create-react-app mui-barcode-app cd mui-barcode-app npm start</code>

This will bootstrap a new React application and run the default app on http://localhost:3000/ in your default browser thanks to the Create React App tool.

Step 2: Install Material UI (MUI) Package

Before we start making changes to our default React code, we need the core MUI package because all these icons use the MUI SvgIcon component to render the SVG path for each icon. For each SVG icon, we export the respective React component from the @mui/icons-material package.

Run the following command from your terminal:

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

Or if you are using Yarn:

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

Step 3: Do Some Housekeeping of The Default Code

Let’s make these initial changes:

Remove all the code from App.js file and simply return the <Barcode /> component as so:

import Barcode from "./barcode"; function App() { return <Barcode />; } export default App;

Create a new component file under the src directory called Barcode.jsx. This will house all of the MUI customization code for our component.

Add the barcode image you have to the assets directory under the images folder so you have access to the file when needed to render.

Step 4: Theme the component with MUI!

Here’s the nitty-gritty! We can now start to create our Barcode component.

Still inside the Barcode.jsx file, export the Barcode function with a return statement to follow. To start you can also simply render a tag that says “Barcode component”. If you save your code the render should work.

export default function Barcode() { return Barcode component; }

The ThemeProvider Wrapper

By default all the MUI components and styles you will use have a set default theme that looks like this:

As you can see above, this default theme is a collection of objects with their properties and values. For example, here it shows the color palette of an MUI app. If you wish to use the primary, the main color in any of your React elements like a button background color or a divider color, then its hex value will be #1976d2 as listed.

But in our design, we don’t see such colors as listed on their documentation so to make our own theme work we need the ThemeProvider component from @material-ui/core and make all of the elements as their child in our render method.

This component takes a theme prop. One thing to note is that It should preferably be used at the root of your component tree. So let’s remove the placeholder tag we had before and use this as:

return <ThemeProvider theme={theme}>...</ThemeProvider>;

Make sure you import it too:

import { ThemeProvider } from "@material-ui/core";

Create a Custom Theme

The obvious next step is to actually add our own theming values so that the theme prop works. Outside the Barcode function definition, create a new theme object that uses the createMuiTheme() method. This is used to generate a theme based on the options received which are later passed down to the theme variable of <ThemeProvider>.

createMuiTheme() takes in two arguments of which the first one is really important. It’s the options object that takes an incomplete theme object and this is the only argument that is processed. Inside this object, we can define our custom values to each of the different properties like typography, colors, spacing, font size, etc.

In this demo, let’s try to implement the current font styles. As per our design, the font used in the heading and the paragraph below is called Outfit available on the Google Fonts directory. So to add a custom font in an MUI project we need to follow these steps:

Copy the HTML/CSS import(s) from the custom font CDN. In our case, simply copy the <link> tags that Google provides after selecting the two weights we need of the Outfit font family.

Update the index.html file by pasting in those link tags and removing the default Roboto font included in an MUI project.

3. Create the typography object under the createMuiTheme call giving it the proper names and values like:

typography: { fontFamily: "Outfit", fontWeightRegular: 400, fontWeightBold: 700 }

Now that MUI knows that a custom font is to be used, let’s implement it in our Barcode component. But first, we need to make that card layout and add the image!

Using Default MUI Components

We will need a total of 3 new components that MUI provides to make our barcode look exactly like it’s on the design. Here are those:

The Card component: the basic aim of the card is to contain content and actions about a single subject. MUI has various types of Card components under its belt. Here’s an example:

One great thing about most of the elements in MUI is that we can pass a custom style to any element using the sx prop. It’s like is a shortcut for defining a custom style that has access to the theme. So if we quickly want to change the margins, or width of any element that’s not in our design system we can simply use the sx prop.

For example in our <Card> the component we can provide it a custom padding, boxShadow, borderRadius, horizontal margin and maxWidth as:

2. The CardMedia component: this type of card is perfectly suited for our design as it has an image up top and the content below it. Let’s use it as follows:

This will house a new <CardContent> API for cards under which we can nest all the card content text like our heading and subheading as:

<CardContent> // Other components </CardContent>

3. TheTypography component: this is specifically used to render text elements from a big bold heading of a section to small captions generated on a video. Thus, it comes with a variety of props like align, mt, variant, etc. In our app, we use it for the heading of the card as:

<Typography gutterBottom variant="h5" component="div" align="center" fontFamily="Outfit" fontWeight="fontWeightBold" mt={2} mb={2} sx={{ color: "#182036" }} > Improve your front-end skills by building projects </Typography>

Notice the use of our custom-defined fonts and their weights. We were able to pass the font family and font-weight props to it easily with the set values in the theme object defined above.

Next, we do a similar thing to the subheading with a few tweaks of color and fontWeight:

<Typography variant="body2" align="center" fontFamily="Outfit" fontWeight="fontWeightRegular" sx={{ color: "#7b879d" }} > Scan the QR code to visit Frontend Mentor and take your coding skills to the next level </Typography>

With all that code, you should get the expected styling in your browser similar to this:

If you implemented the above steps successfully, you should have the following code:

import Card from "@mui/material/Card"; import CardContent from "@mui/material/CardContent"; import CardMedia from "@mui/material/CardMedia"; import Typography from "@mui/material/Typography"; import { createMuiTheme, ThemeProvider } from "@material-ui/core"; const theme = createMuiTheme({ typography: { fontFamily: "Outfit", fontWeightRegular: 400, fontWeightBold: 700 } }); export default function Barcode() { return ( <ThemeProvider theme={theme}> <Card sx={{ maxWidth: 350, mx: "auto", padding: "1rem", borderRadius: "4%", boxShadow: 24 }} > <CardMedia component="img" height="350" image="https://i.imgur.com/AJJqWpN.png" alt="Barcode image" sx={{ borderRadius: "4%" }} /> <CardContent> <Typography gutterBottom variant="h5" component="div" align="center" fontFamily="Outfit" fontWeight="fontWeightBold" mt={2} mb={2} sx={{ color: "#182036" }} > Improve your front-end skills by building projects </Typography> <Typography variant="body2" align="center" fontFamily="Outfit" fontWeight="fontWeightRegular" sx={{ color: "#7b879d" }} > Scan the QR code to visit Frontend Mentor and take your coding skills to the next level </Typography> </CardContent> </Card> </ThemeProvider> ); }

And just like that, you were able to understand MUI’s core components needed to make such a component from scratch with a custom theme!

In this tutorial, you got to know the setup MUI React UI library, its installation, and how to make use of its important components like ThemeProvider, Card, Typography, etc to finally convert a design to a custom code.

Next, you can take it further by defining more values inside the createMuiTheme() function like spacing, colors, etc to create even more custom interfaces.

Also if you’re looking for pre-built Material UI Templates that could skyrocket your development process, then visit the page now. Good luck!

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How to Use Material UI (MUI) Icons in React

Whether it’s about a simple landing page, an e-commerce app platform or your company’s internal dashboard, using a library of pre-made icons and components is highly beneficial. There are many other icon libraries out there which can ease your work but one of the largest and the most popular one is the Material UI (or recently named MUI) icon library.

If you are new to Material UI library, it provides you with a robust, customizable, accessible and advanced components, enabling you to build your own design system and develop React applications faster. That includes a huge list of Material icons.

Material UI icons or MUI currently have over 1900 icons based on Material Design guidelines set by Google. So let’s see how to use them in a React application. Let’s begin!

Getting started with Material Icons in a React app

Let’s get our hands dirty with some actual coding where our React app uses the Material Icons (MUI) package.

What we will be making?

Our demo will be a very basic one. Basically, a component where we display three of the common items found in a typical webpage;

As you can see, we have three items:

The “More” dropdown item.

The “Menu” hamburger item.

The “Cart” icon.

Here we are using the Material Icons alongside the texts.

Step 1: Start a New React Project

Make sure you have Node.js installed on your system and then run the following commands:

npx create-react-app mui-demo cd mui-demo npm start

This will bootstrap a new React application and run the default app on http://localhost:3000/ in your default browser thanks to the Create React App tool.

Step 2: Install Material UI(MUI) package

Before we start adding these icons, we need the core MUI package because all these icons uses the MUI SvgIcon component to render the SVG path for each icon. For each SVG icon, we export the respective React component from the @mui/icons-material package.

Run the following command from your terminal:

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

Or if you are using Yarn:

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

Step 3: Install Material Icons Package

Now we can install the icon package with the following command

// with npm npm install @mui/icons-material // with yarn yarn add @mui/icons-material

Step 4: Start Using MUI Icons!

Simply head over to the app.js file and delete all the existing code. We will be writing everything from scratch. Let’s start with the responsive Grid layout component which will contain all of our elements inside. This is useful for different screen sizes and orientations which uses CSS Flexbox under-the-hood. So under the return() method, we should have <Grid> component. This can have its props or custom styles attached to it:

Now we need six new child <Grid> components to hold our icons with the text lables (one for each of the three). Make sure you pass in the item prop to each of them.

Within each of these, we have a <Typography> component holding the text label

As for the actual MUI icon component we will create a duplicate child <Grid> item but the only thing changed here will be the actual icon component name. By now we should have the following code:

import * as React from "react"; import Grid from "@mui/material/Grid"; import Typography from "@mui/material/Typography"; export default function App() { return ( <Grid container sx={{ color: "text.primary" }} > <Grid item xs={1}> <Typography>More</Typography> </Grid> </Grid> ); }

Let’s see how to find icons we need from the MUI website:

Head over to the Material Icons webpage.

Here you will see a list of icons:

As you can see it has 5 types of icons: Filled, Outlined, Rounded, Two tone, and Sharp. For this demo we only want to use the Outlined one.

Now let’s search for the four icons by name let’s say the menu icon:

If you click on the selected icon you will be greeted with the following popup:

Here you get the icon component’s name along with some variants.

Finally, let’s copy the import statement you see in the modal above so that we can use it on our React application.

Inside the second child <Grid> component we can now safely add the selected icon component as:

import MenuIcon from "@mui/icons-material/Menu"; <Grid item xs={1}> <MenuIcon /> </Grid>

Other icon components used for the above demo are: ExpandMoreOutlinedIcon and ShoppingCartIcon. If you implemented the above steps successfully, you should have the following code:

import * as React from "react"; import Grid from "@mui/material/Grid"; import Typography from "@mui/material/Typography"; import ExpandMoreOutlinedIcon from "@mui/icons-material/ExpandMoreOutlined"; import MenuIcon from "@mui/icons-material/Menu"; import ShoppingCartIcon from "@mui/icons-material/ShoppingCart"; export default function SvgMaterialIcons() { return ( <Grid container sx={{ color: "text.primary" }} style={{ margin: "10rem" }}> <Grid item xs={1}> <Typography>More</Typography> </Grid> <Grid item xs={1}> <ExpandMoreOutlinedIcon /> </Grid> <Grid item xs={1}> <Typography>Menu</Typography> </Grid> <Grid item xs={1}> <MenuIcon /> </Grid> <Grid item xs={1}> <Typography>Cart</Typography> </Grid> <Grid item xs={1}> <ShoppingCartIcon /> </Grid> </Grid> ); }

And that should do it! If you followed the above steps carefully, you can see in your browser that React is rendering the corresponding MUI icons as needed.

One of the benefits of using Material UI icons other than the fact that it’s huge with multiple variants is that it is supported by all major platforms, as well as browsers and if you ever get stuck you can definitely check out their GitHub repo. If that’s not enough, they have an entire page dedicated to support.

So go ahead and try to use some other icons available in your project. Hope this short guide helped.

Or you can also browse some of our pre-built react templates that are fully-responsive, interactive, and are loaded with all the important Material UI Icons.

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An Introduction to TypeScript

The front-end React developer world is all abuzz with the fondness of using and preferring TypeScript over JavaScript. Although it’s not recommended for all types of projects it strongly overcomes many shortcomings of JavaScript and improves over it.

In this beginner-friendly article, we will get to know what exactly TypeScript is, how is it a strongly-typed language, how it compares to JavaScript along with some of its highlighting features. Of course, we will be writing our first .ts code too!

What is TypeScript?

TypeScript is a strongly typed programming language that builds on JavaScript giving you better tooling at any scale. It’s a free and open-sourced project created by Microsoft.

It is a ‘superset of JavaScript’, which means that you can continue to use the JavaScript skills you’ve already developed and add certain features that were previously unavailable to you. When compared to JavaScript, it’s a strongly typed language as opposed to JS which is a loosely typed language. You can consider this like JavaScript with superpowers!

Now here’s where this language actually shines…remember the term ‘strongly typed’ we used above? What does it mean in this context? Well, this means that the data types of variables/functions and other primitives must be pre-defined. This is one of the most important features of TypeScript (that’s why it focuses so much on the ‘type’).

Under the hood, it compiles to JavaScript, giving you the benefit of the JavaScript platform plus the intended advantages of types.

Top features of TypeScript

Now that you know a bit about this language, it’s time to see all the important and useful features it provides to the developer. Here are a few of them:

1. JavaScript and more: TypeScript adds additional syntactic sugar to your JavaScript code to support a tighter integration with your editor.

2. Runs anywhere where JavaScript does: TypeScript code converts to JavaScript which can then be run in a browser, on Node.js or Deno, and in your apps.

3. Safety with scalability: it uses type inference to give you great tooling without writing any additional code.

4. Editor support: most of the modern IDEs and code editors like VS Code come with built-in support for TypeScript files. You get autocompletion and auto-import support in VS Code out of the box.

5. Unique language features: here are some of the features which you will only find in a TypeScript code; Interfaces, Namespaces, Generics, Abstract classes, Data modifiers, and more!

6. Gradual adoption rate: you can apply the types to any previous JavaScript projects or codebase incrementally. With great editor support, TypeScript catches errors right inside your editor!

7. Easy to describe the data: it’s really easy to describe the shape of objects and functions in your code. This makes it possible to see documentation and issues in your editor.

All of this should give you a general idea of what TypeScript is and what are its features, it’s time to write our first TypeScript code and see how to use it with JavaScript gradually.

From JavaScript to TypeScript

We won’t be diving straight into a TypeScript code. Instead, we want you to get familiar with an already existing knowledge of JavaScript and use it to convert a small JS code to TS code.

Let’s say we have the following JavaScript code:

// @ts-check function compact (arr) { if (orr. length > 10) return arr. trim(0, 10) return arr }

Now you will see an error like “Cannot find name ‘orr‘.” Next, let’s say we do another mistake like using

trim instead of slice on an array:

function compact (arr: string[]) { if (arr.length > 10) return arr.slice(0, 10) return arr }

We add a type of string[] (String array) for the arr parameter so it should always accept a string-based array and nothing else. Hence, we call TypeScript ‘strongly-typed’.

Install and Setup TypeScript

Time to write some TS code locally on our machine! You can install TypeScript globally via the following NPM command:

npm install -g typescript

Next, you can confirm the installation by running tsc –v to check the version of TypeScript installed in your system. Note that after you write a TypeScript code and want to run it, simply running tsc with file, the name won’t work as tsc is just a TypeScript compiler. We need Node.js to get the actual log output. We can do it by running this command for a “Hello World” program:

tsc hello.ts && node hello.js

Your first“Hello World!” in TypeScript After you installed TypeScript globally on your machine. You can open a suitable code editor like VS Code which has excellent support for the TypeScript tooling.

Create a new TypeScript file called helloWorld.ts. Then simply write a console log statement as you would do in JavaScript:

console.log("Hello World!");

2. Open your command prompt or Terminal window and run tsc helloWorld.ts. You will see nothing will happen as there are no types assigned here hence no type errors.

3. Instead you will see the TypeScript compiler generates a new helloWorld.js file in the same directory. This is the same TS code but it is the generated JS file output.

4. Time to make our console statement better. Let’s say we want to log the person’s name and date by asking the user to enter it through a greeter function:

function greet(person, date) { console.log(`Hello ${person}, today is ${date}!`); } greet('Brendan');

Notice the way we are calling the greet function. If you run this you will get this error because we passed only 1 argument instead of the expected 2:

// TS ERROR: Expected 2 arguments, but got 1.

The parameters to the greet() function don’t have any explicitly defined types so TS will give it any type.

Let’s fix our function with the following valid code:

// "greet() takes a person of type string, and a date of type Date" function greet(person: string, date: Date) { console.log(`Hello ${person}, today is ${date.toDateString()}`); } greet('Maddison', new Date());

Now we have explicitly defined all the data types and we can happily see the log statement printing the exact output we need.

Just in case you are wondering the equivalent JS code of this will be:

// "greet() takes a person of type string, and a date of type Date" function greet(person, date) { console.log("Hello " + person + ", today is " + date.toDateString() + "!"); } greet('Maddison', new Date());

With that, we have covered the bare-minimum basics you need to know of the TypeScript language. As you saw, it’s very much close to JavaScript so if you were already working with JavaScript then it should be easy to learn and migrate your projects to TypeScript. To make your work easy, we’ve created some dashboard templates. Check out now!

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Top 10 IDEs for React.js Developers in 2021

Are you a React developer feeling frustrated by using that same old code editor every day and now want to explore some new and unheard editors? Using a code editor or an IDE that has a sufficient amount of features you need and that fits perfectly into your own workflow is important for the entire work. In this article, we have compiled the top 10 IDEs and editors on which you can get your hands as a React developer with ample support for the JavaScript ecosystem and the features they provide. Enjoy the read!

1. Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

What is it? Visual Studio Code(VS Code) is a free source-code editor made by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It has integrated Git version control and Terminal. It has a very large plugin ecosystem where you can find thousands of helper tools that work best for your tech stack and project. Chances are you are already using and loving this editor. In the Stack Overflow 2021 Developer Survey, VS Code was ranked the most popular developer environment tool.

Top features: IntelliSense: it provides you with better and smart code completions based on variable types, function definitions, and imported modules. Debugging: you can directly launch the debugger with breakpoints, call stacks, and more without ever leaving the editor. Git integration: you can easily review diffs, stage files, and make commits right from the editor. Extensible and customizable: with its extensions gallery you can add new languages, themes, debuggers, and connect to additional services.

2. WebStorm

What is it? WebStorm is a full-blown IDE made by JetBrains for web, JavaScript, and TypeScript development. With WebStorm, you can expect everything and more of what an IDE should provide to a React developer. It runs dozens of code inspections as you type your code and detects potential problems in it. It has smart code completion, on-the-fly error detection, powerful navigation, and refactoring. This comes with built-in support for all web-related technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Vue, Angular, Node.js, HTML, style sheets, etc.

Top features: Smart code refactoring: it autocompletes your code, detects and suggests fixes for errors and redundancies. Powerful dev tools: it comes with all the linters, build tools, terminal, and HTTP client to test and debug your web applications. Code navigation: in just one place you can look for files, classes, or symbols, and review all the code matches. Collaboration support: you can easily onboard your team members and other developers. WebStorm supports real-time code collaboration with sharing code styles, settings and even joining on a call!

3. Atom

What is it? Atom is a free and open-source ‘hackable’ code editor for customizing almost anything without touching its config file. It was made by GitHub. It has a highly customizable environment and ease of installation. So if you are someone who wants to quickly set up a new React project without worrying about multiple steps of installation etc, then Atom may be a good choice.

Top features: Teletype: this is one of the highlight features of Atom as it allows you to share your entire workspace and edit code together in real-time. Full GitHub support: as it’s already bundled so you get to create new branches, stage and commit, push and pull, resolve merge conflicts, view pull requests, etc right out of the box! Built-in package manager: whether it’s about searching for your favorite package for that code library or if you want to be a pro by making your own, Atom has it all! File system browser: with this, it becomes easy to open your main file while browsing all of the existing ones from a single window.

4. Sublime Text

What is it? Sublime Text is a popular commercial code editor which natively supports many programming languages. No code editor talk can be finished without the mention of Sublime Text. It’s one of the most used editors in the world thanks to its slick interface, amazing features, and top-notch performance. All the projects in Sublime Text capture the full contents of the workspace, including modified and unsaved files.

Top features: Split panes and navigation: use a simple modifier when performing actions that will split the interface to show multiple tabs at once. Code definitions: it comes with features like Goto Definition, Goto Reference, and Goto Symbol by which you can explore the full definition in a small popup. Multiple selections: use keyboard shortcuts like ⌘+D to select the next occurrence of the current word, ⌘+K, ⌘+D to skip an occurrence. React/JS file support: TypeScript support comes by default with syntax-based features for all React and JS/JSX files.

5. Reactide

What is it? Reactide(or React-IDE) is the first dedicated IDE for React web application development. It’s a cross-platform desktop application that offers a custom simulator, making build-tool and server configuration unnecessary. Now you can simply reply on a single window for all of your code, browser preview, and more. If you get carried out while writing the React JSX code along with multiple browser windows then Reactide is here to help. It combines everything in one single place so that all the focus is on writing and reviewing the code.

Top features: Intuitive interface: this is probably one of the biggest strengths of Reactide when compared with others. It runs an integrated Node server and custom browser simulator and you can continually track changes through live reloading directly in the development environment. State flow visualization: it comes with a visual component tree that dynamically loads and changes based on components within the working directory while giving information about props and state at every component. Integrated Terminal: the built-in Terminal can be used for running commands in bin/bash for Unix, and cmd for Windows. Streamlined configurations: to start, just input your .js and .html entry points inside Reactide’s universal configuration and then run npm run reactide-server to kick off your project.

6. Emacs

What is it? GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor. It was created by the GNU Project. One of the very highly adopted editors in the GNU world, Emacs has an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. It supports a plethora of programming languages and other faculties of text editing. This also comes with a good and robust set of extensions and other features like Git integration, syntax highlighting, etc.

Top features: Content-aware editing modes: this includes syntax coloring, for many file types. More than code editing: you can use the project planner, mail and newsreader, debugger interface, calendar, IRC client, and more. Extensive extension support: comes with a packaging system for downloading and installing extensions.

7. Rekit Studio

What is it? Rekit is a toolkit for building scalable web applications with React, Redux, and React-router. It’s an all-in-one solution for creating modern React apps. It provides you with the capability for code generation, dependency diagraming, refactoring, building, unit tests, and a meaningful way to navigate code. Rekit creates applications bootstrapped by the Create React App tool and has the capability to scale, test, and maintain easily.

Top features: It helps you focus on business logic rather than dealing with massive libraries, patterns, configurations, etc. Comes with powerful tools like Rekit Studio which is the real IDE for React/Redux development and command-line tools to create/rename/move/delete project elements like components, actions, etc. Rekit can do code generation, dependency diagraming, refactoring, building, unit tests, and a meaningful way to navigate code. It’s highly capable of recognizing which files are components, which are actions, where routing rules are defined, and so on.

8. Vim

What is it? Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. It’s a free and open-source, screen-based text editor program for Unix. The good part is Vim is designed for use both from a command-line interface and as a standalone application in a graphical user interface. Vim has 12 different editing modes, 6 of which are variants of the 6 basic modes. Some of the common ones are Normal, Visual, Insert, Cmdlibe, etc.

Top features: Key mappings: you can execute complex commands with “key mappings,” which can be customized and extended. Recording: this allows for the creation of macros to automate sequences of keystrokes and call internal or user-defined functions and mappings. Extensive: it comes with a persistent, multi-level undo tree along with an extensive plugin system. Support: Vim supports hundreds of programming languages and file formats. It can also be integrated into various other tools easily.

9. NetBeans

What is it? Apache NetBeans is a development environment, tooling platform, and application framework. NetBeans IDE allows applications to be developed from a set of modular software components called modules. It was originally used for making Java applications but now has extensive support for all major tools and technologies including PHP, C, C++, HTML5, and JavaScript. The IDE provides editors, wizards, and templates to help you create applications in Java, PHP, and many other languages.

Top features: Fast and smart editing: it highlights source code both syntactically and semantically, lets you easily refactor code, with a range of handy and powerful tools. CSS editor: this comes with code completion for styles names, quick navigation through the navigator panel, displaying the CSS rule declaration in a ListView, and file structure in a Tree View. Modular: each module provides a well-defined function, such as support for editing, or support for the CVS versioning system. JavaScript editor: it has syntax highlighting, refactoring, code completion for native objects and functions, generation of JavaScript class skeletons, generation of Ajax callbacks from a template.

10. Notepad++

What is it? Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. It’s written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. It supports tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files in a single window. It features all the common editing tools like syntax highlighting, code folding, and limited autocompletion for programming, scripting, and markup languages, but not intelligent code completion or syntax checking.

Top features: Collaborative editing: this allows multiple developers to work on the same file simultaneously while on different computers. Selection methods: it has support for various methods for text selection like block selection, column selection, and non-linear selection. Macros: for recording a sequence of editing commands to be executed repeatedly. Other notable features include; advanced find and replace, split-screen editing/viewing, support for bookmarks, and a plugin system. We hope you liked this set of IDEs and editors for React development. Let us know which one are you currently using and which one you will use after reading this article. Happy coding!

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Top 7 React Developer Tools to Use in 2021 [With Bonus!]

Whether you are just starting to learn React or you’re already full-time working professionally in it there is a huge count of tools (both free and paid) that you can use in your personal or professional projects. They are always beneficial as they help speed up the workflow or get things done easily.

For React developers to take full advantage of the library so that coding with it becomes easier and faster, here are 7 of the best tools out there which you as a React dev should bookmark and use as a reference whenever needed.

1. Reactide

What is it?

Reactide is a dedicated IDE for React web application development.

If you ever wanted to have a separate IDE (not just an editor) just to fulfill all of your React development needs then Reactide is the tool you need right now. It is the first IDE ever built and released just for React web application development.

Features:

Extensible: it runs an integrated Node server and custom browser simulator eliminating the need to configure any servers or build tools.

Easy configuration: you can run a single command to streamline universal configuration.

Components visualization: you can navigate through a live representation of your app’s architecture.

Open-sourced: the code for this powerful tool is hosted on its GitHub repo so you can not only download it for Mac, Windows, and Linux platforms but also contribute to it.

2. Bit

What is it?

Bit is a standard infrastructure for components for autonomous micro-frontend/web app development.

Bit is a collection of almost everything you and your team may need to have fast releases, great consistency, and collaboration at a high scale to build components.

Features:

Split app development: with Bit, there is no need to do monolithic development. Instead, you work on modular apps composed of features built by teams working simultaneously.

Hosting and resuing: you and your team can build together a reusable component for your organization and then collaborate on new builds in the cloud.

Continuous release and component upgrades: you can deliver updates to app components with decoupled versions and release pipelines.

Great at managing docs: Bit makes sure every component is documented, organized, and discoverable by anyone.

3. Storybook

What is it?

Storybook is an open-source tool for building UI components and pages in isolation.

It helps very much in streamlining UI development along with testing components and documenting them.

Features:

Durable interfaces: it comes with a sandbox environment to build the UIs you need in isolation so that more of the edge cases and states of an element is covered.

Testing UI easily: every time you write a story, you get a test case along with it. Along with this, you can reuse stories in your unit tests.

Document and share UI: everything in Storybook is searchable with an option to share each story with your teammates for a single source of truth.

Available for multiple tech stacks: along with React, Storybook is also available for Vue, Angular, Web Components, Ember, HTML, and more!

4. React Developer Tools

What is it?

React Developer Tools adds React debugging tools to the Chrome Developer Tools.

This extension is so popular and useful that it’s recommended to install and use by everyone starting out to learn React. With extensive debugging with this tool, you can expect better bug busting throughout the app development process!

Features:

Inspection: you can inspect the individual React component hierarchies in the Chrome Developer Tools.

The components tab: shows you all of the root components that were rendered on the page along with the sub-components if available.

The profiler tab: this tab allows you to record performance information.

Deeper inspection: you can inspect and edit the selected component’s current props and state them in the panel right from this extension.

5. React Cosmos

What is it?

React Cosmos is a sandbox for developing and testing UI components in isolation.

With React Cosmos you don’t need to settle for the boring localhost:3000 dev environment and you can instead test and develop all components in isolation.

Features:

Visual TDD: with Test Driven Development in React Cosmos you can develop one component at a time, isolate the UI and then iterate on it quickly. No need to reload the app on every change.

Component library: it doesn’t matter if it’s a blank state or an edge case, you can bookmark each component state. The component library includes will organise everything you do.

Open platform: it’s not used just for developing and testing UI components but it can also be used for snapshot and visual regression testing, as well as custom integrations.

Maintainability: with reusable components, you can not only create awesome interfaces but also maintain the quality at scale.

6. Belle

What is it?

Belle use a set of configurable React components with great UX.

With Belle, you can never be in doubt of the overall experience of your components. It provides you a set of commonly used React components like Toggle, ComboBox, Rating, TextInput, Button, Card, Select, etc.

Features:

Versatile and customisable: every component is optimised efficiently to work on both mobile and desktop devices.

Component library: it doesn’t matter if it’s a blank state or an edge case, you can bookmark each component state. The component library includes will organise everything you do.

Open platform: it’s not used just for developing and testing UI components but it can also be used for snapshot and visual regression testing, as well as custom integrations.

Maintainability: with reusable components, you can not only create awesome interfaces but also maintain the quality at scale.

7. React 360

What is it?

React 360 is a framework for the creation of interactive 360 experiences that run in your web browser.

And yes, the same company that builds React is responsible for its VR version i.e Facebook. It uses three.js to facilitate lower-level WebVR and WebGL APIs to create a VR experience on the browser.

Features:

Cross-platform development: you can create VR experiences to run on desktops, mobiles and web without much changes in different platforms.

3D media: it has environment features that handles all the immersive media assets and configurations. That means you as a 360 developer will have a precise control.

Enhanced performance: the overall architecture is designed.

Surfaces by React 360: this allows to integrate UI panels into your apps by creating 2D interfaces that embed on 3D spaces.

Bonus tools!

Apart from the above 7 tools, we also got you three more! Let’s take a very quick look at them:

Rekit: it’s a toolkit to build scalable web applications with React, Redux, and React-router. It’s an all-in-one solution for creating modern React apps.

React Testing Library: it is a lightweight solution for testing React components. It provides utility functions on top of react-dom and react-dom/test-utils, in a way that encourages better testing practices.

Plasmic: it’s an all-in-one tool to visually build pages and components, integrate them to your React code and then set/push them to production.

Wrappixel – it’s a one-stop solution for your react template needs. It provides both free and premium versions for backend interfaces.

And that was it! We hope these tools will help you in your upcoming React projects. Keep on exploring the vast ecosystem React provides by keeping a tab on their official website.

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