Why is PrimeReact such an underdog?
PrimeReact lead here, thank you for your feedback. It is related to marketing mostly, we have an important version v7 coming up with major new features then we will increase our efforts in promoting it. Still it is getting more attention every day from the community.
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PrimeReact UI v9 is out with brand new docs, 700+ new demos, 90+ Components, Hooks and Themes
PrimeReact Theme Designer is now free and open source
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I am currently evaluating React UI libraries for a new project. Everywhere I read about Ant Design, Material UI, Blueprint, and (lately) Chakra UI. At Github, those are full of stars.
Coincidentally I stumbled upon PrimeReact. It is Open Source like the others (with optional professional support), seems to be very cleanly designed and has plenty of components (even Ant can't compete in this regard). It also seems to be there for quite some time (version 6).
So, I wonder a bit why it isn't appreciated more by the community (like the other ones)?
PrimeReact lead here, thank you for your feedback. It is related to marketing mostly, we have an important version v7 coming up with major new features then we will increase our efforts in promoting it. Still it is getting more attention every day from the community.
Used it in our production system for about a year now and we're working on implementing it into another system were currently working on. It's been great so far!
Hi everyone,
After months of work, we are thrilled to announce PrimeReact v9, the open source UI component library for React.
PrimeReact is a part of open source UI libraries from PrimeTek that also includes PrimeFaces, PrimeNG and PrimeVue. PrimeReact never reached the popularity of others so we went back to drawing board and come up with a two phase plan. Phase 1 is now completed as of today.
So what is done in Phase 1?
Moved to primereact.org away from the umbrella of PrimeFaces
All-new documentation
700+ new demos for components
Generated API Doc from typescript
Advanced search with Algolia
What is coming up in Phase 2?
New styling API with CSS variables
Make designer open source and free
Unstyled mode
First class support for css-in-js, css modules, scss and Tailwind.
More templating
Make PrimeIcons optional
Port Accessibility implementation from PrimeVue.
Phase 2 is all about ease of customization and developer experience. Goal is to complete it in Q2 2023. Visit the Roadmap for detailed information about the plan.
Hope you like the project, would love to hear your valuable feedback! See you in v10!