Exploring JavaScript Libraries
Forms are an important part of many web UIs. Interestingly, Material-UI doesn’t have a form component. It has seven form subcomponents (depending on what components you include), but simply relies on the native React Form component as a parent wrapper. Alternatively, it could be argued the the FormControl component sometimes takes the place of the … Read more
The Material-UI (MUI) Button component merits a detailed exploration of all of its functionality. Its broad use across many UIs makes a deep knowledge of it’s props highly valuable. In this MUI Button demo I will create a new button variant (a great new feature in v5!), enable all props on it, and use it … Read more
Material-UI (rebranded as MUI) recently released version 5, and there were significant changes to the syntax and systems used for styling components. Material-UI v4 relied on JSS and the makeStyles hook for component styling. MUI v5 has migrated to two options: styled API or sx API (<- definitely read this). The styled API creates a … Read more
MUI Button color is a core aspect of proper theming. Fortunately MUI 5 (previously branded as Material-UI) makes it easy to apply the color you want. I will also include Material-UI v4 styling techniques for Buttons where there is a version difference. There are a variety of ways to apply the color you need for … Read more
Material-UI (now MUI) has a variety of excellent layout components. The Stack component is new in version 5 and was created to easily handle one-dimensional vertical and horizontal layouts. Previously these were often handled with the Box component using a flex layout, or a Grid component, but Grids were intended for 2-d layouts. One of … Read more
MUI 5 is here, but many things are the same as Material-UI 4. Button props haven’t changed much and the look-n-feel of the Button component is as slick as ever. Whether you are using Material-UI 4 or 5, the Button code in this demo will be the same. There is a new alignment component called … Read more
The Material-UI Autocomplete component and its Popper component can be styled by targeting built-in MUI styling APIs. In this demo I’ll show the selectors required for styling the Autocomplete component. I’ll do basic styling such as font size, border, hover color. An important characteristic of the Autocomplete component is that it has a Popper that … Read more
ESLint is a fantastic tool that makes it easy for developers to follow accepted standards. ESLint plugins enhance our coding environment with subsets of standards. In this post we’ll look at jsx-a11y and five of the most-used (by Google search volume) WCAG and WAI-ARIA accessibility guidelines it enforces. If you need an overview of eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y … Read more
Creating “Accessible” web apps is both courteous and a business-savvy goal. Ease of use for the physically impaired increases the potential user base for the apps and may generate good will with users who appreciate such gestures. The ESLint plugin jsx-a11y (also known as eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y) gives developers warnings in their IDE if their code might … Read more
Material-UI is compatible with the popular Styled Components library. While MUI normally uses JSS, devs can choose whichever styling library they prefer. Most of the Material-UI docs give examples using JSS and it can be difficult to figure out proper syntax for combining MUI with Styled Components. However, buried deep inside the MUI docs is … Read more
