Exploring JavaScript Libraries
Bootstrap is an immensely popular CSS and JS library that facilitates quick grid-style layouts. The library also has a significant number of components in its component library. My favorite thing about the Bootstrap component library is its simplicity. For example, a Button component is simply an html button element paired with Bootstrap’s btn class (and … Read more
The Material-UI Grid is unusual in the universe of MUI components: a Grid is composed of individual children Grids with either a container or item layout prop enabled. The container and item props affect how the child Grids render in the DOM and determine which additional props are available for use. I will show what … Read more
Material-UI version 5 made the styled API one of two primary component styling APIs. Unfortunately, the complexity of styled componenents in Material-UI increased exponentially. For example, now developers must decide: Should I use the styled API that wraps emotion? Should I use the styled API that wraps styled-components? Should I use styled components directly in … Read more
Table pagination can be broken into two conceptual pieces: the UI interface for changing pages, and the paginated data request. Material-UI’s TablePagination component is a robust component for solving the UI interface. The MUI TablePagination component is a dynamic and highly customizable component. It has 18 props listed in the docs, and these control everything … Read more
The Material-UI Dialog component is used for giving the user important information and blocking application interaction until the message is acknowledged. Interestingly, the component has far more props than the average MUI component: 19 props are listed in the docs. This is because the Dialog composition is complex (many layers of elements in the DOM), … Read more
Form layout in Material-UI is simple if you are aware of all the components and props at your disposal. In this post we will discuss some of the form subcomponents that give you control over positioning. Additionally, we will examine when to use the Grid component for form layout There will be full code and … Read more
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
