Exploring JavaScript Libraries
Like many component libraries, Material-UI for React comes with a Divider component. Unlike many libraries, it is possible customize the Material-UI Divider text and color through the component’s built-in API. In this article, we’ll create the below: Notice that the color of the first divider is green on the left, blue on the right. This … Read more
Chips are handy components that quickly convey information. From the Material-UI docs: “Chips are compact elements that represent an input, attribute, or action.” Chips commonly are a circle or a horizontally-shaped oval. However, I want to code a challenging chip design so that we are have to stretch MUI to the limits. We’ll build the … Read more
Card components are a common UI building block, and they need to be versatile and customizable to handle a variety of needs. React Material-UI Cards have a significant capacity to be tailored to fit your needs. In this demo we’ll create a mobile responsive card and configure the card header, content, and footer background color. … Read more
Material-UI docs contain a useful pre-built component called a “Transfer List”. You’ve likely used transfer lists before: swap selections from one side to the other and back again. In this article I’ll take Material-UI’s enhanced transfer list and, well, enhance it even more. I’ll style with elevation and box shadow, plus add in the sort … Read more
Have you ever seen an app display an alert that action is required, but didn’t give you the relevant link to take the action? Frustrating, isn’t it? In this demo, we’ll make an alert that has a React Router Link in it: In the above Alert, the Link is contained in a Button component. However, … Read more
Many React Material-UI components have incredible customizations out-of-the-box, while some are functional but missing nice-to-have options (I’m looking at you, Table-without-a-search-prop). The Autocomplete component may have the most customization options of any MUI component I’ve seen. Chips, grouping, disabled options, multiselect, custom popup items, fixed options, and more are demoed in the docs. Link to full JavaScript … Read more
Material-UI’s Paper component is intended exactly as it sounds: to give apps and components a paper-like background and feel. The Paper component is often spaced and shadowed using padding, margin, and either the elevation or outlined variant. In this demo, I’ll show the look and feel of four different React Material-UI Tables wrapped in a Paper component with different … Read more
Material-UI has an extremely robust and customizable slider component. Naturally, I want to push it even farther. In this demo, I’ll create slider thumbs that have images and set slider behavior based on slider position. Code Sandbox link is in the Resources section. MUI Slider Image Thumbs There are two methods for creating slider thumbs … Read more
The goal of this demo is to achieve equal item heights and masonry-style item wrapping in Material-UI’s Grid. This guide focuses on two things: Stretch all items in a Material-UI Grid row to be the same height. Achieve a “masonry-style” layout where shorter and narrower items can wrap in a column when vertical space allows … Read more
Material-UI is a popular component library with excellent functionality and slick styling. Sometimes, however, we need just a bit more than what is available “out-of-the-box”. Material-UI comes with a Table component with significant customizations and styling options. The Table even includes a sticky header option. However, it does not have a prop for setting ‘sticky … Read more
