Andreas Reiterer
28 Feb 2018
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2 min read
If you’re a developer who – like me – is not a good designer or a CSS pro, you might know how troublesome it can be to put together the design for your React app. You spend a lot of time tinkering with the styles, but in the end, it just doesn’t look quite nice.
This is not only annoying, it’s demotivating … after all, you just want to have a good-looking app that is also responsive to support mobile devices. How hard can it possibly be?
If this sounds familiar to you, I can assure you’re definitely not alone.
Styling a web app is a huge pain for many developers. Maybe that’s why there are so many UI libraries out there in the wild. Here are some examples of libraries for styling React apps for you to try out:
You might already know the Bootstrap Framework. It helps you to create responsive grid layouts on your website and offers a whole lot of controls like buttons and form elements. React-Bootstrap offers the functionality of Bootstrap through handy-to-use React components.
All of the above-mentioned libraries are a bit different. The best way to find out which library actually suits your needs, or which one you’re the most comfortable with, is to try them out:
Spend some time with each of the libraries. You’ll soon see which library you’re the most comfortable with, or which one you like best. If you create the same project with each of them, you can directly compare the differences.
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