Ui Framework reviews from Reddit

Summary

We analyzed 419 Reddit reviews across 26 subreddits and 52 posts to rank the best Ui Framework brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/vuejs, r/reactnative, r/sveltejs, r/Frontend, r/nextjs. Top-rated brands include PrimeVue (4.0/5), Vuetify (3.8/5), Quasar (4.1/5).

Stats

Reviews419

Subreddits26

Posts52

Brands89

Products16

Top communities

r/vuejs111 r/reactnative46 r/sveltejs37 r/Frontend30 r/nextjs29

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PrimeVue

4.0

(26)

"Clear docs, lots of components and capabilities"

"PrimeVue + Tailwind is absolutely sick"

"PrimeVUE and PrimeFlex are top."

"Lots of components, easily stylable, good base styles (e.g. Aura theme), my personal top choice"

"I use PrimeVue for all my small projects and I never had problems with it."

"PrimeVue is an excellent choice for UI components."

"Easy customization and plenty of components."

"[PrimeVue Tailwind](https://tailwind.primevue.org) Components are out now!"

"PrimeVue is the most complete one, and it's nice to work with."

"PrimeVue is specialized in admin templates and data heavy apps."

Vuetify

3.8

(24)

"Vuetify is the easiest as it has a lot of components and lots of props built in."

"I would start with Vuetify."

"Vuetify is great and actively updated, making building a responsive app super quick and easy."

"Vuetify is super straightforward and easy to use."

"I love it because it is so easy to get going with complex components and it is highly customizable."

"I use vuetify too and really love it."

"I also like Vuetify because I'm not a designer and it kinda helps with the design."

"50K LoC into my enterprise IT b2b app and using Vuetify here."

"Vuetify is very mature, it's my choice for component frameworks."

"It gets a lot of hate in here, but I like Vuetify."

Quasar

4.1

(21)

"+1 for Quasar. Not just for the easy customisable UI. Also the extended functionnalities."

"Quasar is so much more than that. For me quasar is a 80/20 tool."

"Quasar is king"

"Quasar all the way. Please don’t listen to people complaining about Material design."

"I rather like quasar."

"Quasar is an excellent framework for building applications."

"It's based on material design guidelines while it offers ton of customizations and options."

"Quasar or PrimeVue"

"Quasar is also a good option."

Chakra UI

4.3

(14)

"ChakraUI is by far my fav I’ve used so far"

"I second chakra. We use it and no complaints at all"

"If you were using react, i would recommend material UI, chakra UI or mantine."

"ChakraUI is my preference"

"Chakra is unreal - I highly recommend it."

"I use chakra and love it. Solid choice."

"Chakra UI"

"I recommend the following: Chakra UI"

"If you want simplistic and minimal designs, go for ChakraUI"

"If you’re worried about time, it might be quicker to use a ready made library like ChakraUI or Flowbite"

Bootstrap

4.0

(13)

"I just use bootstrap 5 and create my own components, it's much easier and bootstrap is the grand daddy of CSS frameworks."

"Bootstrap.scss + tweaks + custom logic when needed has never failed me."

"Bootstrap allows for customization with custom CSS or themes."

"If I am doing something commercial or enterprise I am going to use bootstrap. It's fast and easy for other developers and also users."

"Bootstrap"

"Bootstrap + PurgeCSS"

"[https://bootstrap-vue.org/](https://bootstrap-vue.org/) Bootstrap"

"It's plenty customizable with SASS."

"Personally, I consider Bootstrap the most simple and beginner friendly UI library."

"For me, Bootstrap was the most intuitive to start with because I learned it in school, but I really like the design of MaterialUI’s components."

DaisyUI

4.0

(13)

"Daisyui. better than skeleton as you don't have to import anything."

"Tailwind CSS has a very easy learning curve, and once you get the basics you have a lot of power to customize and do it very fast."

"DaisyUI is something ive been using for a while now."

"Use daisyui. I recently found beercss, looks decent."

"DaisyUI offers great styling options."

"DaisyUI is pretty easy to customize."

"DaisyUI, but to your point about classes… I’ve used @apply to use cleaner naming conventions."

"Tailwind + daisyUI is popular"

"The tailwind ones (daisy skeleton flowbite) and agnosticUI"

"I like DaisyUI. Since it's a CSS-only framework, it's not tied to Svelte, unlike Skeleton."

Mantine

4.3

(12)

"Mantine UI 👼"

"I’ve been really loving Mantine for React. It has a design I really like plus it’s very intuitive compared to other react libraries I’ve tried."

"If you were using react, i would recommend material UI, chakra UI or mantine."

"Nobody has said mantine but I think it's great and pretty easy to get up and running."

"Mantine 7 supports Tailwind."

"I used mantine in a previous project and really liked it."

"I recommend the following: Mantine"

"Mantine is really complete, community present and réactive, component highly customable, free and open source"

"If your app is data heavy and requires lots of manipulation, go for MantineUI"

"Mantine UI and PrimeReact"

Shadcn UI

4.0

(11)

"We are currently using shadcn vue and it gives the best devexp I ever had."

"Shadcn ui is pretty fun"

"Shadcn-ui is expected to provide more control over components."

"In terms of really good and minimal UI - Shadcn"

"I've been into Shadcn UI lately for different projects."

"I recommend the following: shadcn/ui"

"Shadcn, daisyui, nextui, tailwindui"

"If you want fast and using too many RSC's, go for ShadcnUI"

"Shadcn works the best for me + it's easy to customise using tailwind"

"My favorites are shadcn and NextUI. But I prefer the first one."

React

4.2

(10)

"React is much flexible and easy to learn."

"React is a great framework."

"I built mine with React and ShadCN+Tailwind, mostly."

"Honestly, as React.js is 100% just Javascript its Typescript support is the best without a doubt."

"If you want to develop mobile apps only then probably go with something else like React or Flutter."

"The best one I've found so far."

"React is a popular choice for building cross-platform software."

"I personally use React + Tailwind for the quick and dirty apps."

"Both Angular and React work well with Typescript. I feel React harmonizes better with the language."

"Later on, I had to try to react in another project, and man, it's a disaster in terms of reading that ugly syntax and trying to scale it."

#10

Tamagui

3.3

(12)

"I used to use NativeBase. But that is so slow so I've migrated to tamagui. I'm really happy with it."

"Been using Tamagui and I love it"

"I landed on a Expo project that is using it and seems nice. It's a cross platform framework."

"Tamagui"

"All of these options seem good, just don't use NativeBase."

"I would say tamagui, but I struggle a little bit with the documentation, especially with the themes."

"Tamagui was insanely hard for me to configure, I do hope it got better now."

"Tamagui was a pain to configure, abandoned that quickly."

#11

WPF

4.4

(9)

"WPF, is amazing and is supported in .NET8"

"I still recommend WPF anyday"

"WPF for me."

"For more serious apps, _seriously consider_ dropping it afterwards and learning MVVM."

"Otherwise WPF and Analonia UI are good for desktop"

"I recommend spending the time learning WPF for desktop applications."

"I'd say just bite the bullet and go straight to WPF."

"I'd start with WPF. Learn how to write XAML."

"I would choose wpf if you are a beginner."

#12

Tailwind CSS

4.3

(9)

"I suggest to use Tailwind."

"I’m a fan of Tailwind CSS, and if necessary, Flowbite or DaisyUI. Gorgeous libraries."

"Tailwind is framework-agnostic so if you like it feel free to use it."

"Tailwind, unocss"

"Tailwind CSS and i'm going to try Wave Ui."

"If you learn tailwindcss, you can build your own UI components quickly and easily. As for JS functionality headlessUI works with tailwind and has the common js components you might need."

"If you're a bit experienced I suggest you go with Tailwind along with Tailwind UI."

"I'm a huge proponent of utility CSS frameworks like Tailwind CSS and UnoCSS."

"If you are willing to create your own components, maybe tailwi"

#13

Vue

4.6

(8)

"I used Vue 3 + quasar + composition API+ composables. I have all the routine logic on centralized utils. All good and clean plus nice performance."

"Vue is very user-friendly."

"Vue JS by faaaaaarr."

"It has great documentation and great TS support."

"Vue typing is great with the composition API - even better with `script setup`."

"Vue > svelte > angular > react"

"Vue is a bit more abstract than React but feels cleaner."

"If you think react has too much magic, then you definitely don't want to ever try Vue."

#14

Ionic

4.1

(8)

"Thanks for all your suggestions! It looks like **Ionic** is the favorite for this kind of application."

"The ionic framework works well for projects with web and mobile view."

"It's an aesthetically clean and feature complete framework."

"Ionic as a base and then other frameworks to add onto it - the ones mentioned and I also want to add Tailwindcss"

"Maybe you want something like ionic?"

"If u want near native mobile look & feel in a responsive way, covering md and ios , go try Ionic - demo https://ionicsvelte.firebaseapp.com/"

"Currently everything is react native and ionic. Moving away to native."

"Backed by solid company and free. Combine this with Tailwind and you are the main!"

#15

Flutter

4.1

(8)

"Flutter already has two really nice built-in ones. One for material design and one for iOS-style. They are easily themed and customizable."

"Flutter for example has better look "out of the box" with their Skia engine."

"Flutter is fine as well, if you are willing to learn the new technology."

"Choose something like flutter or react native. It doesn't take that long to learn and now with AI it can do most of the job for you."

"Personally I went with flutter. Might be a stupid choice, but so far it has worked great."

"Most people recommend flutter for frustrated MAUI/Xamarin devs"

"If you want to develop mobile apps only then probably go with something else like React or Flutter."

"Flutter is much more mature, has more pre-made components and 3rd party packages."

#16

Element Plus

4.0

(8)

"Element Plus is pretty easy to use imo."

"Element plus"

"Element Plus is dead simple and customizable."

"Element plus"

"It has what you need to build your SPA without needing something extra and also you can change the style pretty easy."

"Element Plus is a hidden gem for me."

"It has CSS variables that you can override."

"We might want to try out Element Plus. Could you (or others) elaborate more about what features it lacks?"

#17

Avalonia

4.0

(8)

"Its an Opensource UI project inspired in WPF but with multi-plattform support."

"Avalonia. It is actively maintained and is cross platform - ios and android as well."

"Avalonia"

"Your best bet would be Avalonia UI IMHO."

"Otherwise WPF and Analonia UI are good for desktop"

"Avalonia https://avaloniaui.net/"

"Avalonia is an excellent choice for cross-platform development."

"For Linux desktop I use Avalonia, it's not particularly "native" looking for anything."

#18

Naive UI

4.3

(7)

"NaiveUI is also pretty nice"

"It's pretty straightforward and complete. Entirely written in TS."

"Tried Naive UI few weeks ago and I’m really impressed by all the possibilities it offers."

"NaiveUI and DaisyUI are both pretty good."

"For me naive ui play really well with tailwind and you can customize it to your liking, extend and what not"

"Check naiveui.com !"

"Good base styles, not easily stylable, not that many components"

#19

Nuxt UI

4.1

(7)

"Their way of working with icons and form validation with zod has the best DX"

"If you can use Nuxt (it’s full-stack Vue), I’d recommend NuxtUI (basic, has most components you’ll need, free) or NuxtUI Pro (has more components, some more specialized, but requires paid license)."

"As a Vue noob I tried pretty much all of them and eventually settled with Nuxt and Primevue."

"I like Nuxt UI. We have plans to adopt it at work as well."

"Nuxt UI - thank me later"

"There is also nuxt ui as another ui library option."

#20

Flowbite

4.0

(7)

"I've experimented with flowbite and daisyui, and I prefer daisyui."

"Flowbite-svelte"

"People talk about Flowbite a lot. I use DaisyUI"

"Flowbite has a similar but free UI markup plus a react/svelte and vue ui library too that can be directly used."

"Been using flowbite recently https://flowbite-svelte.com/"

"I think that Flowbite can be a pretty good option. There's a Nuxt.js integration guide too."

"Check [Flowbite](https://flowbite-svelte.com/). Still in beta but pretty easy to use with tailwind."

#21

MAUI

3.0

(9)

".NET MAUI is the best. It offer good balance of productivity and performance."

"Maui is cross platform and prob the best modern option."

"Probably MAUI Blazor will be closer to Flutter as it's mostly html&css and it will be the same on all devices(?)"

"Probably MAUI, but it's not great."

"I like MAUI but I still suffer most of the weird bugs."

"MAUI - Blazor Hybrid, where you design the UI using Blazor pages and using MAUI only to talk to the device."

"MAUI is good enough since .NET 8 if you are not looking for super beautiful UI."

"Once you start getting unbelievably weird bugs with MAUI not even AI can help you."

"I've been hearing "Maui is a few years away from being stable" for a few years now"

#22

Skeleton

3.9

(7)

"Skeleton.dev is pretty cool. Been using lately and i love it."

"I've used skeletonui and daisyui. both are great."

"My favorite is skeleton.dev, high quality stuff"

"Clickable: Skeleton.dev"

"Skeleton"

"Skeleton ui"

"Skeleton gave me a good first impression because it's quick to setup and has some nice things like toasts and drawers, but it has accessibility issues and is very specific to svelte+skeleton."

#23

React Native

4.2

(6)

"Plain StyleSheet is the best imo. I feel so comfortable creating reusable style properties."

"If you want experience for actual enterprise apps, you have to learn stylesheet."

"React Native app that consumes a .net web API."

"Can it be built using much more popular cross-platform tooling like React Native (my personal preference) or Flutter?"

"🔷 React Native + React Native Paper"

"Currently everything is react native and ionic. Moving away to native."

#24

React Native Paper

4.0

(6)

"I'm using the React Native Paper theme system. Two theme options, light and dark."

"You can definitely use React Native Paper or React Native Elements because they’re mostly follows Android Material Design pattern."

"React native paper"

"I am using React Native Paper for my project. I am a bad designer, so this UI library helps me to stick to one style."

"React Native Paper is pretty nice."

"React Native Paper for Material Design."

#25

Bulma

4.6

(5)

"Bulma is the best looking one and really easy to work with."

"Bulma is another level, so much fun to work with."

"Bulma doesn't include any JavaScript so it's really easy to create your own implementation in React."

"Bulma is looking promising and I am thinking of using that for my next project."

"Bulma (not really job demanding), or just go DIY as it is really fun and actually is important."

#26

NativeWind

4.6

(5)

"I HATE TAILWIND! So for me to choose Nativewind it’s because it really is currently the best crossplatform solution out there right now."

"My favorite is Nativewind. First thing to consider is that it’s the only one of them that has a growing number of users."

"We used nativewind and then wrote our own components."

"NativeWind compiles into StyleSheet (I believe) - I wouldn't consider it a UI library by any means."

"Nativewind is fine. Not as updated as I'd want but it does the job."

#27

Angular

4.6

(5)

"Angular"

"Angular without a doubt. The most opinionated and scalable."

"Angular is what you’re looking for"

"I'd say the new Angular version (and angular in general) have very clean code splitting by design."

"I'll keep using Angular because it's the framework I'm most familiar with."

#28

Oruga

3.7

(6)

"[Oruga](https://oruga.io) has [Bulma theme](https://github.com/oruga-ui/theme-bulma)."

"Oruga."

"Oruga is a framework of unstyled components."

"I'm giving a try with Oruga + Picocss and some grid scss utility."

"Used Oruga with Flowbite styles. It's a lot more work to get it working, though..."

"My most recent admin panel I developed using Oruga and Tailwind in Vue3/vite."

#29

IBM

4.0

(5)

"I've used IBM Carbon, but I've switched to using https://www.shadcn-svelte.com/. All of them are well documented and worked well for me."

"Carbon Components Svelte https://carbon-components-svelte.onrender.com/"

"I've had great success with https://carbon-components-svelte.onrender.com/"

"For an enterprise app I would recommend a Web Components set like carbon or spectrum."

"Https://github.com/IBM/carbon-components-svelte"

#30

NativeBase

3.2

(6)

"I haven't used the latest gluestack version but have used native base and was quit happy with it."

"I see a lot of recommendations for NB however RNE have more stars on github."

"I think these frameworks would help you: NativeBase"

"Loved NativeBase. I think they really hurt their reputation by officially decommissioning it before GlueStack was fully fleshed out."

"We used NativeBase at the place I used to work at for several large client projects. I liked working with it, even if it wasn't great performance-wise."

"Not a very well written code if you look at it, NB really struggled with performance."

#31

Svelte Material UI

3.8

(5)

"I use [https://sveltematerialui.com/](https://sveltematerialui.com/), not sure how well it compares to Skeleton."

"There is Svelte Material UI - https://sveltematerialui.com/"

"We have used the previous version of Svelte Material UI in a production app, and it was good enough."

"Https://sveltematerialui.com has the best datatable."

"I try to use https://sveltematerialui.com but maybe it sill missing some component."

#32

Next UI

3.6

(5)

"NextUI is good if you have no UI sense, because their built in components are already designed very well and maintains proper consistency all over the app."

"I recommend the following: Next UI"

"NextUI and Chakra UI are both great choices."

"Next-Ui (good UI but again heavy)"

"If your UI sense is terrible, go for NextUI"

#33

Tauri

4.5

(4)

"I like Tauri+React+Mantine for the UI component library, and maybe some Framer Motion Js for some smooth animation."

"Best thing about Tauri is that it goes well with almost anything."

"🔷 Tauri + any web framework"

"Isn't Tauri what you want? Rust, uses available web view, small."

#34

UI Kitten

4.0

(4)

"I think these frameworks would help you: UI Kitten"

"I found out that ui kitten actually work pretty good regarding the designable components and performance of application."

"UI Kitten looks amazing in the demos."

"UI Kitten."

#35

Material UI

4.0

(4)

"Personally I like material ui since they have very stable releases and with react, they give you grid and flex containers so you can basically no css a template."

"I really like the design of MaterialUI’s components."

"If you were using react, i would recommend material UI, chakra UI or mantine."

"I'm currently using material-ui and it meets your other criteria."

#36

Unistyles

3.8

(4)

"This as well as unistyles"

"Unistyles is a superset of StyleSheet similar to how TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript."

"Unistyles"

"I asked a similar question recently and honestly just go stylesheet or unistyles. I tried native wind and tamagui and it isn't worth it :)"

#37

Ant Design

3.8

(4)

"I recommend the following: Ant Design"

"Here are just some examples [https://antdv.com/components/overview](https://antdv.com/components/overview) Ant Design"

"Ant design is actually good"

"I have a love/hate relationship with Ant.design."

#38

React Native Elements

3.8

4.0

(2)

"I much prefer it, mostly for aesthetic reasons, but also their component offerings."

"I like primng, other will say material."

#56

Headless UI

4.0

(2)

"Headless UI and Reach UI may be good options, essentially working with components that require you to write your own CSS."

#57

STWUI

4.0

(2)

"STWUI - https://stwui.vercel.app/"

"Check out STWUI. It is a Svelte TailwindCSS component library that has over 50+ components."

#58

3.0

(1)

"If you want to plot something you can use plotlyjs although it isn’t that complete I think."

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