UI Component Libraries: PrimeReact vs Styled-Components

These packages help developers create beautiful user interfaces in React applications, but in different ways. PrimeReact is a complete UI component library with pre-built components like buttons, tables, and forms that you can use right away. Styled-components, on the other hand, is a CSS-in-JS tool that lets you write actual CSS code within your JavaScript files to create custom-styled components from scratch.

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NPM Downloads

PrimeReact

PrimeReact is a rich set of open source UI Components for React. See PrimeReact homepage for live showcase and documentation.

Download

PrimeReact is available at npm.

# Using npm
npm install primereact

# Using yarn
yarn add primereact

# Using pnpm
pnpm add primereact

Import

Each component can be imported individually so that you only bundle what you use. Import path is available in the documentation of the corresponding component.

//import { ComponentName } from 'primereact/{componentname}';
import { Button } from 'primereact/button';

export default function MyComponent() {
  return (
    <Button label="PrimeReact" />
  )
}

Theming

PrimeReact has two theming modes; styled or unstyled.

Styled Mode

Styled mode is based on pre-skinned components with opinionated themes like Material, Bootstrap or PrimeOne themes. Theme is the required css file to be imported, visit the Themes section for the complete list of available themes to choose from.

// theme
import 'primereact/resources/themes/lara-light-cyan/theme.css';

Unstyled Mode

Unstyled mode is disabled by default for all components. Using the PrimeReact context, set unstyled as true to enable it globally. Visit the Unstyled mode documentation for more information and examples.

Contributors

<div align="center"> <a href="https://www.styled-components.com"> <img alt="styled-components" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/styled-components/brand/master/styled-components.png" height="150px" /> </a> </div> <br /> <div align="center"> <strong>Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress 💅</strong> <br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/styled-components"><img src="https://www.styled-components.com/proxy/downloads.svg" alt="downloads: 600k/month"></a> <a href="#backers" alt="sponsors on Open Collective"><img src="https://opencollective.com/styled-components/backers/badge.svg" /></a> <a href="#sponsors" alt="Sponsors on Open Collective"><img src="https://opencollective.com/styled-components/sponsors/badge.svg" /></a> <a href="https://discord.gg/hfGUrbrxaU"> <img alt="Discord" src="https://img.shields.io/discord/818449605409767454?logo=discord" /></a> <a href="https://bundlephobia.com/result?p=styled-components" title="styled-components latest minified+gzip size"><img src="https://badgen.net/bundlephobia/minzip/styled-components" alt="gzip size"></a> <a href="#alternative-installation-methods"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/module%20formats-umd%2C%20cjs%2C%20esm-green.svg" alt="module formats: umd, cjs, esm"></a> <a href="https://codecov.io/gh/styled-components/styled-components"><img src="https://codecov.io/gh/styled-components/styled-components/coverage.svg?branch=main" alt="Code Coverage"></a> </div>

Upgrading from v5? See the migration guide.

Utilizing tagged template literals (a recent addition to JavaScript) and the power of CSS, styled-components allow you to write actual CSS code to style your components. It also removes the mapping between components and styles – using components as a low-level styling construct could not be easier!

const Button = styled.button`
  color: grey;
`;

Alternatively, you may use style objects. This allows for easy porting of CSS from inline styles, while still supporting the more advanced styled-components capabilities like component selectors and media queries.

const Button = styled.button({
  color: 'grey',
});

Equivalent to:

const Button = styled.button`
  color: grey;
`;

styled-components is compatible with both React (for web) and React Native – meaning it's the perfect choice even for truly universal apps! See the documentation about React Native for more information.

Supported by Front End Center. Thank you for making this possible!

Docs

See the documentation at styled-components.com/docs for more information about using styled-components!

Quicklinks to some of the most-visited pages:

Example

import React from 'react';

import styled from 'styled-components';

// Create a <Title> react component that renders an <h1> which is
// centered, palevioletred and sized at 1.5em
const Title = styled.h1`
  font-size: 1.5em;
  text-align: center;
  color: palevioletred;
`;

// Create a <Wrapper> react component that renders a <section> with
// some padding and a papayawhip background
const Wrapper = styled.section`
  padding: 4em;
  background: papayawhip;
`;

function MyUI() {
  return (
    // Use them like any other React component – except they're styled!
    <Wrapper>
      <Title>Hello World, this is my first styled component!</Title>
    </Wrapper>
  );
}

This is what you'll see in your browser:

Looking for v5?

The main branch is for the most-current version of styled-components, currently v6. For changes targeting v5, please point your PRs at the legacy-v5 branch.

Built with `styled-components`

A lot of hard work goes into community libraries, projects, and guides. A lot of them make it easier to get started or help you with your next project! There are also a whole lot of interesting apps and sites that people have built using styled-components.

Make sure to head over to awesome-styled-components to see them all! And please contribute and add your own work to the list so others can find it.

Contributing

If you want to contribute to styled-components please see our contributing and community guidelines, they'll help you get set up locally and explain the whole process.

Please also note that all repositories under the styled-components organization follow our Code of Conduct, make sure to review and follow it.

Badge

Let everyone know you're using styled-components →

[![style: styled-components](https://img.shields.io/badge/style-%F0%9F%92%85%20styled--components-orange.svg?colorB=daa357&colorA=db748e)](https://github.com/styled-components/styled-components)

Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute. [Contribute]. <a href="https://github.com/styled-components/styled-components/graphs/contributors"><img src="https://opencollective.com/styled-components/contributors.svg?width=890" /></a>

Backers

Thank you to all our backers! 🙏 [Become a backer]

License

See LICENSE for more information.

Acknowledgements

This project builds on a long line of earlier work by clever folks all around the world. We'd like to thank Charlie Somerville, Nik Graf, Sunil Pai, Michael Chan, Andrey Popp, Jed Watson & Andrey Sitnik who contributed ideas, code or inspiration.

Special thanks to @okonet for the fantastic logo.

	Stars	Issues	Version	UpdatedⓘLast publish date	CreatedⓘPackage creation date	SizeⓘMinified + Gzipped size
P primereact	7,820	325	10.9.6	a month ago	8 years ago	install size 303.3 KB
S styled-components	40,827	321	6.1.19	a month ago	9 years ago	install size 11.1 KB

Upgrading from v5? See the migration guide.

const Button = styled.button`
  color: grey;
`;

const Button = styled.button({
  color: 'grey',
});

Equivalent to:

const Button = styled.button`
  color: grey;
`;

Supported by Front End Center. Thank you for making this possible!

Docs

See the documentation at styled-components.com/docs for more information about using styled-components!

Quicklinks to some of the most-visited pages:

Example

import React from 'react';

import styled from 'styled-components';

// Create a <Title> react component that renders an <h1> which is
// centered, palevioletred and sized at 1.5em
const Title = styled.h1`
  font-size: 1.5em;
  text-align: center;
  color: palevioletred;
`;

// Create a <Wrapper> react component that renders a <section> with
// some padding and a papayawhip background
const Wrapper = styled.section`
  padding: 4em;
  background: papayawhip;
`;

function MyUI() {
  return (
    // Use them like any other React component – except they're styled!
    <Wrapper>
      <Title>Hello World, this is my first styled component!</Title>
    </Wrapper>
  );
}

This is what you'll see in your browser:

Looking for v5?

The main branch is for the most-current version of styled-components, currently v6. For changes targeting v5, please point your PRs at the legacy-v5 branch.

Built with `styled-components`

Make sure to head over to awesome-styled-components to see them all! And please contribute and add your own work to the list so others can find it.

Contributing

If you want to contribute to styled-components please see our contributing and community guidelines, they'll help you get set up locally and explain the whole process.

Please also note that all repositories under the styled-components organization follow our Code of Conduct, make sure to review and follow it.

Badge

Let everyone know you're using styled-components →

[![style: styled-components](https://img.shields.io/badge/style-%F0%9F%92%85%20styled--components-orange.svg?colorB=daa357&colorA=db748e)](https://github.com/styled-components/styled-components)

Contributors

Backers

Thank you to all our backers! 🙏 [Become a backer]

License

See LICENSE for more information.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to @okonet for the fantastic logo.

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