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Installation

Install MUI, the world's most popular React UI framework.

MUI is available as an npm package.

npm

To install and save in your package.json dependencies, run:

// with npm
npm install @mui/material @emotion/react @emotion/styled

// with yarn
yarn add @mui/material @emotion/react @emotion/styled

Please note that react >= 17.0.0 and react-dom >= 17.0.0 are peer dependencies.

MUI is using emotion as a styling engine by default. If you want to use styled-components instead, run:

// with npm
npm install @mui/material @mui/styled-engine-sc styled-components

// with yarn
yarn add @mui/material @mui/styled-engine-sc styled-components

💡 Take a look at the Styled Engine guide for more information about how to configure styled-components as the style engine.

Roboto font

MUI was designed with the Roboto font in mind. So be sure to follow these instructions. For instance, via Google Web Fonts:

<link
  rel="stylesheet"
  href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,400,500,700&display=swap"
/>

Font icons

To use the font Icon component, you must first add the Material icons font. Here are some instructions on how to do so. For instance, via Google Web Fonts:

<link
  rel="stylesheet"
  href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons"
/>

SVG icons

In order to use prebuilt SVG Material icons, such as those found in the icons demos you must first install the @mui/icons-material package:

// with npm
npm install @mui/icons-material

// with yarn
yarn add @mui/icons-material

CDN

You can start using MUI with minimal Front-end infrastructure, which is great for prototyping.

Two Universal Module Definition (UMD) files are provided:

You can follow this CDN example to quickly get started.

⚠️ Using this approach in production is discouraged though - the client has to download the entire library, regardless of which components are actually used, affecting performance and bandwidth utilization.

⚠️ The UMD links are using the latest tag to point to the latest version of the library. This pointer is unstable, it shifts as we release new versions. You should consider pointing to a specific version, such as v5.0.0.

Design resources

figma adobe-xd sketch

A set of reusable components for design tools is available, designed to match the React components and to help you craft great products:

  • Figma: A large UI kit with over 600 handcrafted MUI components.
  • Adobe XD: A large UI kit with over 600 handcrafted MUI components.
  • Sketch: A large UI kit with over 600 handcrafted MUI symbols.
  • UXPin: A large UI kit of MUI components. The design tool renders the components in a web runtime. It uses the same React implementation as your production environment.