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Ant Design

A React component library and design system for building enterprise web apps.

GitHub Download 6.6.8
Stars
100k
Forks
54.6k
Licence
MIT
Language
TypeScript
Last update
4 days ago
Type
Library

What it is

Ant Design is a UI library for React, written in TypeScript, that provides a set of ready-made components such as buttons and date pickers, along with a design language to keep screens consistent. Developers install it from npm as the package named antd and import components into their own web applications. It also supports theme customization and internationalization.

  • Add a date picker and buttons to a React web application with a single import
  • Customize the color theme of an app through the documented theme customization guide
  • Build an enterprise-style web interface with consistent components
  • Run the component library locally to explore and modify its source code

Great for

  • React developers building admin dashboards or internal business tools
  • Teams that want a consistent visual style without designing every component from scratch
  • Projects that need TypeScript types for their UI components
  • Developers who want theme customization through a CSS-in-JS system

Not ideal for

  • Projects that do not use React, since the components are built for React (reason: the README describes it as a React UI library)
  • Beginners who only want a simple static website (reason: the library assumes familiarity with React and a build setup)
  • Teams that need a non-Ant visual style and do not want to override the default theme (reason: the design language is opinionated)
Step-by-step guide: how to use Ant DesignInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs
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How to get it

  1. 1

    Install with a package manager

    You'll need: Node.js · npm, yarn, pnpm, or bun

    Install with npm

    npm install antd

    Install with yarn

    yarn add antd

    Install with pnpm

    pnpm add antd

    Install with bun

    bun add antd
  2. 2

    Run it

    • Install the package with one of the install commands
    • Import a component such as Button from 'antd' into a React file
    • Render the component inside your React application
    • Open the app in a browser to see the result
  3. 3

    Get the most out of it

    • Customize the theme using the Customize Theme guide linked in the README
    • Explore the Components Overview on the official site for the full component list
    • Use the Scaffold Market and Pro Components links to start from ready-made project templates
    • Clone the repository and run npm start to explore the component source and demos locally

Downloads

Source code (.zip)master branch · straight from GitHubRelease 6.6.81 files incl. website.tar.gzOfficial website & docsant.design

Strengths

  • Large set of React components available out of the box
  • Written in TypeScript, so component types are available to users
  • Supports theme customization and internationalization for dozens of languages

Trade-offs

  • Requires familiarity with React and a JavaScript build toolchain
  • Visual style is opinionated, so heavy restyling takes effort
  • Supported environments are listed as modern browsers, server-side rendering, and Electron, with no version details beyond the browser table in the README

How it compares

ProjectStarsTypeLevelUpdatedBest for
ant-design (this)100kLibraryintermediate4 days agoReact developers building admin dashboards or internal business tools
material-ui99.3kLibraryintermediate4 days agoReact developers who want a consistent, prebuilt set of UI components
chakra-ui40.7kLibraryintermediate4 days agoReact developers who want prebuilt UI components instead of styling from scratch
mantine31.9kLibraryintermediate4 days agoReact developers building web apps who want many components out of the box
daisyui42.7kLibraryintermediate6 days agoDevelopers already using Tailwind CSS who want prebuilt components
layui30.6kLibrarybeginner4 days agoDevelopers maintaining existing sites or admin panels built on Layui

Stats synced from GitHub. The assessment above was drafted with AI from the project's README on 2026-10-29 and may miss recent changes — check the README before relying on a command. MIT licence: free to use, modify and distribute, including commercially, as long as you keep the copyright notice.