As confirmed by the 2021 dev survey, most of the apps being built with MUI components are categorized as dashboard and enterprise apps. These kinds of products tend to use charts in all kinds of manners (as confirmed in some user interviews), so there’s an opportunity for us to bring more value to our customers, and drive a bigger share of our core components users to MUI X and furthermore to our MUI X Pro plan.
More precise pain points seen:
Customization pain. Developers want an easy solution to get the same design tokens used.
every time, he ends up spending too long styling the charts to be compatible with the components’ current themes. ‣
Designer & Figma
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From LinkedIn on https://cambridge-intelligence.com/regraph/.
The reason is not as clear as simply “Ant is better than MUI”. It seems like the decision was made 3-4 years ago by early React teams at LinkedIn. I wasn’t developing in React at that time & not sure what the state of MUI vs Ant React was. AntD has also been popular because some teams also leverage Ant’s data visualization libraries, which they house under the Ant Visualization organization on GitHub https://t.co/bd9nkUB3P2. Which to my surprise are very good. For reference G6 & Graphin are the only alternative library to Cambridge Intellgience’s data visualization library called ReGraph - license were quoted as around $50k. All this this to say, Antd has a ecosystem building up so it’s easy to stay within it. For example, the other Antv libraries use Antd for their UIs and doc examples (though the libraries are UI agnostic)