Headless UI works well, but it isn’t the only option. Here are the 6 curated kits we’d weigh against it for a new headless build — ranked by editorial score and adoption.
Unstyled, accessible building blocks.
Radix Primitives is strongest when headless components is the right foundation and the team values accessibility and composition control over a generic UI grab bag.
One API across React, Vue, Solid.
Ark UI is strongest when cross-framework primitives is the right foundation and the team values accessibility and composition control over a generic UI grab bag.
An enterprise vocabulary, batteries included.
MUI Core is strongest when react component suite is the right foundation and the team values speed to a complete product interface over a generic UI grab bag.
A design language for dense interfaces.
Ant Design is strongest when enterprise system is the right foundation and the team values speed to a complete product interface over a generic UI grab bag.
100+ components with hooks for everything.
Mantine is strongest when react ui library is the right foundation and the team values speed to a complete product interface over a generic UI grab bag.
The original component grid.
Bootstrap is strongest when css framework is the right foundation and the team values visual control over a generic UI grab bag.
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