The main problem that React-Bootstrap has come to solve is the integration of Bootstraps' JavaScript with React.
React-Bootstrap implements the 4th version of Bootstrap. Actually, if you take into account that in order to use React-Bootstrap you have to install Bootstrap as well (React-Bootstrap still uses the CSS from the original Bootstrap package) then React-Bootstrap is not so far away from the Bootsraps' weekly downloads rate (if you deduct the number of React-Bootstrap downloads from the Bootstrap downloads). React Bootstrap was released in November 2019 and since then gained a lot of popularity in the React community. This fact has implications of how Bootstrap migrates with React, we will see all about it later on.īootstraps' latest version is 5.00 and the library is maintained by a huge number of contributors - 1200.
It is worth noting, that even though officially Bootstrap is a CSS library, it still heavily relies on JavaScript(with jquery). Ready? Set? Let's go!īootstrap library was released in 2011 by the Twitter team, and since then it gained lots of popularity and became one of the most famous CSS libraries with about 2.5M (!) weekly downloads. This article will compare the React-Bootstrap library, which gives you those ready React components (with the CSS design of Bootstrap), and Bootstrap - the most famous CSS library that lets you use plain JSX and CSS in your React projects and enables you to create your own React custom components. With that said, in some situations, React developers still prefer the usage of the plain JSX combined with CSS upon using those prepared React components libraries. There are several React components libraries that give you out-of-the-box components, such as the famous Material UI, Semantic UI React, Gestalt, and many more.
One of the core concepts in React is the creation of custom components and the reuse of them.