Install Material UI, the world's most popular React UI framework.
Run one of the following commands to add Material UI to your project:
npm install @mui/material @emotion/react @emotion/styled
pnpm add @mui/material @emotion/react @emotion/styled
yarn add @mui/material @emotion/react @emotion/styled
Please note that react and react-dom are peer dependencies, meaning you should ensure they are installed before installing Material UI.
"peerDependencies": {
"react": "^17.0.0 || ^18.0.0 || ^19.0.0",
"react-dom": "^17.0.0 || ^18.0.0 || ^19.0.0"
},
Material UI uses Emotion as its default styling engine. If you want to use styled-components instead, run one of the following commands:
npm install @mui/material @mui/styled-engine-sc styled-components
pnpm add @mui/material @mui/styled-engine-sc styled-components
yarn add @mui/material @mui/styled-engine-sc styled-components
Next, follow the styled-components how-to guide to properly configure your bundler to support @mui/styled-engine-sc.
As of late 2021, styled-components is not compatible with server-rendered Material UI projects. This is because
babel-plugin-styled-componentsisn’t able to work with thestyled()utility inside@muipackages. See this GitHub issue for more details.We strongly recommend using Emotion for SSR projects.
Material UI uses the Roboto font by default. Add it to your project via Fontsource, or with the Google Fonts CDN.
npm install @fontsource/roboto
pnpm add @fontsource/roboto
yarn add @fontsource/roboto
Then you can import it in your entry point like this:
import '@fontsource/roboto/300.css';
import '@fontsource/roboto/400.css';
import '@fontsource/roboto/500.css';
import '@fontsource/roboto/700.css';
Fontsource can be configured to load specific subsets, weights and styles. Material UI’s default typography configuration relies only on the 300, 400, 500, and 700 font weights.
To install Roboto through the Google Web Fonts CDN, add the following code inside your project’s <head /> tag:
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com" />
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin />
<link
rel="stylesheet"
href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto:wght@300;400;500;700&display=swap"
/>
To use the font Icon component or the prebuilt SVG Material Icons (such as those found in the icon demos), you must first install the Material Icons font. You can do so with npm, or with the Google Web Fonts CDN.
npm install @mui/icons-material
pnpm add @mui/icons-material
yarn add @mui/icons-material
To install the Material Icons font in your project using the Google Web Fonts CDN, add the following code snippet inside your project’s <head /> tag:
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"
/>
You can start using Material UI right away with minimal front-end infrastructure by installing it via CDN, which is a great option for rapid prototyping.
Follow this CDN example to get started.
We do not recommend using this approach in production. It requires the client to download the entire library—regardless of which components are actually used—which negatively impacts performance and bandwidth utilization.