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React Material-UI Cookbook

By : Adam Boduch
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React Material-UI Cookbook

By: Adam Boduch

Overview of this book

Material-UI is a component library for rendering UI elements, using modern best practices from React and Material Design. This book will show you how you can create impressive and captivating modern-day web apps by implementing Material Design considerations. The book is designed to help you use a variety of Material-UI components to enhance UI functionality, along with guiding you through React best practices, and using state, context, and other new React 16.8 features. You will start with layout and navigation, exploring the Grid component and understanding how it’s used to build layouts for your Material-UI apps. Using Material-UI components, you’ll then explore the technique of effectively presenting information. In later sections, you will also learn about the different components for user interactions such as the text input component and buttons. Finally, the book will get you up to speed with customizing the look and feel of your app, right from creating a Material-UI theme through to styling icons and text. By the end of this book, you will have developed the skills you need to improve the look and feel of your applications using Material-UI components.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)

Scoped component styles

Most Material-UI components have a CSS API that is specific to the component. This means that instead of having to assign a class name to the className property for every component that you need to customize, you can target specific aspects of the component that you want to change. Material-UI has laid the foundation for scoping component styles; you just need to leverage the APIs.

How to do it...

Let's say that you have the following style customizations that you want to apply to the Button components used throughout your application:

  • Every button needs a margin by default.
  • Every button that uses the contained variant should have additional top and bottom padding.
  • Every button that uses the contained...