react-bootstrap is a popular library that provides Bootstrap components as React components, allowing developers to easily create responsive and visually appealing user interfaces in their React applications. By leveraging the power of Bootstrap's CSS framework, react-bootstrap simplifies the process of building UI components and layouts.
While react-bootstrap is a great choice for integrating Bootstrap components into React applications, there are other libraries in the React ecosystem that offer similar solutions. Here are a few alternatives:
For a detailed comparison of material-ui, react-bootstrap, reactstrap, and semantic-ui-react, check out this comparison: Comparing material-ui vs react-bootstrap vs reactstrap vs semantic-ui-react.
Bootstrap 5 components built with React.
React-Bootstrap is compatible with various versions of Bootstrap. As such, you need to ensure you are using the correct combination of versions.
See the below table on which version of React-Bootstrap you should be using in your project.
Bootstrap Version | React-Bootstrap Version | Documentation |
---|---|---|
v5.x | 2.x | Link |
v4.x | 1.x (not maintained) | Link |
v3.x | 0.33.x (not maintained) | Link |
If you would like to update React-Bootstrap within an existing project to use Bootstrap 5, please read our docs for migrating to React-Bootstrap V2.
If you would like to update React-Bootstrap within an existing project to use Bootstrap 4, please read our docs for migrating to React-Bootstrap V1.
Yarn is our package manager of choice here. Check out setup
instructions here if you don't have it installed already.
After that you can run yarn run bootstrap
to install all the needed dependencies.
From there you can:
yarn test
(Or run them in watch mode with yarn run tdd
).yarn start
yarn run build
Click here to explore some React-Bootstrap CodeSandbox examples.
Click here to automatically open CodeSandbox with the React-Bootstrap CodeSandbox Examples GitHub Repository as a workspace.
Yes please! See the contributing guidelines for details.