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UI Build Checklist

React (example) of choices to include in a UI library build checklist:

React UI Build Checklist

  • Style Guide
  • Project creation tool
    • Create React App
    • Create Next App
    • Vite
    • Expo (React Native)
    • Create T3 App
  • Package Manager, Bundler
    • NPM
    • Yarn
    • PNPM
    • Webpack
    • Turbopack
    • Turborepo
    • Lerna
    • Nx
  • FC or not FC?
    • FC Pros:
      • Explicit return type of ReactElement | null;
        • Alternative for Non-FC is JSX.Element return type
    • FC Cons:
      • React.FC doesn't accept generics
      • Implicitly takes children.
  • State Management
    • Redux/RTK
    • Recoil
    • Zustand
    • MobX
    • Context API
  • Data Fetching
    • Axios
    • Fetch API
    • SWR
    • RTK Query
    • Tanstack (React) Query
    • Apollo Client
    • Urql
    • Prisma Client
  • Routing
    • React Router
    • React Navigation (React Native)
  • CSS Styling
    • Tailwind CSS
    • styled-components (CSS-in-JS)
    • emotion (CSS-in-JS)
    • CSS modules
    • SASS
  • UI component libraries
    • Chakra UI
    • MUI (Material UI)
    • Tailwind UI components (paid)
    • Flowbite UI (Tailwind-based)
    • React Bootstrap
    • Radix UI
    • Maintine UI
  • Animation Libraries
    • Framer Motion
    • react-spring
  • Chart libraries
    • Recharts
    • visx
    • nivo
    • Victory
    • react-chartjs
  • Form libraries
    • React Hook Form
    • Formik
  • Form validation
    • yup
    • zod
  • Linting tools
    • eslint
    • prettier
  • Authentication
    • auth0
    • Okta
    • nextauth
    • Clerk
    • AWS Cognito
    • GCP Firebase
    • Supabase
  • Hosting
    • AWS, GCP, Azure
    • Vercel
    • Digital Ocean
  • Testing
    • jest
    • react-testing-library
    • playwright
  • Immutable Data Structures
  • immer.js
  • immutable.js
  • Date/Time Libraries
    • date-fns
    • Luxon
  • React Internationalization
    • react-i18next
    • FormatJS
    • day.js
  • Payments
    • PayPal
    • Stripe
    • Square
    • Solana web3.js
  • File Upload
    • react-dropzone
  • Maps
    • react-leaflet
    • Mapbox
    • Google Maps
    • world-countries
  • Monitoring
    • New Relic Browser
    • Google Analytics
    • AWS Pinpoint/Cloudwatch
    • Adobe Analytics
  • Design Prototyping
    • Storybook
    • Figma
  • Documentation
    • Docusaurus
    • MDX library (React/Markdown)
    • Gitbook
  • Spinners
    • react-spinners
  • Icons
    • react-icons