Material UI
Comprehensive React component library implementing Google Material Design for production apps.
UI components and icons npm MIT
Used in agent projects
186
1.5% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in ui components and icons
#16 of 75
by use in those projects
Downloads
10.1M
npm, last 7 days, @mui/material
GitHub stars
99.2K
last push Oct 10, 2026
How Material UI is used
Material UI is a dependency in 186 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (1.5%), #16 of 75 in ui components and icons. The most used alternative there is Lucide React. Projects that use it most often also use Emotion (95.7%), React (98.9%), React Router (40.9%).
Often used with Material UI
| Emotion | 95.7% of Material UI projects · 36.6× more than average |
|---|---|
| React | 98.9% of Material UI projects · 2.3× more than average |
| React Router | 40.9% of Material UI projects · 5.3× more than average |
| Testing Library | 33.3% of Material UI projects · 4.6× more than average |
| Axios | 35.5% of Material UI projects · 3.6× more than average |
| ESLint | 65.6% of Material UI projects · 1.7× more than average |
| Web Vitals | 24.7% of Material UI projects · 14.1× more than average |
| TypeScript | 73.7% of Material UI projects |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 1.3% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.9% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 1.1% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 1.6% of projects set up for it |
| Kiro | 3.4% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Material UI as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install @mui/material |
|---|---|
| Packages counted | @mui/material, @mui/icons-material, @mui/lab, @mui/x-date-pickers, @mui/x-data-grid, @mui/material-nextjs, @mui/system, @mui/styles |
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (115), Next.js (68), Python (2), Other (1) |
| Example projects | thepower/PowerDapp, 1600822305/AetherLink, rajyraman/Levelup-for-Dynamics-CRM, Asvarox/allkaraoke, amelioro/ameliorate |
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