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mdbootstrap/mdb-ui-kit

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TLDR

A collection of 700+ pre-built web components styled with Material Design, built on Bootstrap 5, letting you build polished websites fast without designing from scratch.

Mindmap

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    What it does
      700+ UI components
      Material Design styling
      Bootstrap 5 based
    Components included
      Buttons and forms
      Carousels and modals
      Tables and pickers
      Notifications
    How to use
      Install via npm
      Link in HTML
      Import what you need
    Tech stack
      Bootstrap 5
      SCSS
      Plain JavaScript
    Use cases
      Portfolio sites
      Admin dashboards
      E-commerce stores
      Internal tools

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Build a portfolio or marketing website with polished Material Design styling in minutes.

USE CASE 2

Create an admin dashboard or internal tool with pre-styled forms, tables, and modals.

USE CASE 3

Launch an e-commerce store with ready-made product carousels, buttons, and notification components.

USE CASE 4

Prototype a web app quickly without hiring a designer or writing custom CSS.

Tech stack

Bootstrap 5SCSSJavaScriptHTML5

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
Use freely for any purpose, including commercial projects, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

In plain English

MDB UI Kit (Material Design for Bootstrap) is a collection of over 700 pre-built web interface components built on top of Bootstrap 5, Google's Material Design visual style, and plain JavaScript. Bootstrap is the most widely used CSS framework for building responsive websites, it provides a grid system and basic styling. MDB extends it with a polished Material Design look (the design language used by Google's apps) and adds many more components. The components cover everything a web developer needs to build a professional-looking website without designing from scratch: buttons, forms, carousels (image slideshows), navigation bars, modals (pop-up dialogs), tables, date pickers, notifications, and hundreds more. Each component is styled to follow Material Design's visual guidelines, clean shadows, smooth animations, and consistent color usage. The core appeal is speed and aesthetics. A developer can install MDB (via npm or by linking to it directly in HTML), import the components they need, and have a polished, professional-looking interface working in minutes. It requires no additional JavaScript frameworks, it works with plain JavaScript and is optionally compatible with jQuery. Web developers building any kind of website, portfolio sites, dashboards, e-commerce stores, admin panels, would use MDB when they want a modern, consistent visual design without hiring a designer. It is free under the MIT license for both personal and commercial projects. The styling is written in SCSS (a CSS preprocessor that adds variables and other features to standard CSS).

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Show me how to install MDB UI Kit and add a Material Design button and form to my HTML page.
Prompt 2
I need to build an admin dashboard. Which MDB components should I use for navigation, tables, and modals?
Prompt 3
How do I customize the colors and spacing of MDB components to match my brand?
Prompt 4
Can I use MDB UI Kit with React or Vue, or does it only work with plain JavaScript?
Prompt 5
What's the difference between MDB and regular Bootstrap, and when should I choose MDB?
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