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mui/mui-x

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TLDR

Advanced React components for data-heavy applications including a Data Grid, Date and Time Pickers, Charts, and Tree View, free community tier plus paid Pro and Premium tiers for extra features.

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    Components
      Data Grid
      Date Pickers
      Charts
      Tree View
    Licensing
      MIT community tier
      Pro paid tier
      Premium paid tier
    Use cases
      Admin dashboards
      Data tables
      Date selection
    Tech stack
      React
      TypeScript
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Add a sortable, filterable data grid to an admin dashboard that handles thousands of rows.

USE CASE 2

Use the Date Range Picker to let users select a start and end date in a booking or reporting form.

USE CASE 3

Display time-series data in a chart component inside a React analytics dashboard.

USE CASE 4

Build a file tree or category hierarchy UI using the Tree View with drag-to-reorder support.

Tech stack

TypeScriptReactnpmMaterial UI

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 30min

Pro and Premium features require a commercial license key validated at build time, the free Community tier has no key requirement.

The free Community tier is MIT licensed for unlimited use, Pro and Premium tiers require a paid commercial license for additional features.

In plain English

MUI X is a collection of advanced React components built for applications that need to display and interact with large amounts of data. The main components are a Data Grid for showing tabular data, Date and Time Pickers, Charts, and a Tree View for hierarchical data. These are built by the same team behind Material UI, the widely used React component library, but MUI X focuses on more complex, feature-heavy pieces that go beyond basic UI building blocks. The project uses an open-core licensing model. A free Community tier is published under the MIT license and is free to use indefinitely. A paid Pro tier adds features like multi-column sorting and filtering, column resizing and pinning, date range pickers, and drag-and-drop tree reordering. A paid Premium tier adds further capabilities to the Data Grid including row grouping and the ability to export to Excel format. The Pro and Premium packages are separate npm packages installed alongside the free ones. For a team building an internal dashboard, an admin panel, or any interface where users sort through tables of records or pick date ranges, MUI X provides ready-built components that handle the interaction patterns and accessibility concerns that would otherwise take significant time to build from scratch. The components are designed to work within either a Material UI design system or a custom one. The README points to external documentation for installation steps and usage guides for each component. It also describes the project's support options, contribution process, and security policy. A public roadmap is maintained separately. The community version components are MIT licensed and the team has stated they will remain free permanently. Revenue from commercial licenses funds the engineering team that maintains all tiers of the project.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I'm building a React admin panel with MUI X Data Grid. Write a component that fetches user records from an API and displays them in a paginated table with column sorting and a filter for the name field.
Prompt 2
Using MUI X Date Range Picker, add a date selector to my React booking form that blocks past dates and limits the range to a maximum of 30 days.
Prompt 3
Show me how to use MUI X Charts to render a responsive line chart in React with monthly revenue data, a tooltip on hover, and a legend.
Prompt 4
I want to use MUI X Tree View with drag-and-drop reordering. Write a React component that shows a folder tree and fires a callback with the updated order after a user drags an item.
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