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HeroUI

React component library (formerly NextUI) with modern motion and theming.

Official site
Monthly cost
Free
Popularity
3/5
LLM knowledge
3/5
Difficulty
Easy
bundle: tree-shakeable
#open-source#typescript

What HeroUI is good at

Strengths
  • +Polished defaults
  • +Great Next.js integration
  • +Tailwind-powered
Tradeoffs
  • Opinionated styling
  • Smaller than MUI

Coding-agent prompt

You're working with HeroUI. React component library (formerly NextUI) with modern motion and theming.

Best practices:
- Lean on: polished defaults
- Lean on: great next.js integration
- Lean on: tailwind-powered

Things to watch for:
- Watch out for: opinionated styling
- Watch out for: smaller than mui

General guidance:
- Canonical docs: https://heroui.com — check here before inventing APIs.
- Keep secrets in environment variables, never commit them.
- Write TypeScript where the ecosystem supports it; add types to every exported function.
- Add tests for the critical paths before declaring the task done.
- Read-the-docs is usually faster than guessing — cite the docs page in code comments when you apply a non-obvious pattern.

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