Moving away from MUI, choosing the next UI library

[marcopiovanello]

Hello!

Last year (almost) I've started an idea of rewriting yt-dlp-webui's frontend with svelte, but the lacking of good UI libraries and the recent transition to svelte 5 made me abandon it.

Some considerations, I love React and I'm planning to stick with it for many more years 😄. I don't understand critics like "React is slow, use library x". Define slow.

But back on the main topic, yt-dlp-webui uses MUI and recently it has become a problem. (Let's be clear, MUI is great I've used in many enterprise projects).

The problem is that the project grew, quite impressively to be honest, MUI cannot be tree-shaken properly (at least in my case), the bundle size is over 500KB just for the layout (event after code-splitting) and many people dislike MUI in terms of UX.

The mobile UX is horrible, mobile was never meant to be the main target of this app, but many users use it from mobile too which it has to be take in cosinderation.

In these 2.5 years many alternatives have emerged.

[joestump]

First three all seem like good options. The last two seem costly where cost is your after work hours. 😄

[marcopiovanello]

It's indeed true 🥲

[quadcom]

I wish I could contribute advice. Alas I'm not a dev and don't know any of the languages you've mentioned.

I just wanted to leave a note to show that people are seeing this and care.

Thanks for building this and sharing it with the community!