Transition from Templates to Business Software

Initially focused on React, Angular, and Bootstrap templates, Flatlogic has pivoted since 2022 to offer advanced business applications such as CRM, ERP, SAAS, data management, and inventory management systems tailored to business needs. This strategic move aligns with our vision to empower businesses with robust tools that enhance operational efficiency and drive growth.
Introducing Flatlogic Generator
Our flagship product, the Flatlogic Generator, exemplifies this transition. The Generator enables users to create fully functional applications like custom ERPs, CRMs, and SAAS platforms. Leveraging AI, the platform simplifies the development process, allowing for the creation of sophisticated business software with ease and speed. Users can select their preferred technology stack (React, Vue, Angular, Node.js, Laravel) and define their database schema using AI[1]“[2].

Key Offerings and Benefits

• Rapid Development: Create web apps in minutes instead of months. The platform generates front-end, back-end, and database structures, fully connected and ready to use[3].
• Customization: Full ownership of the source code allows for deep customizations and scalability without typical platform limitations[4]“[5].
• AI-Driven Development: Flatlogic’s AI capabilities guide users through development, making it as simple as texting. Post-launch, AI continues to optimize and evolve the app[6]“[7].
• Seamless Deployment: Applications created with Flatlogic are hosted securely on the cloud, with CI/CD processes, ensuring quick and reliable deployments[8].
• Comprehensive Features: Built-in authentication, role-based access control, data analytics, and more, ensuring robust and secure applications[9]“[10].

Best Offerings

• CRM (Customer Relationship Management): Enhance customer engagement with tailored CRM solutions that offer contact and lead management, sales automation, and insightful analytics[11].
• ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning): Fully customized ERP systems tailored to your enterprise needs, providing deep integration with your business processes[12].
• SAAS (Software as a Service): Develop and deploy scalable SAAS applications efficiently, with full control over the code and the ability to iterate rapidly[13]“[14].

About Flatlogic

Founded in 2013, Flatlogic has evolved from selling admin dashboard templates to pioneering business software generation. We have served thousands of businesses worldwide, including notable companies like Samsung, Apple, and UNICEF.

For more information, visit Flatlogic’s Website or contact our support team.

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This integration leverages the natural language processing capabilities of ChatGPT to automatically generate a database schema based on the user’s description of the app. Flatlogic’s powerful web app generator then takes over, building a fully-functioning CRUD app based on the schema in record time. Whether you’re a developer looking to streamline your workflow or a non-technical user looking to build your own app, this integration has something to offer you.

With ChatGPT and Flatlogic, you can create a fully-featured CRM/ERP web app, CMS software, project management tool, or admin panel in minutes, without having to write a single line of code. The possibilities are endless, and the resulting apps are production-ready, with a modern design and smooth user experience.

The process is very simple: go to our main page, click “Generate web app”, register for an account, and on the 3rd step, where you define a database schema, add a description by clicking on the “Generate with AI” button. You need to type the application’s description in the text area and hit “Send”. The application’s schema will be ready in around 15 seconds. You may either hit deploy immediately or review the structure to make manual adjustments.

For example here is the app (built with Vue / Node.JS / Postgresql / Tailwind) https://erp-12205-lnm5nd2pia-uc.a.run.app/#/ that was generated based on the following description:

“ERP system with leads, inventory management, healthcare management system and events tracking”

Please note that this feature is currently in an experimental phase, and we welcome all feedback and comments as we continue to refine and improve it. If you have any ideas or suggestions, we encourage you to reach out to us through our forum or social media channels.

Just head to our main page and click “Generate Web App” to get started, and be part of a revolutionary new way to develop apps. We look forward to refining and improving the integration to make your app development experience even more enjoyable!

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The plan consists of 3 tiers and starts from $39/month. Additionally, now you can subscribe to the entire Flatlogic Platform and generate as many apps as you want on any stacks. 

What’s included in the new pricing plan? 

We have introduced a new model which we think will be more valuable for our customers. The main options now are that you can subscribe to the whole platform with unlimited access to all Flatlogic tool features. We also have now the option to pay for the platform monthly or yearly.

How much does it cost and how the pricing works? 

The new pricing plan starts at $39/month or $299/year for the one app in one stack. Commercial use is allowed and hosting for this app is also included. The plan is bests suited for those who like to work on one stack and don’t need to create many projects.

The second option is the subscription for the entire platform now costs $299/month and $2990/year. During the subscription on that plan, you can generate and download the source code of any number of applications on any stacks. Hosting is also free for you. This plan best suits agencies, freelancers, and service companies that require creating many apps per year.

All new subscription tiers include:

• Download source code;
• Free hosting included;
• Commercial use of generated source code;
• Custom domain;
• Community forum support.

The enterprise plan stays the same. We are charging a custom price for custom features. This plan includes a dedicated engineer and supports managers, we also help to define that DB schema.

Benefits

Based on our internal research using the Flatlogic Platform you can save up to $12500 while starting a web app.

The resulting out-of-the-box application has the following features:

• Configured and ready to use authorization and authentication;

• Fully ready-to-use application with front-end, back-end parts, and database;
• Each app comes with a docker container for quick deployment to any hosting platform;
• The application is fully adaptive across all screen sizes;
• For every entity created with the generator, the tool automatically creates an API documented with Swagger;
• Ready-made components for the full-stack app. Buttons, tables, forms, and general layout come out of the box;
• The app will also contain some basic searching, filtering, and validation;
• The build/compilation process is already set up and works without problems;
• Image storage implemented;
• All back-end and front-end logic is generated automatically according to the previously created database schema.

How to Subscribe?

Just head over to our main page/pricing page and click on the “Create web application”/”Subscribe” button. You’ll be prompted to create an application and then choose a subscription plan. Once your payment is processed, you’ll be able to access all of the features included in your plan. 

If you have any questions about the new pricing plan, please contact us at support@flatlogic.com.

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If you work in the internet business, especially as a software engineer, you must have heard about low-code/no-code (LCNC) tools. Popular tech portals frequently mention no-code nowadays; for example, the google trends chart shows a constantly growing interest in the phrase “no code low code”.

The number of investments in low-code/no-code grew constantly as well. At least before 2022. Here is the chart based on the Spreadsheetweb data that shows the data before 2022:

Unfortunately, there is no fresh information that describes the LCNC venture market reaction to the recent financial downturn in Q1 and Q2 2022, however, in my opinion, it should correlate with the common venture market downturn in general and not deviate much. Furthermore, according to the Spreadsheetweb report that contains various forecasts, the projected size of “Low-code Development Platform Market” is even more sweeter, expected to reach 84.8 Billion by 2027 (average of projections). This is a lot.

So the data shows that low-code/no-code is a very hot topic that receives lots of investors’ attention and media coverage, but the question is do they really help with software development?

This article compares LCNC tools to the classical way of creating applications, questions their ability to create truly custom applications, and talks about an alternative solution (website templates and classical IDEs) to the problem LCNC tools try to solve.

Briefly, what is low-code/no-code?

Low-code/no-code tools promise to solve the problem of huge costs and time involved in building web/mobile applications minimizing or eliminating the amount of money spent on expensive engineering resources. At least this is the promise.

Typical LCNC tool tries to approach the development of web applications by providing a user with a drag and drop interface where the user is intended to build an application by placing UI elements on a canvas and connecting them between each other, to data sources, and attaching some actions to particular elements. In other words, LCNC tools provide an environment for visual software development as opposed to the traditional way when an engineer writes code in an IDE. The new way is assumed to be more productive and requires less technical knowledge, hence claiming to eliminate software engineers from the process completely. This is used as a marketing message promising to deliver exceptional results in a revolutionary way.

Below are examples of some LCNC tools that a mentioned on the first google page when searching for “no-code tools”:

The picture includes Bubble, Retool, Microsoft Power Apps, Adalo, Webflow, Google Appsheet

Old-school visual programming language

Contrary to the widespread claim of being a completely new approach in software development, LCNC tools are in fact not new and look familiar to experienced engineers by a different name – “visual programming languages”. The idea of creating programs visually was there since the early days of programming itself, but for a very specific reason never experienced broad adoption.

According to Wikipedia, “a visual programming language (VPL) is any programming language that lets users create programs by manipulating program elements graphically rather than by specifying them textually”. OK, now let’s compare this to the definition of a no-code development platform by Wikipedia: “No-code development platforms (NCDPs) allow programmers and non-programmers to create application software through graphical user interfaces and configuration instead of traditional computer programming”. Does it sound somewhat similar? Or completely similar? Both promise to create software graphically, rather than visually. So it makes sense to analyze and later extrapolate what happened with VPLs and why they never become the standard of software development.

Ivan Danyliuk greatly explained in his article that visual programming is best to define relations in space (graphical elements, UI), but textual programming is best for defining relations in time (the order of events on a timeline). In other words, it is easy for a human brain to map physical objects in space visually, rather than describing them using text, and to describe the sequence of events (algorithm, instructions) textually, rather than draw a flow chart diagram. This is sort of a natural attribute of the human brain, hence, can not be overcome easily and is better to be adjusted to.

Another problem with using visual programming is that rather than making it easier to put one’s ideas into action more quickly (use keyboard to type), it actually adds another layer of abstraction (mouse and screen). In other words, it is faster to type, rather than to drag a mouse.

Ivan also argues (and I agree) that this is the reason why “visual programming languages” never achieved broad popularity – one wants to give instructions in a textual way, not visual. From my point of view, this is the same reason why LCNC tools are going to fail in the long run – algorithms are better read and written as text. Trying to approach software development visually just like “visual programming languages”, low-code/no-code tools derived VPL’s weaknesses too, and in my point of view, are doomed to share the same fate.

Low-code/no-code and Turing completeness

Also, drag and drop is limited in its nature – you can only design the system within limits defined by LCNC tools. In other words, low-code/no-code tools are not Turing complete – there is only a finite set of configurations one may reach with the LCNC tool. A system is said to be Turing complete if it can address any computational problem, regardless of how difficult it is, provided that it has sufficient time and memory as well as the relevant instructions. Since the best way to specify instructions (relations in time, sequence of events) is a textual form, the ability to specify these instructions will be very limited due to the nature of the LCNC tool, hence making the whole approach limited. While programming language is in fact a computer-readable version of a natural language, which is enough to describe any relations between whatever number of objects, hence programming language is universal.

Eventually, it means that in order to be flexible within the LCNC tool, to build a truly specific application that matches specific requirements one has to write code within the LCNC tool (SQL queries, javascript injections, templates, etc), which is already possible in some of the mentioned tools, which eventually makes the LCNC tool an IDE. 

The logic is the following, as an ordered list: 

1. I want to build an app minimizing the amount of coding;
2. I go to the LCNC tool and create an app;
3. I need to extend the app to fit my particular needs, hence I write the code in the LCNC tool;
4. Since I am already writing the code, then why shouldn’t I go full speed and set up an IDE in the first place, and write the code the normal way?

So in order to be able to allow to build full-fledged software, low-code/no-code tools need to converge to IDE’s, hence are going to compete with current products (Visual Studio, JetBrains). From the author’s point of view, it is easier to add low-code/no-code features to IDE (i.e. UI builder) rather than build a new sophisticated IDE from scratch. Moreover, LCNC tools are browser-based, hence the IDE has to be browser-based as well, which limits its capabilities. This is why I believe that writing code will never become outdated in the software industry.

What about templates?

Template, starter kit, theme, boilerplate – these are the words with a very similar meaning – a set of files and folders that serve as a starting point for an application. There are various examples, such as free templates on Github like create-react-app or react-material-admin, ThemeForest with lots of WordPress themes, Template Monster, Creative-Tim and Flatlogic with premium react, angular, vue templates, and other resources that specialize in web templates, and so on. Flatlogic alone sold at least 20,000 licenses since its launch in 2013. Metronic has more than 100,000 sales. The number of usages of free templates is even higher and is doubtly countable. How many users use create-react-app on a daily basis?

While templates, in my opinion, create real value. Maybe that’s my bias, but I do not know any real-world app built using LCNC alone. Eventually, one needs a custom application as a code, not as a service because having the code gives unlimited opportunities for customizations, scaling, and integration. 

So the point is that the templates market is the one that requires disruption and innovation. Not the LCNC one, since eventually everyone needs to write code. First of all the templates market is alive. Probably the most significant player there is Envato, which alone generates more than $200M of annual revenue, being a profitable company with $36M of profit. My estimation is that the whole market size today is at least $1B of real revenue produced by market players today. But you never hear about this market in the news. It simply works. 

I believe there are so much more investments in LCNC tools, and NO investments in templates/themes, because it is much easier to sell the “silver bullet” of creating web apps without coding to investors since the majority of them are not technical, hence do not understand theses explained in this article. This is also being warmed up by various “studies” projecting LCNC market size to hit $XXXB in some years, while no one speaks about the templates market at all.

This is why we created a tool that generates codebases of full-stack web applications based on some input, such as technology stack, UI design, and database schema. We do not pretend to be fashionable by placing the no-code label on our product, instead, we solve the real problem of a real market that exists here and now.

About the author

Philip Daineka is a computer science professional with more than 13 years of experience in the field of software development. Philip is also a master of economics and the CEO of Flatlogic for the last 8 years. You can follow Philip on Twitter @okendokenn.

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What react admins are affected by the update?

Current 5 React Admin boilerplates are affected by updates:

• Sing App React
• Sing App React Node.js
• Sing App React Java
• Light Blue React
• Light Blue React Node.js

What has changed?

Now the admin boilerplates use React 17, and Bootstrap 5. Additionally, we have updated the colors, typography, and some minor UI parts.

And also we made several minor changes that make this admin dashboard template up-to-date.

Updated Amcharts to the latest version
Updated Fullcalendar to the latest version
Updated Axios
Updated Sortable library to the latest stable version
Updated Awesome Bootstrap checkbox that it now supports Bootstrap 5

Thus now, Sing App React and Light Blue React Admin Templates are one of the most modern react admin on the market in terms of technologies used under the hood and the look of the boilerplate.

Summing Up

For the rest of our React templates, check our marketplace. If you face any difficulties setting up this or that template or admin dashboard, please feel free to leave us a message on our forum, Twitter or Facebook. We will respond to your inquiry as quickly as possible!

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What can you do with the free plan for the CRUD tool

You can expect the same features and functionality whether you choose our Paid access or Free option. But obviously with some limitations:

• Create up to 10 applications on different technology stacks: React, Vue, Angular, Node.js, Laravel, PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Create a full-fledged CRUD application (up to 3 database entities) with code written using best practices
• Download or push source code to Github an unlimited number of times
• Preview the code before downloading/pushing it on Github
• Get updates on libraries used in your app stack
• Host instantly your application demo and see the latest deployment logs

Free vs Paid access to the CRUD tool: Choose what you need

Since launching Flatlogic, we see constant growth in the creation of CRUD applications. But we understand that not all of our users need the full functionality of the CRUD tool. We also understand that in the modern world of developer tools, before investing huge resources in mastering new tools, you want to get some value here and now for free – with this motivation we introducing a free plan for creating CRUD applications.

Thus the free plan fits your needs. If you:

• Want quickly prototype the CRUD app
• Want to test or get familiar with new technologies before investing much time in them
• See the best practice on how to organize modern CRUD apps using best practices
• Prefer to use starter kits/boilerplates while starting CRUD web applications

And while our Professional plan has always offered a more enhanced way to create CRUD applications, it also required additional steps to understand your needs before getting access.

Now, you can sign up for a free account for a CRUD tool, create applications in minutes, and understand without any hassle whether Flatlogic fits your needs or not.

Create a CRUD app for free!

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We are finally happy to share with you the results of the world’s first study on how developers start a web application in 2022. For this research, we wanted to do a deep dive into how engineers around the globe are starting web apps, how popular the use of low-code platforms and what tools are decisive in creating web applications.

To achieve this, we conducted a survey with 191 software engineers of all experience around the globe. We asked questions around the technology they use to start web applications.

Highlights of the key findings:

• The usage of particular technologies in the creation of web apps is closely related to engineers’ experience. New technologies, such as no-code/low-code solutions, GraphQL, and non-relational databases, appeal to developers with less expertise;
• Engineers with less experience are more likely to learn from online sources, whereas developers with more expertise in software development prefer to learn from more conventional sources such as books;
• Retool and Bubble are the most popular no-code/low-code platforms;
• React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Amazon AWS, and Bootstrap are the most popular web application development stacks.

To read the full report, including additional insights, and full research methodology, visit this page. 

With Flatlogic you can create full-stack web applications literally in minutes. If you’re interested in trying Flatlogic solutions, sign up for free. 

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What products are affected by the update?

Currently, the updates were released on 2 products:

• Angular Material Admin Template Full
• Angular Material Admin .NET Core

What has changed?

The main update is touch the version of Angular itself, now the template are built on 13 version instead of 11.

And also we made several minor changes that make this admin dashboard template up-to-date.

Updated the Angular CLI to 13
Update Angular Material;
Updated different packages;
Updated Angular Core to 13 version.

Moving forward and Summing Up

We will be constantly updating all our Angular templates. For sure we will release this year a template based on Angular 14.

Rest of our Angular templates your can find here: Flatlogic marketplace. If you face any difficulties setting up this or that template or admin dashboard, please feel free to leave us a message on our forum, Twitter or Facebook. We will respond to your inquiry as quickly as possible!

And also check our platform where you can create Angular CRUD apps literally in minutes! 

Happy developing!

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The war in Ukraine is a ghastly tragedy and an outrageous event that can never be justified. The war has catastrophic effect on the lives of millions of people not only in Ukraine , but around the whole world. The team of Flatlogic strongly condemns all acts of violence wherever they appear.

Our headquarters are located in Lithuania, we are originally from Belarus, but we also have lots of our employees in Ukraine. That’s why we were directly affected by these appalling events. We understand the pain and devastating losses of Ukrainians and try to help in a way we can by sharing a free year of access to Flatlogic platform for all developers (software engineers, IT companies) from Ukraine. Please contact us to get free access to Flatlogic platform.

We are committed to supporting the people of Ukraine and continue to work in conjunction with our software engineers, customers, and partners as a global community to help Ukraine and the people of Ukraine everywhere.  

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The React Native solution was used in the development of Facebook Ads, Instagram, Pinterest, Skype, Airbnb, Yeti Smart Home, Uber Eats, and many more. The projects speak for themselves.

With the development of React Native technology and gaining more and more trust from the community, tools began to appear to facilitate and accelerate development based on the technology – such as ready-made React Native libraries and UI components.

This guide aims to review the most sought-after React Native UI component libraries available to web developers. Before we delve into these libraries, it’s crucial to understand what React Native is: a platform conceived by Facebook to make mobile application development both faster and more cost-effective. Today, React Native stands out as one of the premier solutions for crafting cross-platform mobile applications, demonstrating its significance in the realm of business software where efficiency, scalability, and cross-platform compatibility are paramount.

What is a React Native UI component?

React Native UI component stands as a modular piece of the user interface puzzle, empowering React developers to craft native mobile applications employing the same methodologies utilized for web app development. These components facilitate the creation of high-performance, native mobile apps through a declarative coding approach familiar to those experienced with React’s web development paradigm. The arsenal of React Native UI components encompasses a variety of elements, including buttons, text inputs, pickers, segmented controls, and navigation bars, each contributing to a cohesive and interactive user experience. By leveraging these components, developers can bridge the gap between web and mobile app development, streamlining the process to produce business software solutions that are both efficient and engaging across platforms.

Why use React Native UI component library?

Much like React itself, React Native encourages you to build your UI using isolated components. React Native UI Component libraries and UI toolkits help you save time and build your applications faster using a pre-made set of components.

React Native UI Kit is a very useful thing. It’s a set of ready-made interface elements (and sometimes APIs) you can use when creating your application. Thus, you can release an MVP project in a matter of weeks, saving time on the development of interface components and concentrating on the business logic itself. Of course, there are a lot fewer UI Kits for React Native than there are for React.js, but all of these existing ones are made by professionals, each in the same style.

How to choose a React Native UI component?

To choose a library or an already written application with ready-made React Native UI components, you can use the following decision-making criteria:

• Price
• Easy to start
• Popularity (stars on GitHub)
• Quality, support, and service speed
• Performance
• Design
• Ease of use
• Documentation

Top React Native UI components

Let’s move on to our React Native UI components list. While choosing the following tools we have kept in mind things like trustworthiness, price, documentation, and other important factors one uses for evaluating software.

React Native Starter Kit

Website: https://flatlogic.com/templates/react-native
GitHub stars: 1k
Price: Free, $99.95, $449.95
License: Mozilla Public License 2.0
Demo: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reactnativestarter.app
Type of support: Dedicated support via email
Documentation: Full documentation

React Native Starter is a mobile application template that contains many ready-to-use components and pages, including theme support.  The product is a mobile application template with lots of built-in components like a sidebar, navigation, form elements, etc – all you need to start building your mobile app faster. You won’t spend lots of time building your app from scratch.

This starter kit is perfect for eCommerce applications, offering lifetime updates and support. The design itself is clean, modern, and eye-catching. Trends like color gradients and simple curves are also there.

Key features:

• Supports iOS and Android;
• 16 pre-built components;
• Chat application;
• Multiple color schemes;
• Selection of UI elements;
• Modular architecture;
• Easy analytics integration (GA, Firebase, etc);
• Sign in/signup screens;
• 6 Color Themes;
• Simple customization (using themes and plop generator);
• Built without Expo.

React Native Elements

Website: https://react-native-elements.github.io/react-native-elements/
GitHub stars: 22.2k
Price: Free
License: MIT
Demo: https://expo.io/@monte9/react-native-elements-app
Type of support: Community support via GitHub issues
Documentation: Full documentation

React Native Elements is a cross-platform React Native UI toolkit that puts together several great open-source UI components made by developers. Here’s what the library’s authors state: “The idea with React Native Elements is more about component structure than actual design, meaning less boilerplate in setting up certain elements but full control over their design”. This seems appealing to both new developers and seasoned veterans.

The package includes a whole basket of components such as pricing, badge, overlay, divider, and platform-specific search bars. They are easy to use and quite customizable. The props for all the components are defined in one central location, which makes it possible to easily update or modify components. Additionally, it can serve as a platform connecting small teams developing commercial React Native apps with open-source contributions.

If you’re going to design an application that looks universal across platforms, this is a perfect option. The documentation clearly explains how to customize the available components with simplicity, and comes with a set of beautiful icons.

Key facts:

• All-in-one UI kit;
• Supports iOS and Android;
• Supports Expo;
• Comprehensive documentation;
• A decent list of small components like avatars, buttons, form elements, icons, typography, and sliders;
• Complex elements like pricing, rating, card, search bar, checkbox, and list items.

NativeBase

Website: https://nativebase.io/
GitHub stars: 13.9k
Price: Free
License: Apache License 2.0
Demo: https://expo.io/@geekyants/nativebasekitchensink
Type of support: Community support via GitHub issues
Documentation: Full documentation

NativeBase is a collection of essential cross-platform React Native components: a good place to start building your app. The components are built with React Native combined with some JavaScript functionality with customizable properties. NativeBase is fully open-source and has 12,000+ stars on GitHub.

When using NativeBase, you can use any native third-party libraries out of the box. The project itself comes with a rich ecosystem around it, from useful starter kits to customizable theme templates. Here’s a nice starter kit: the template acts as a wrapper on most of the native React components (such as buttons, text fields, views, keyboard views, list views, etc), and enriches them by adding extra functionality (e.g. rounded corners, shadows, etc).

What it offers:

• Easy component styling;
• Wide range of component options;
• Use any native third-party libraries;
• Import custom components;
• Intuitive component structure;
• 3 preset themes (Platform, Material, and CommonColor);

Lottie Wrapper for React Native

Website: https://github.com/react-native-community/lottie-react-native
GitHub stars: 15k
Price: Free
License: Apache License 2.0
Demo: –
Type of support: Community support via GitHub issues
Documentation: Full documentation

Lottie is a mobile library that parses Adobe After Effects animations natively on mobile. It works by exporting animation data in JSON format from an After Effects extension, BodyMovin. This extension is bundled with a JS player to render animations on the web.

Lottie libraries and plugins are available for free. You can also use the curated collection of animation files to make your apps attractive and interesting. The animation files are small in size and are in vector format, meaning that you won’t experience any impact on your app performance. At the same time, it can spice up your UI and make it more visually appealing.

React Native Vector Icons

Website: https://oblador.github.io/react-native-vector-icons/
GitHub stars: 13.5k
Price: Free
License: Apache License 2.0
Demo: –
Type of support: Community support via GitHub issues
Documentation: Full documentation

This library is a set of customizable icons for React Native with support for NavBar/TabBar/ToolbarAndroid, image source, and full styling. The library provides pre-made bundled icon sets out of the box, and here are full examples of all the icons in the library.

The package supports TabBar and Toolbar Android, as well as the image source and multi-style font. It draws on React Native’s animated library combining it with an icon to create an animated component.

React Native Gifted Chat

Website: https://github.com/FaridSafi/react-native-gifted-chat
GitHub stars: 11.6k
Price: Free
License: MIT License
Demo: –
Type of support: Community support via GitHub issues
Documentation: Full documentation

React-native-gifted-chat offers fully customizable components, multiline text input, avatars, copying messages to the clipboard, attachment options, etc. Written with TypeScript, it includes fully customizable components that help load earlier messages, copy messages to clipboards, and more. There’s an InputToolbar too, helping users skip the keyboard.

To enhance the user experience, it enables Avatar as the user’s initials, localized dates, multi-line TextInput, quick reply messages (bot), and system messages. There’s support for Redux too.

React Native Mapview

Website: https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-maps
GitHub stars: 13.1k
Price: Free
License: MIT License
Demo: –
Type of support: Community support via GitHub issues
Documentation: Full documentation

One of the React Native component libraries that offers map components for Android and iOS is React Native Mapview. Here, common features on any map (such as markers and polygons) are specified as children of the Mapview component.

There’s a lot you can do to customize the map style. You’ll be able to change map view position, track region/location, and make points of interest clickable on Google Maps. You can enable zooming in to specified markers or coordinates or even animate them. If you assign an animated region value to the prop, Mapview can utilize the Animated API to control the map’s center and zoom. Unless you specify custom markers, default markers will be rendered.

UI Kitten – React Native UI Library 

Website: https://akveo.github.io/react-native-ui-kitten/
GitHub stars: 9k
Price: Free
License: MIT License
Demo: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.akveo.kittenTricks
Type of support: Dedicated support for the paid version
Documentation: Full documentation

React Native UI Kitten – a React Native implementation of the Eva Design system. It offers a set of about 20 general-purpose components styled in the same way to take care of visual appearance. There are a lot of standalone components available as well. The library is based on the Eva Design System, containing a set of general-purpose UI components styled similarly.

UI Kitten stores style definitions separately from business logic. UI elements are styled in the same manner. This concept is similar to CSS, where style classes are separate from the code.

Shoutem

Website: https://shoutem.github.io/
Price: Free
License: MIT License
Demo: –
Type of support: Community support via GitHub issues
Documentation: Full documentation

Shoutem is an app-building platform that works by using extensions or modular building blocks, somewhat like building a website with plugins on WordPress. Extensions include galleries for photos and videos, products, events, restaurant menus, and more.

Shoutem offers many mobile back-end services such as analytics, user authentication, layouts, push notifications, and more. Also, there are many well-coded themes for you to use and customize.

This open-source UI toolkit helps you design professional-looking solutions. Each component has a predefined style and can be composed with others. These predefined components are elegant but seem a bit more biased towards iOS-style guidelines. Along with components, it comes with basic Animation that is suitable for using its own UI toolkit and themes to build amazing React Native applications.

Key features:

• 20+ UI components;
• Variety of app themes;
• Parallax effects;
• Transition animations;
• Large extension library.

React Native Paper

Website: https://reactnativepaper.com/
GitHub stars: 9k
Price: Free
License: MIT License
Demo: –
Type of support: Community support via GitHub issues
Documentation: Full documentation

React Native Paper is a cross-platform UI component library that follows the Material Design guidelines. Global theming support and an optional Babel plugin to reduce bundle size are also there.

Paper is cross-platform and works on both web and mobile. There are components and interactions to suit almost every use-case scenario. Most details, including animations, accessibility, and UI logic are taken care of. 

Here are the main features of Paper: it follows material design guidelines, it works on both iOS and Android following platform-specific guidelines and it also has full theming support.

React Native Material Kit

Website: http://xinthink.github.io/react-native-material-kit/
GitHub stars: 4.7k
Price: Free
License: MIT License
Demo: –
Type of support: Community support via GitHub issues
Documentation: Full documentation

Inside the React Native Material Kit, there are buttons, cards, range sliders, and text fields. You’ll also see spinners and progress bars to display loading, as well as toggles for switches, radio buttons, and checkboxes.

React Native Material Kit provides a complete Material Design solution for the UI and is better maintained than other UI kits available for React Native. It works great even on an iOS device by giving an accurate Android UI feel. It does provide an API to develop your customized components.

Key facts:

• Material Design-based components;
• Dynamic components that are not available in some frameworks;
• Advanced API to build custom components.

Nachos UI Kit

Web-site: https://avocode.com/nachos-ui
GitHub stars: 2k
Price: From 15$ per month
License: MIT License
Demo: –
Type of support: Community support via GitHub issues
Documentation: Full documentation

Nachos UI provides over 30 UI components that are available in plug-and-play mode. It does provide some nice-looking components that can be customized. 

The product facilitates customizable UI components that work on the web. It also provides Jest Snapshot testing and uses a prettier. The components were coded using Avocode, which is a fully-featured platform for sharing, hands-off, and inspecting Photoshop and Sketch designs.

Key features:

• 30+ pre-coded UI components including typography, radio, spinner, slider, card, etc.;
• React Native Web support.

Material Kit React Native

Website: https://www.creative-tim.com/product/material-kit-pro-react-
native/
GitHub stars: <1k
Price: Free, $149
License: MIT License
Demo: https://demos.creative-tim.com/material-kit-pro-react-native/
Type of support: Dedicated support for the paid version
Documentation: Full documentation

Material Kit React Native offers a free native app template with Material Design built with the Galio framework. It’s easy to use, including 100+ handcrafted elements like buttons, cards, navigation, and inputs. All components can take on color variations by making changes to the theme. Additionally, there are five customized plugins and five example pages.

Features:

• Built over Galio.io;
• 200 handcrafted elements;
• Five customized plugins;
• Five example pages.

React Native Material UI

Website: https://github.com/xotahal/react-native-material-ui
GitHub stars: 3.7k
Price: Free
License: MIT License
Demo: https://github.com/xotahal/react-native-material-ui/blob/master/docs/Demo.md
Type of support: Community support via GitHub issues
Documentation: Limited documentation

The React Native Material UI offers about 20 components for React Native. The components include action buttons, avatars, subheaders, drawers, dividers, toolbars, and more. These components are highly customizable and use Material Design in their construction.

The components are self-supporting and will integrate (and only integrate) the styles they need to display. They are independent of any global stylesheets. Material-UI is developed for mobile-first application UI design.

Some of the free UI Kits for product teams you may also check here.

Conclusion

These are the best React Native UI Kits on the market we’ve selected for you. The most advanced solutions, such as the React Native Starter Kit or NativeBase, are presented in the first part. In the second part, we have collected projects you can integrate into your existing project as a good addition. 

All of these tools make your development much faster and more convenient. We recommend you do your analysis before choosing the best library for your project. This way you will know for sure what suits your project and needs better.

If you’d like to integrate a library into your existing React Native project, or if you plan to create a cross-platform app from scratch, be sure to contact us.

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Bonus!

Well after publishing the article, we came across a couple more React Native UI component libraries that we thought were criminal to overlook. Here they are!

RNUI (React Native UI Library)

• Website: https://wix.github.io/react-native-ui-lib/
• GitHub: https://github.com/wix/react-native-ui-lib
• GitHub stars: 4.4k
• Demo: https://snack.expo.dev/@ethanshar/rnuilib_snack?platform=ios&supportedPlatforms=ios,android
• Documentation: https://wix.github.io/react-native-ui-lib/docs/getting-started/setup

This is as self-explanatory a name as it gets. React Native UI Library is commonly known as RNUI or RNUI lib. This was generously implemented by Wix. And when such a major platform makes something their library of choice, you can guess that support and maintenance are never an issue. RNUI supports React Native versions starting with 0.65, which can be handy when transitioning to a newer version. It sports 20+ components. These components are customizable and some can be integrated for a more seamless operation.

When we took a second look at the React Native UI Library, we thought we hadn’t given it justice the first time. It’s a potent component collection, with its 4k stars on GitHub backing it up. Give it a try!

Ignite CLI

• Website: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ignite-cli
• GitHub: https://github.com/infinitered/ignite
• GitHub stars: 13.7k
• Demo: https://npm.runkit.com/ignite-cli

As the CLI in Ignite’s name implies, the main thing the creators offer is the command-line interface. But don’t let that lead you astray. Ignite comes with components, not only in React Native. It boasts over 12 thousand stars on GitHub and serves as a boilerplate collection for both React Native and Expo.

Here’s a summary of what Ignite comes with:

• React Native
• React Navigation 6
• Reactotron-ready (and pre-integrated with MST)
• TypeScript
• Expo and Expo Web support
• AsyncStorage (integrated with MST for restoring state)
• MobX-React-Lite
• MobX-State-Tree
• applesauce (to talk to REST servers)
• Flipper-ready

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