It has A LOT of components that in turn have a bunch of variations, so everything you need is probably in here. All these components are all really well documented.
Beside the actual components, there is a whole design philosophy behind the choices made. This insures well thought out design an UX where the developer doesn't have to reinvent the wheel.
Theming is "a little harder" because they don't have a build-in way of using CSS in JS and you have to use LESS styling. The recommended way is overriding global styles and setting LESS variables. If we look a the future progress to CSS in JS this is not ideal and the biggest "problem" according to other developers. To use LESS it requires you to either eject the project or jump though a bunch of hoops.
The bundle size is pretty large and multiple sources say that performance isn't that great. During the research the complete Ant Design and documentation site was offline for quite some time.
While creating the real life page I was annoyed by the fact I needed to override the colors of the examples in order to style the page. I really miss a stand alone theme provider so you can style certain sections of your page. I tried to override the LESS vars in a separate file but that didn't work.
The kit is being actively developed by the developers and is considered the second most popular React UI kit. There isn't a roadmap available to see the actual upcoming changes but there has been a steady release cycle.
There are a bunch of resources available on the web from bug fixes and workarounds to an actively monitored Github repo.
You can find a solution to almost every problem or workaround in the web, which helps cut down development time.
| Package size (minzipped) | 345 KB |
| Downloads per day | 594.150 |
| Used in company stacks | 639 |
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