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Getting Started

Installation#

Inside your React project directory, install Chakra UI by running the following:

For create-react-app installation instructions, check this CRA templates guide

Setup Provider#

For Chakra UI to work correctly, you need to setup the ChakraProvider at the root of your application.

Go to the root of your application, and do this:

  • For Next.js, you need to set this up in pages/_app.js or pages/_app.tsx
  • For Gatsby, install the gatsby-plugin-chakra-ui. It does it automatically for you.
  • For Create React App, you need to set this up in index.js or index.tsx

Add Custom theme (Optional)#

If you need to customize the default chakra theme to match your design requirements, you can extend the theme from @chakra-ui/core.

Props#

NameTypeDefaultDescription
resetCSSbooleantrueautomatically includes <CSSReset />
themeTheme@chakra-ui/themeoptional custom theme
colorModeManagerStorageManagerlocalStorageManagermanager to persist a users color mode preference in
portalZIndexnumberundefinedcommon z-index to use for Portal

That's it, you're good to go!

Notes on TypeScript 🚨#

Please note that when adding Chakra UI to a TypeScript project, a minimum TypeScript version of 3.8.0 is required.

If you're adding Chakra UI to a create-react-app project, this means you'll need to manually upgrade typescript to ^3.8.0.

See the guide for our create-react-app templates if you'd like to generate a Chakra-enabled create-react-app project from scratch.

Contributing#

Please see our contribution guidelines to learn how you can contribute to this project.

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