> Product teams that are smart are getting off the treadmill. Whatever framework you currently have, start investing in getting to know it deeply.
I've been working on a SaaS product for a couple of years and when I first started I picked up MUI as my FE framework. Since then on at least 5 different occasions I looked into replacing it and have always landed back on "no lets keep it".
MUI is far from a perfect FE framework but for me I realized it worked really well because it helped me create pretty professional looking UI's without any designer assistance. And over the years I've learned many of the quirks around the framework and have implemented various tooling to mitigate any shortcomings.
I'm still looking for an eventual replacement though, for a while I thought I was going to jump on Google's official material design spec but then they stopped working on the web version. At this point I'm probably going to gradually adopt TailwindCSS (probably over the course of a year or more) and eventually move my FE to an entirely custom build solution.
But even thinking about this change I still come back to "what's the point?". Customers like my product and use it ever day, MUI has it's shortcomings but it's not something terrible I need to jump ship from. I'm sure I will eventually replace MUI but so far it's been chugging along just fine.
I've been working on a SaaS product for a couple of years and when I first started I picked up MUI as my FE framework. Since then on at least 5 different occasions I looked into replacing it and have always landed back on "no lets keep it".
MUI is far from a perfect FE framework but for me I realized it worked really well because it helped me create pretty professional looking UI's without any designer assistance. And over the years I've learned many of the quirks around the framework and have implemented various tooling to mitigate any shortcomings.
I'm still looking for an eventual replacement though, for a while I thought I was going to jump on Google's official material design spec but then they stopped working on the web version. At this point I'm probably going to gradually adopt TailwindCSS (probably over the course of a year or more) and eventually move my FE to an entirely custom build solution.
But even thinking about this change I still come back to "what's the point?". Customers like my product and use it ever day, MUI has it's shortcomings but it's not something terrible I need to jump ship from. I'm sure I will eventually replace MUI but so far it's been chugging along just fine.