Migrating to v5: getting started
This guide explains how and why to migrate from Material UI v4 to v5.
Material UI v5 migration
- Getting started 👈 you are here
- Breaking changes part one: style and theme
- Breaking changes part two: components
- Migrating from JSS
- Troubleshooting
Introduction
This is the first document in a multi-part series to walk you through upgrading your app from Material UI v4 to v5.
We highly recommend running our codemods for efficiency—these will automatically address many of the breaking changes introduced in v5.
One of the biggest changes in v5 is the replacement of JSS for Emotion as a default styling solution.
Note that you may continue to use JSS for adding overrides to the components (e.g. makeStyles
, withStyles
) even after migrating to v5. Once you've completed the rest of the v5 upgrade, we recommend progressively moving over to the new styling engine.
This process is covered in Migrating from JSS.
Why you should migrate
Material UI v5 includes many bug fixes and improvements over v4.
Chief among these improvements is the new styling engine, which offers significant advancements in performance when it comes to dynamic styles, as well as a more enjoyable developer experience.
Additionally, v5 is the only version that fully supports React 18, so you will need to migrate to take advantage of the latest React features.
To learn more, check out the blog post about the release of Material UI v5.
Supported browsers and Node versions
The targets of the default bundle have changed in v5.
The exact versions will be pinned on release from the browserslist query "> 0.5%, last 2 versions, Firefox ESR, not dead, not IE 11, maintained node versions"
.
The default bundle supports the following minimum versions:
- Node 12 (up from 8)
- Chrome 90 (up from 49)
- Edge 91 (up from 14)
- Firefox 78 (up from 52)
- Safari 14 (macOS) and 12.5 (iOS) (up from 10)
- and more (see .browserslistrc (
stable
entry))
Material UI no longer supports IE 11. If you need to support IE 11, check out our legacy bundle.
Update React & TypeScript version
The minimum supported version of React has been increased from v16.8.0 to v17.0.0.
The minimum supported version of TypeScript has been increased from v3.2 to v3.5.
If your project includes these packages, you'll need to update them to the latest
version:
react-scripts
@types/react
@types/react-dom
Set up ThemeProvider
Before upgrading to v5, please make sure that ThemeProvider
is defined at the root of your application and in tests—even if you are using the default theme—and useStyles
is not called before ThemeProvider
.
Eventually you may want to migrate from JSS to Emotion, but in the meantime you can continue to use JSS with the @mui/styles
package. This package requires ThemeProvider
.
The root of your application should look something like this:
import { ThemeProvider, createMuiTheme, makeStyles } from '@material-ui/core/styles';
const theme = createMuiTheme();
const useStyles = makeStyles((theme) => {
root: {
// some CSS that accesses the theme
}
});
function App() {
const classes = useStyles(); // ❌ If you have this, consider moving it
// inside of a component wrapped with <ThemeProvider />
return <ThemeProvider theme={theme}>{children}</ThemeProvider>;
}
Update MUI packages
Material UI v5 and @mui/styles
Install the Material UI v5 packages.
With npm:
npm install @mui/material @mui/styles
With yarn:
yarn add @mui/material @mui/styles
If you're using @material-ui/lab
or @material-ui/icons
, you will need to install the new packages.
@material-ui/lab
With npm:
npm install @mui/lab
With yarn:
yarn add @mui/lab
@material-ui/icons
With npm:
npm install @mui/icons-material
With yarn:
yarn add @mui/icons-material
Date and time pickers
The date and time picker components have been moved to MUI X. If you are using @material-ui/date-pickers
or the pickers in the @mui/lab
package, you will need to migrate to @mui/x-date-pickers
. See Migration from the lab for details.
Peer dependencies
Next, add the Emotion packages.
With npm:
npm install @emotion/react @emotion/styled
With yarn:
yarn add @emotion/react @emotion/styled
styled-components (optional)
If you want to use Material UI v5 with styled-components instead of Emotion, check out the Material UI installation guide.
Note that if your app uses server-side rendering (SSR), there is a known bug with the Babel plugin for styled-components which prevents @mui/styled-engine-sc
(the adapter for styled-components) from being used.
We strongly recommend using the default setup with Emotion instead.
Replace all imports
With the release of v5, the names of all related packages were changed from @material-ui/*
to @mui/*
as part of our updated branding. See this blog post for details.
Updated package names
@material-ui/core -> @mui/material
@material-ui/unstyled -> @mui/base
@material-ui/icons -> @mui/icons-material
@material-ui/styles -> @mui/styles
@material-ui/system -> @mui/system
@material-ui/lab -> @mui/lab
@material-ui/types -> @mui/types
@material-ui/styled-engine -> @mui/styled-engine
@material-ui/styled-engine-sc ->@mui/styled-engine-sc
@material-ui/private-theming -> @mui/private-theming
@material-ui/codemod -> @mui/codemod
@material-ui/docs -> @mui/docs
@material-ui/envinfo -> @mui/envinfo
Remove old packages
Once you've installed all the necessary packages and ensured that your app still runs, you can safely remove the old @material-ui/*
packages by running npm uninstall @material-ui/*
or yarn remove @material-ui/*
.
Fix CSS specificity (optional)
If you want to apply styles to components by importing a CSS file, you need to bump up the specificity to be able to target the correct components.
Consider the following example:
import './style.css';
import Chip from '@mui/material/Chip';
const ChipWithGreenIcon = () => (
<Chip
classes={{ deleteIcon: 'green' }}
label="delete icon is green"
onDelete={() => {}}
/>
);
In this example, in order to correctly apply a particular style to the delete icon of Chip
, one option is to increase the specificity of your CSS classes, as shown below:
.MuiChip-root .green {
color: green;
}
By contrast, the following CSS snippet will not apply the style to the delete icon:
.green {
color: green;
}
Run codemods
The following codemods will automatically adjust the bulk of your code to account for breaking changes in v5.
Make sure that your application still runs without errors after running each codemod, and commit the changes before continuing to the next step.
preset-safe
This codemod contains most of the transformers that are necessary for migration. It should be only applied once per folder.
npx @mui/codemod v5.0.0/preset-safe <path>
variant-prop
This codemod transforms the <TextField/>
, <FormControl/>
, and <Select/>
components by applying variant="standard"
if no variant is defined—the default variant has changed from "standard"
in v4 to "outlined"
in v5.
// ❌ if you have a theme setup like this, don't run this codemod.
// these default props can be removed later because `outlined` is the default value in v5
createMuiTheme({
components: {
MuiTextField: {
defaultProps: {
variant: 'outlined',
},
},
},
});
If you want to keep variant="standard"
in your components, run this codemod or else configure the corresponding default theme props.
npx @mui/codemod v5.0.0/variant-prop <path>
For more details, check out the variant-prop codemod README.
link-underline-hover
This codemod transforms the <Link />
component by applying underline="hover"
if there is no underline
prop defined—the default underline
has changed from "hover"
in v4 to "always"
in v5.
// if you have theme setup like this, ❌ don't run this codemod.
// this default props can be removed later because `always` is the default value in v5
createMuiTheme({
components: {
MuiLink: {
defaultProps: {
underline: 'always',
},
},
},
});
If you want to keep underline="hover"
, run this codemod or else configure the corresponding default theme props.
npx @mui/codemod v5.0.0/link-underline-hover <path>
For more details, check out the link-underline-hover codemod README.
Address breaking changes
The codemods handle many of the breaking changes, but others must be addressed manually.
Whether or not you choose to use the codemods, you are now ready to move on to the first of two breaking changes documents.