# muiMaterial `muiMaterial` brings [Material UI](https://mui.com/material-ui/getting-started/), the world’s most popular React UI framework, to R and Shiny. ## Why muiMaterial? ### Go beyond Bootstrap If Shiny apps look all the same, it is because most use Bootstrap. `muiMaterial` replaces it with Material UI’s vast library of components, giving you fully customized dashboards and websites in R. Launch a basic dashboard (live [here](https://lgnbhl-muimaterial-simple-dashboard.share.connect.posit.cloud)): ``` r muiMaterial::muiMaterialExample("dashboard-simple") ``` Or the R replica of the official MUI dashboard template (live [here](https://lgnbhl-muimaterial-mui-template-dashboard.share.connect.posit.cloud/)): ``` r muiMaterial::muiMaterialExample("mui-template-dashboard") ``` ### Built for AI AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, or GitHub Copilot have been trained on enormous amounts of MUI code. Each MUI component maps directly to an R function: React’s `