ant-design/docs/react/introduce.en-US.md

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title: Ant Design of React
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Following the Ant Design specification, we developed a React UI library `antd` that contains a set of high quality components and demos for building rich, interactive user interfaces.

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## Features

- An enterprise-class UI design language for web applications.
- A set of high-quality React components out of the box.
- Written in TypeScript with complete defined types.
- The whole package of development and design resources and tools.

## Environment Support

- Modern browsers and Internet Explorer 9+ (with [polyfills](https://ant.design/docs/react/getting-started#Compatibility))
- Server-side Rendering
- [Electron](http://electron.atom.io/)

## Version

- Stable: [![npm package](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/antd.svg?style=flat-square)](https://www.npmjs.org/package/antd)

You can subscribe to this feed for new version notifications: https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design/releases.atom

## Installation

### Using npm or yarn

**We recommend using npm or yarn to install**, it not only makes development easier, but also allow you to take advantage of the rich ecosystem of Javascript packages and tooling.

```bash
$ npm install antd
```

```bash
$ yarn add antd
```

If you are in a bad network environment, you can try other registries and tools like [cnpm](https://github.com/cnpm/cnpm).

### Import in Browser

Add `script` and `link` tags in your browser and use the global variable `antd`.

We provide `antd.js` `antd.css` and `antd.min.js` `antd.min.css` under `antd/dist` in antd's npm package. You can also download these files directly from [![CDNJS](https://img.shields.io/cdnjs/v/antd.svg?style=flat-square)](https://cdnjs.com/libraries/antd), [![](https://data.jsdelivr.com/v1/package/npm/antd/badge)](https://www.jsdelivr.com/package/npm/antd) or [unpkg](https://unpkg.com/antd/dist).

> **We strongly discourage loading the entire files** this will add bloat to your application and make it more difficult to receive bugfixes and updates. Antd is intended to be used in conjunction with a build tool, such as [webpack](https://webpack.github.io/), which will make it easy to import only the parts of antd that you are using.

> Note: you should import moment before using antd.js after `3.0`.

## Usage

```jsx
import { DatePicker } from 'antd';
ReactDOM.render(<DatePicker />, mountNode);
```

And import stylesheets manually:

```jsx
import 'antd/dist/antd.css'; // or 'antd/dist/antd.less'
```

### Use modularized antd

> Note: antd support ES6 tree shaking by default even without the below plugin.

- Use [babel-plugin-import](https://github.com/ant-design/babel-plugin-import) (Recommended)

  ```js
  // .babelrc or babel-loader option
  {
    "plugins": [
      ["import", { "libraryName": "antd", "libraryDirectory": "es", "style": "css" }] // `style: true` for less
    ]
  }
  ```

  This allows you to import components from antd without having to manually import the corresponding stylesheet. The antd babel plugin will automatically import stylesheets.

  ```jsx
  // import js and css modularly, parsed by babel-plugin-import
  import { DatePicker } from 'antd';
  ```