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Using Chakra in Remix

A guide for installing Chakra UI with Remix projects

Templates

Use the remix template below to get started quickly.

Installation

1

Install dependencies

npm i @chakra-ui/react @emotion/react
2

Add snippets

Snippets are pre-built components that you can use to build your UI faster. Using the @chakra-ui/cli you can add snippets to your project.

npx @chakra-ui/cli snippet add
3

Setup emotion cache

Using snippets from the Remix sandbox, you can add the emotion cache to your application.

Emotion cache snippet

4

Setup root

Wrap your application with the Provider component at the root of your application.

This provider composes the following:

  • ChakraProvider from @chakra-ui/react for the styling system
  • ThemeProvider from next-themes for color mode

app/root.tsx

import React from "react"
import ReactDOM from "react-dom/client"
import App from "./App"
import { Provider } from "@/components/ui/provider"

export default function App() {
  return (
    <Provider>
      <Outlet />
    </Provider>
  )
}
5

Update tsconfig

If you're using TypeScript, you need to update the compilerOptions in the tsconfig file to include the following options:

tsconfig.json

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "module": "ESNext",
    "moduleResolution": "Bundler",
    "skipLibCheck": true
  }
}
6

Enjoy!

When the power of the snippets and the primitive components from Chakra UI, you can build your UI faster.

import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button"
import { HStack } from "@chakra-ui/react"

const Demo = () => {
  return (
    <HStack>
      <Button>Click me</Button>
      <Button>Click me</Button>
    </HStack>
  )
}

Known issues

You may encounter the following issues when using Chakra UI with Remix:

Error: There was an error while hydrating. Because the error happened outside of a Suspense boundary, the entire root will switch to client rendering.

This is a known issue related to extension installed in your browser. We recommend testing your application in incognito mode to see if the issue persists.

We welcome contributions to fix this issue.

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