Getting Started with Nextjs

1. Installation#

In your nextjs project, install Chakra UI by running either of the following:

npm i @chakra-ui/react @emotion/react@^11 @emotion/styled@^11 framer-motion@^4

yarn add @chakra-ui/react @emotion/react@^11 @emotion/styled@^11 framer-motion@^4

2. Provider Setup#

After installing Chakra UI, you need to set up the ChakraProvider at the root of your application.

Go to pages/_app.js or pages/_app.tsx (create if it doesn't exist) and add this:

import { ChakraProvider } from '@chakra-ui/react'

function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }) {
  return (
    <ChakraProvider>
      <Component {...pageProps} />
    </ChakraProvider>
  )
}

export default MyApp

ChakraProvider Props#

Name	Type	Default	Description
resetCSS	`boolean`	`true`	automatically includes `<CSSReset />`
theme	`Theme`	`@chakra-ui/theme`	optional custom theme
colorModeManager	`StorageManager`	`localStorageManager`	manager to persist a users color mode preference in
portalZIndex	`number`	`undefined`	common z-index to use for `Portal`

Boom! You're good to go with steps 1 and 2 🚀🚀🚀 However, if you'd love to take it a step further, check out step 3.

3. Optional Setup#

Customizing Theme

If you intend to customise the default theme object to match your design requirements, you can extend the theme from @chakra-ui/react.

Chakra UI provides an extendTheme function that deep merges the default theme with your customizations.

// 1. Import the extendTheme function
import { extendTheme } from '@chakra-ui/react'

// 2. Extend the theme to include custom colors, fonts, etc
const colors = {
  brand: {
    900: '#1a365d',
    800: '#153e75',
    700: '#2a69ac',
  },
}

const theme = extendTheme({ colors })

// 3. Pass the `theme` prop to the `ChakraProvider`
function App() {
  return (
    <ChakraProvider theme={theme}>
      <App />
    </ChakraProvider>
  )
}

To further customize components or build your own design system, the theme-tools package includes useful utilities. Install @chakra-ui/theme-tools.

Using Chakra Icons

Chakra provides a set of commonly used interface icons you can use in your project.

If you want to use the icons from Chakra UI, install @chakra-ui/icons.

Follow this guide for customising Chakra Icons Using Chakra UI Icons.

Notes on TypeScript 🚨#

Please note that when adding Chakra UI to a TypeScript project, a minimum TypeScript version of 4.1.0 is required.