Understanding the 4 methods for overriding styling in Material UI StyleProvider, ThemeProvider, withStyles, and useStyles.

Material UI offers more than just a single way to override its styling. That’s great for us but it can also be very confusing. In this post, I’ll do my best to clear up things and end the confusion.

There are four main methodologies, implemented using pre-built components and hooks, for overriding styling in Material UI:

• StylesProvider
• ThemeProvider
• withStyles
• useStyles

All of the above are valid options but here we’ll try to understand when each of them is more preferable.

Material UI is a great library with one of its greatest strengths being customizability. I’ve used it to build my own customized component library/design system so that I wouldn’t have to repeat myself in every new project.

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