How to import material-ui components? - reactjs

Question

Heavily using material-ui in my app, is there a way to avoid doing imports in each app component like this?
import Typography from "#material-ui/core/Typography";
import Box from "#material-ui/core/Box";
import Grid from "#material-ui/core/Grid";
import Container from "#material-ui/core/Container";
....
or this:
import {Typography, Box, Grid, Container} from "#material-ui/core";
Is there such thing like this? So that I don't need to import each component?
import * from "#material-ui/core"
Thanks in advance! :D

Answer 1

Yes, there is an import all in JavaScript. You can do it like so:
import * as Mui from '#material-ui/core';
This puts all of the named exports of #material-ui/core into the Mui "namespace". Then, you can easily access any of the components i.e.:
<Mui.Typography>Test</Mui.Typography>
You can read more about import here.

Answer 2

The first option is not much clean from an import statement perspective, especially when you want to import and use a lot of Mui components, but as you use path imports to avoid pulling in unused modules, gets an optimized bundle size automatically.
The second option (import * from "#material-ui/core"), on the other hand, is the most convenient from a development perspective, and also makes you have a clean import statement, but will make your application packages larger than they import each component separately depending on what part of components you are using.
Moreover, there is a large scale application you need to import from different sources of Material-ui:
import {} from '#material-ui/core';
import {} from '#material-ui/icons';
import {} from '#mui/material';
A better optimized approach, is to create a single file in your project where you import each component that you use individually, then export them all under a single namespace:
// src/mui/index.js
export { default as MenuItem } from '#material-ui/core/MenuItem';
export { default as TextField } from '#material-ui/core/TextField';
export { default as Select } from '#material-ui/core/Select';
export { default as ClearIcon} from '#material-ui/icons/Clear';
export { default as FormControl } from '#material-ui/core/FormControl';
export { default as Button } from '#mui/material/Button';
...
Then you can import that file wholesale into each component where you need it:
// ../../MyComponent.js
import {
MenuItem,
TextField,
Select,
ClearIcon,
FormControl
} from 'mui';
Now you have a clean import statement and optimized bundle size as well.
Working with absolute path: I never address components with a relative path (e.i ../../../mui). you can take a look here if you don't know how to use absolute path in React.

Answer 3

Hi you can do this in following way:
create a folder called collections
create a file called index.js under collections folder
write the following code in index.js
export {default as Button} from "#material-ui/core/Button";
export {default as Card} from "#material-ui/core/Card";
export {default as Paper} from "#material-ui/core/Paper";
now import collection like bellow:
import * as collections from './collections';
Your component file will be as:
import React, {Component} from "react";
import * as collections from './collections';
class Box extends Component {
render() {
return (
<div>
<collections.Button>
Test
</collections.Button>
<collections.Card>test</collections.Card>
<collections.Paper>test</collections.Paper>
</div>
);
}
}
export default Box;