What does a Facade over a third-party UI library (e.g. your own on top of MUI) give you?

Your own stable API and replacing the library in one place

The wrappers make the library's components faster

It's required by the licenses of most UI libraries

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What does a Facade over a third-party UI library (e.g. your own `<Button>` on top of MUI) give you?

✓Correct answer: Your own stable API and replacing the library in one place
2The wrappers make the library's components faster
3It's required by the licenses of most UI libraries

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The app uses only your components with the variants you need, and the library details are hidden. A major version upgrade or migration affects only the wrapper layer. The downside is maintaining the wrappers and not leaking the library's whole API through.

What does a Facade over a third-party UI library (e.g. your own `<Button>` on top of MUI) give you?

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