pmndrs/leva

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6211 stars · 233 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Leva is a React-first GUI component library for building customizable control panels with a single useControls hook. It offers smart input type recognition, 12+ input kinds, plugin extensibility, and zero-setup usage, commonly used for tweaking parameters in creative and 3D web apps.

Use cases

• add a control panel to tweak react-three-fiber scene parameters
• build a settings GUI for my React app
• expose tunable parameters with sliders and color pickers in a demo
• create a debug panel for live-editing component props
• let users adjust animation values interactively in the browser

When to choose

• you need a beautiful, zero-config control panel in a React app
• you want smart automatic input type inference from default values
• you need extensible custom input plugins
• you're building creative coding or 3D demos and want live parameter tweaking

When to avoid

• you're not using React
• you need a production end-user settings UI with full design control rather than a developer tweak panel
• you need a framework-agnostic vanilla JS control panel
• you require long-term stability - the repo notes it is under heavy development

Facets

library · maturity active

gui ui-components state-management developer-tools frontend web-development developer-tools react-components control-panel tweakpane-alternative hooks parameter-controls pmndrs react javascript typescript web

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