---
order: 1
title: Getting Started
---

Ant Design React is dedicated to providing a **good development experience** for programmers. Make sure that you had installed [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/)(> 8.0.0) correctly.

> Before delving into Ant Design React, a good knowledge base of [React](https://reactjs.org) and [JavaScript ES2015](http://babeljs.io/docs/learn-es2015/) is needed.

---

## First Example

There is the simplest example to show usage of Ant Design React.

<iframe src="https://codesandbox.io/embed/wk04r016q8?fontsize=14" style="width:100%; height:500px; border:0; border-radius: 4px; overflow:hidden;" sandbox="allow-modals allow-forms allow-popups allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>

### 1. Create one codesandbox

Visit http://u.ant.design/codesandbox-repro to create a codesandbox, don't forget to press save button.

### 2. Using antd component

Replace the content of `index.js` with the following code.
As you can see, there is no difference between antd's components and usual React components.

```jsx
import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import { DatePicker, message } from "antd";
import "antd/dist/antd.css";
import "./index.css";

class App extends React.Component {
  state = {
    date: null,
  };

  handleChange = date => {
    message.info(`Selected Date: ${date.format("YYYY-MM-DD")}`);
    this.setState({ date });
  };

  render() {
    const { date } = this.state;
    return (
      <div style={{ width: 400, margin: "100px auto" }}>
        <DatePicker onChange={this.handleChange} />
        <div style={{ marginTop: 20 }}>
          Selected Date: {date ? date.format("YYYY-MM-DD") : "None"}
        </div>
      </div>
    );
  }
}

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById("root"));
```

### 3. Explore in more components

You can look up compnents in side menu, find one like [Alert](/components/alert). Plenty of examples are provided in component page,
API documentation too.

Click the corner icon at first example, there are source codes to use out of box. Now you are try import `Alert` in previous codesandbox:

```diff
- import { DatePicker, message } from 'antd';
+ import { DatePicker, message, Alert } from 'antd';
```

Add jsx part in `render` function.

```diff
  <DatePicker onChange={value => this.handleChange(value)} />
  <div style={{ marginTop: 20 }}>
-   Selected Date: {date ? date.format('YYYY-MM-DD') : 'None'}
+   <Alert message={`Selected Date: ${date ? date.format('YYYY-MM-DD') : 'None'}`} type="success" />
  </div>
```

Then you can see the result at preview section.

<img width="420" src="https://gw.alipayobjects.com/zos/antfincdn/QjCr7oLcpT/c7ce72d2-601e-4130-a33b-456d4652bb2d.png" alt="codesandbox screenshot" />

OK! Now you know how to use antd components in a clear way, welcome to explore more usages in this codesandbox.
We also strongly recommend to use codesandbox to provide a reproducible demo while reporting a bug.

### 4. Next Step

In real world you gonna need a whole package of `compile/build/deploy/lint/debug` development workflow
which you can read ariticles afterwards or try other scaffolds provided below:

- [Ant Design Pro](http://pro.ant.design/)
- [antd-admin](https://github.com/zuiidea/antd-admin)
- [d2-admin](https://github.com/d2-projects/d2-admin)
- more scaffolds at [Scaffold Market](http://scaffold.ant.design/)

## Compatibility

Ant Design React supports all the modern browsers and IE9+.

| [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alrra/browser-logos/master/src/edge/edge_48x48.png" alt="IE / Edge" width="24px" height="24px" />](http://godban.github.io/browsers-support-badges/)</br>IE / Edge | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alrra/browser-logos/master/src/firefox/firefox_48x48.png" alt="Firefox" width="24px" height="24px" />](http://godban.github.io/browsers-support-badges/)</br>Firefox | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alrra/browser-logos/master/src/chrome/chrome_48x48.png" alt="Chrome" width="24px" height="24px" />](http://godban.github.io/browsers-support-badges/)</br>Chrome | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alrra/browser-logos/master/src/safari/safari_48x48.png" alt="Safari" width="24px" height="24px" />](http://godban.github.io/browsers-support-badges/)</br>Safari | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alrra/browser-logos/master/src/opera/opera_48x48.png" alt="Opera" width="24px" height="24px" />](http://godban.github.io/browsers-support-badges/)</br>Opera | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alrra/browser-logos/master/src/electron/electron_48x48.png" alt="Electron" width="24px" height="24px" />](http://godban.github.io/browsers-support-badges/)</br>Electron |
| --------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | --------- |
| IE9, IE10, IE11, Edge| last 2 versions| last 2 versions| last 2 versions| last 2 versions| last 2 versions

We offset very limit support for IE9/10, some styles and animation would be mininal under them, also we are using Flex layout in few components.

> Note, different with Ant Design, Ant Design Pro support to IE11+.

Polyfills are needed for IE browsers, we recommend [babel-preset-env](https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-preset-env) for it. You can set `targets` config if you are using [umi](http://umijs.org/).

Ant Design 3.0 support both React 15 and 16 now though, we strongly suggest React 16 for better performance and few bugs.

#### IE8 note

> We don't support IE8 after `antd@2.0`.

## Customized Work Flow

If you want to customize your work flow, we recommend using [webpack](http://webpack.github.io/) to build and debug code.

Also, you can use any [scaffold](https://github.com/enaqx/awesome-react#boilerplates) available in the React ecosystem. If you encounter problems, you can use our [webpack config](https://github.com/ant-tool/atool-build/blob/master/src/getWebpackCommonConfig.js) and [modify it](http://ant-tool.github.io/webpack-config.html).

If you are trying [parcel](https://parceljs.org), here is [a demo repository](https://github.com/ant-design/parcel-antd).

There are some [scaffolds](http://scaffold.ant.design/) which have already integrated antd, so you can try and start with one of these, and even contribute.

## Import on Demand

If you see logs like below screenshot, you might be importing all components by writing `import { Button } from 'antd';`. This will affect your app's network performance.

```
You are using a whole package of antd, please use https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-plugin-import to reduce app bundle size.
```

> ![console warning](https://zos.alipayobjects.com/rmsportal/GHIRszVcmjccgZRakJDQ.png)

However, we can import individual components on demand:

```jsx
import Button from 'antd/lib/button';
import 'antd/lib/button/style'; // or antd/lib/button/style/css for css format file
```

> `antd/es/button` to import es version module for tree shaking.

We strongly recommend using [babel-plugin-import](https://github.com/ant-design/babel-plugin-import), which can convert the following code to the 'antd/lib/xxx' way:

```jsx
import { Button } from 'antd';
```

And this plugin can load styles too, read [usage](https://github.com/ant-design/babel-plugin-import#usage) for more details.

> FYI, babel-plugin-import's `style` option will importing some global reset styles, don't use it if you don't need those styles. You can import styles manually via `import 'antd/dist/antd.css'` and override the global reset styles.

## Customization

- [Customize Theme](/docs/react/customize-theme)
- [Local Iconfont](https://github.com/ant-design/antd-init/tree/master/examples/local-iconfont)