Show HN: Preview and edit Material Kit React (MUI) without a build step

Posted on 16 July 2026 • Tutorial Preview and edit material-kit-react without a build step Author User linb Posts by this author Posts by this author ~7 min read · Tutorial I look at a lot of MUI admin templates. material-kit-react from the minimals people is one I keep going back to. Clean, typed, and the folder structure makes sense. Repo: minimal-ui-kit/material-kit-react. But every time I just want to see it, or change one color to check something, it's the same ritual. git clone, npm install, wait, npm run dev, wait more, tab over to localhost. Few minutes gone, a few hundred MB of node_modules on disk. All that to look at a dashboard. So this time I skipped the build. Opened the folder in CrossUI Studio, rendered src/main.tsx directly. No install, no Vite, no localhost.

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