Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/alibaba/hooks/vs/bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/alibaba/hooks/vs/bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop.md
Description: hooks and UI-TARS-desktop share 3 technologies: React, React Router, and antd. Both are written in TypeScript.

# hooks vs UI-TARS-desktop

hooks and UI-TARS-desktop share 3 technologies: React, React Router, and antd. Both are written in TypeScript.

- [alibaba/hooks](https://seerepo.com/r/alibaba/hooks): A high-quality & reliable React Hooks library.   https://alibaba.github.io/hooks/
- [bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop](https://seerepo.com/r/bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop): The Open-Source Multimodal AI Agent Stack: Connecting Cutting-Edge AI Models and Agent Infra

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: React, React Router, antd
- Only in hooks: screenfull
- Only in UI-TARS-desktop: electron-store, OpenAI, Electron, idb-keyval, MongoDB, Hono, Express, lowdb, react-router-dom, Anthropic, Mistral AI, MCP, GitHub, Tailwind CSS, jose, js-yaml, sharp, Zod, electron-log, electron-squirrel-startup, class-variance-authority, next-themes, tailwind-merge, Radix UI, sonner, React Hook Form, Framer, medium-zoom, Lucide, react-markdown, @hookform/resolvers, fast-xml-parser, @clack/prompts, jimp, boxen, @hono/node-server, classnames, ansi-to-react, react-icons, zod-to-json-schema, Headless UI, monaco-editor, highlight.js, katex, rehype-highlight, rehype-katex, remark-gfm, remark-github-blockquote-alert, remark-math, @emotion/styled, @nextui-org/react, MUI, react-helmet-async, @mui/icons-material, rehype-raw, LangChain, @tavily/core, turndown, turndown-plugin-gfm, @browserbasehq/stagehand, pixi.js, pixi-filters, react-resizable-panels, Ant Design

## Side by side

| | hooks | UI-TARS-desktop |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 27,385 lines written, 315 code files | 194,656 lines written, 1,137 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With GitHub Copilot | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code |
| Activity | Last push October 27, 2026, 2,137 commits, 14,976 stars | Last push October 9, 2026, 1,113 commits, 39,566 stars |
| Tests | 97 test files. 27.3% of its code files have a test that imports them | 161 test files. 10.9% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, hooks or UI-TARS-desktop?

UI-TARS-desktop, with 194,656 lines written; hooks has 27,385.

The proof: [bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop's code at commit 3ac2cb8](https://github.com/bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop/tree/3ac2cb8d946d78d5ff92ad17b318eaafa18c178c)

### Which has more GitHub stars, hooks or UI-TARS-desktop?

UI-TARS-desktop, with 39,566 stars; hooks has 14,976.

The proof: [bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop on GitHub](https://github.com/bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop)

### Which has more tests, hooks or UI-TARS-desktop?

UI-TARS-desktop, with 161 test files; hooks has 97.

The proof: [bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop's code at commit 3ac2cb8](https://github.com/bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop/tree/3ac2cb8d946d78d5ff92ad17b318eaafa18c178c)

### Which was updated more recently, hooks or UI-TARS-desktop?

hooks: its last push was on October 27, 2026, and UI-TARS-desktop's on October 9, 2026.

The proof: [alibaba/hooks's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/alibaba/hooks/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, hooks or UI-TARS-desktop?

In both, an AI signed 0.1% of their commits.

## Sources

- alibaba/hooks: Read on November 8, 2026, at commit a0c33c2 (https://github.com/alibaba/hooks/tree/a0c33c21caefda40753fe4b3cbb3b1efbabd1a79)
- bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop: Read on November 7, 2026, at commit 3ac2cb8 (https://github.com/bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop/tree/3ac2cb8d946d78d5ff92ad17b318eaafa18c178c)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.