Downshift
A set of primitives to build simple, flexible, WAI-ARIA compliant React autocomplete, combobox or select dropdown components.
Overview
Dive into the world of accessible user interfaces with this powerful library designed for creating autocomplete, combobox, and select components in your applications. Emphasizing flexibility and simplicity, it caters to developers looking to ensure an inclusive experience for all users while maintaining full control over their UI. With support for the latest ARIA design patterns, this solution stands out as a modern tool embraced by the React and Preact communities.
Whether you're implementing a custom select component or an autocomplete input, this library offers structured guidance through its hooks and components. It allows developers to adopt best practices without sacrificing creativity or functionality.
Features
- Accessible Components: Adheres to ARIA design patterns, ensuring your combobox and select components are usable by all users, including those relying on assistive technologies.
- React Hooks: Utilize easy-to-use hooks like
useSelectanduseCombobox, which provide stateful logic for building functional components. - Flexibility: The Downshift component offers a render prop API, allowing for maximum customization in how components are rendered while simplifying user interaction management.
- Multiple Selections: Implement multiple item selection seamlessly with the
useMultipleSelectionhook, complete with options for deleting and navigating through selected items. - Up-to-Date Standards: The library supports the latest ARIA 1.2 combobox patterns, ensuring compliance with modern web accessibility guidelines while being actively maintained.
- Migration Guide: Transition smoothly from previous versions with a comprehensive guide documenting updates and changes for enhanced development efficiency.
- Community-Driven: Open for contributions and feedback, fostering collaboration within the developer community through platforms like Spectrum.
- Comprehensive Documentation: Resource-rich documentation and examples provided to assist developers in getting started and building complex applications effectively.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- React Native
React Native is a framework for building mobile applications using React and JavaScript. It enables developers to write once and deploy to multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, and the web, while providing a native app-like experience to users.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.
