reakit VS office-ui-fabric-react

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Typescript is a mistake. Static typing seemed like such a potentially good thing to add to javascript, but the reality is it's a nightmare to work with. If you don't believe me, go to Reakit's github and tell me the complete set of valid options for creating a tooltip.

As a tech lead (or whoever makes the technical decision), it looks very tempting to adopt the open source UI libraries, if possible. In the React.js land, I used a bit of Charkra UI and Reakit.

I'm currently considering React-aria, HeadlessUI, Radix-ui and Reakit for reimplementing the user-interface for a customer, but i find it hard to choose.

I’ve got some libraries I’m looking into to fill the gap. Currently looking at radix, reakit, and react-spectrum.

reakit - Toolkit for building accessible rich web apps with React

Reakit is a lower-level component library for building accessible high-level UI libraries, design systems and applications with React. Reakit is tiny and fast.

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Regardless of what you use for styling though, you should look into so-called headless ui components. These are hooks and components only focused on functionality and accessibility, which you then use to build your own styled components. Some examples are https://reakit.io/, https://www.downshift-js.com/ and https://headlessui.dev/.

For common components, I can't recommend Reakit enough. It's a keyboard accessible, unstyled component library with dialogs, popovers, and much more. I use it for all of my personal projects nowadays. Combined with Framer Motion for animation and Styled Components for styling, it's a killer mix.

For example, all the following design systems can be used without tooling (some of them provide ready-to-use bundles, others can be used through import maps): Google's Material Web, Microsoft's Fluent UI, IBM's Carbon, Adobe's Spectrum, Nordhealth's Nord, Shoelace, etc.

We are migrating to Fluent v9, which has notable performance benefits with CSS-in-JavaScript. More information on React Fluent UX can be found at https://react.fluentui.dev.

Storybook Github Figma Specs Documentation [Component Roadmap]

fluentui/packages/react-components/react-button/stories/Button at master · microsoft/fluentui (github.com)

First, we recommend folks checkout our latest update on the Component Lifecycle Process and our Component Roadmap as it's been updated for FY23Q2.

This is just an overview of the general process and requirements, but if you want to get into some of the details, check out the work that's gone into the Card component epic.

https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/wiki/Fluent-UI-React-Roadmap

Hooks, Charts, etc everything