base web VS reakit

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Uber's

Base web https://baseweb.design/ or Material UI https://mui.com/

Great, thank you! There are many I've already found at first look. Which design system do you think is the best? I always look for the ones that come with code, like Uber's Base and IBM's Carbon Design System both built with React.

I've also played around with Base which has much more flexibility but takes a little more work to use.

We used Base Web to benchmark Ladle and latest Storybook v6.4.19. Base Web is a complex component library and has about 350 stories. The Storybook uses the default bootstrapped settings. The test is made on MBP 2018, i7 2.7 GHz. The time is measured in seconds and less is better.

A standout example of these is Base Web (in npm as baseui), a design system and UI library created by Uber to help devs create beautiful, device-agnostic apps. Base Web consists of a series of React components and is designed to be “reliable, accessible, and extensively customizable.”

Base Web! By far the most underrated UI library, which is open sourced and maintained by Uber. Visually it’s unopinionated because it’s meant to be overridden, and has a nice API for overriding every aspect of it with a robust theming config.

From evergreen : https://evergreen.segment.com/ From uber : https://baseweb.design/

Eg : Uber's design system

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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.

1. Reakit

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.