data-client VS reakit

Provides data fetching, but handles mutations better by using reactive paradigms.

You can still do SSR with normal client-side behavior if you use a React 18 SSR compatible library

https://resthooks.io/ is inspired by Backbone models

The control flow can be pretty straightforward once you have middleware integration; which you can see with async state management becoming as simple as a one-liner

You're probably better off using a tool that is built with code reuse in mind like https://resthooks.io

Probably the most important thing is to have a normalized data cache to save yourself tons of data-bug headaches. I use https://resthooks.io/ myself because it used inferred typing safety meaning I don't have to do any extra definitions or even use typescript and it will tell me what types I should expect. But you could also roll your own normalization using https://github.com/paularmstrong/normalizr with a state management tool like redux

If the data ever changes I prefer using Rest Hooks to ensure data integrity without having to manually write state updates for every usage

The advantage really comes when you using libraries like https://resthooks.io/ that enforce and infer strong types without effort from you. Then all you're doing is writing the types. Even cases like typos get removed due to typeahead helping you out. This is especially helpful in large projects with many developers as you'll likely be frequently working with types someone else defined and you don't know their members off the top of your head.

rest-hooks - Delightful data fetching for React.

🔍 Site ⭐ GitHub

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.