downshift 🏎
🏎 A set of primitives to build simple, flexible, WAI-ARIA compliant React autocomplete, combobox or select dropdown components. (by downshift-js)
headlessui
Completely unstyled, fully accessible UI components, designed to integrate beautifully with Tailwind CSS. (by tailwindlabs)
| downshift 🏎 | headlessui | |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 200 | |
| 12,197 | 27,121 | |
| 0.2% | 0.9% | |
| 3.8 | 8.5 | |
| about 1 month ago | 7 days ago | |
| JavaScript | TypeScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
downshift 🏎
Posts with mentions or reviews of downshift 🏎.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-18.
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Just curious about package trends (downshift)
I'm curious why there's been a recent downward trend for the downshift package. Here's the source npm trends
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Are there any downsides in using svelte or sveltekit?
I recently searched for a robust, high-quality, aria conform multi-select dropdown in vanilla js. For React there is react-select or downshift, each with millions of downloads. I couldn't find a good equivalent in vanilla.
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From my point of Vue: Headless components
The concept is not new, it's been discussed and implemented for a couple of years, I first heard of it when Adam Watham, creator of Tailwind CSS, and its team launched Headless UI libraries like downshift by Kent Dodds also used this pattern, just to mention a couple of cases.
- F*ck it: use React for your personal site if you want to
- What do you use for models and other components when using tailwindcss for styling for a react project?
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Beginner's Thread / Easy Questions (April 2021)
Downshift looks better IMO, with hooks with less "fake" hierarchy.. https://github.com/downshift-js/downshift
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Launch HN: MagicBell (YC W21) – embedded notification system for your product
[2] https://github.com/downshift-js/downshift
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Building my own components
There's also Downshift, but you have to build your own UI: https://github.com/downshift-js/downshift
headlessui
Posts with mentions or reviews of headlessui.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-12.
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Tailwind CSS vs. Bootstrap: Which Framework is Better for Your Project?
Tailwind CSS ecosystem features growing resources like Tailwind UI (a component library), Headless UI (unstyled, accessible components), and community-built plugins. It’s maintained by a smaller company (Tailwind Labs) but has very active development and a dedicated community of web developers.
- Best 11 React UI Component Libraries in 2025
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Top 10 best React component libraries in 2025
Website: headlessui.com
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React UI Component Libraries in 2025
An evolution of the popular Headless UI library, now offering more pre-styled components while maintaining its focus on accessibility and customization.
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10 Websites to Get FREE Tailwind Components
Headless UI
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Top 10 Vue.js libraries you should be using in 2025
Headless UI is a design pattern and library that separates the logic and behavior of a user interface component from its visual representation. It provides completely unstyled, fully accessible UI components, designed to integrate beautifully with Tailwind CSS.
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Let's create Data Table with React, TanStack Table and Tailwind CSS. Part 1: Intro and HTML layout
Headless UI for various interface component logic.
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jQuery UI
Guys, didn't you get the memo? We're doing this differently now, we've replaced
https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/blob/main/ui/widgets/tab...
with the much better, much simpler, more readable and not at all depending on 42(!) modules
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/headlessui/blob/main/package...
What joy!
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10 game-changing tools that level up Svelte developers in 2025 💪
Svelte Headless UI is a library of unstyled, accessible UI components, inspired by Tailwind's Headless UI. It gives you all the interactivity without enforcing styles, allowing you to design the components exactly the way you want. With Svelte’s reactivity and this library's flexibility, building complex UI interactions has never been easier. Github repository →
- Flyon UI – Free Tailwind Components Library
What are some alternatives?
When comparing downshift 🏎 and headlessui you can also consider the following projects:
react-autosuggest - WAI-ARIA compliant React autosuggest component
shadcn/ui - A set of beautifully-designed, accessible components and a code distribution platform. Works with your favorite frameworks. Open Source. Open Code.
react-typeahead - Pure react-based typeahead and typeahead-tokenizer
daisyui - 🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼 The most popular, free and open-source Tailwind CSS component library
compose-state - Compose multiple setState or getDerivedStateFromProps updaters in React
flowbite - Open-source UI component library and front-end development framework based on Tailwind CSS