react-avatar VS react-select

react-avatar

I went on NPM and found this great little library called react-avatar, which in theory does exactly what I want, but it turns out, it's pretty much useless if you don't provide the right IDs, and those are surprisingly difficult to determine, even if you know a user's full name, email address, and phone number.

I decided that I wanted to use React Select for the player input, specifically React Select Creatable, which allows users to create a new option if the one that they are looking for does not exist. With this approach, if the player that the user is trying to add as one of the game's players is not already in the database, they can add the player directly from the React Select component instead of having to do this though the seperate form for adding a new player.

We actually launched our application using the AsyncCreatableSelect from react-select. However, it has a major UX flaw that is simply causing too many problems for users.

React-Select does this by default, if you don't mind losing the native select behaviour on mobile.

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.

It shows that react-google-places-autocomplete is using the previous version of react-select. Let's check that previous version. Aha! The previous version is not written in TypeScript, and does not have TS types. Let's check the documentation also (always check the documentation!), and they explain how the current version was rewritten in TypeScript.

Anyone here knows how to sort react-select options in alphabetically order?

There is a closed github issue about this topic: https://github.com/JedWatson/react-select/issues/2553

react-select The Select Component for React.