react-hover-video-player VS downshift 🏎

I maintain an open source React component library which heavily uses Cypress component tests and I really enjoy it. The component's behavior is heavily based on being able to load and play videos, so Jest was completely out of the question without having to do ridiculous amounts of mocking. I've had to really push Cypress to the absolute limits of what it can do and some tests are a little flakier than I'd like as a result, but there's just nothing else out there that can really compete. I haven't tried Storybook yet but it looks incredibly interesting, hopefully I'll get a chance to give that a shot soon

I'm curious why there's been a recent downward trend for the downshift package. Here's the source npm trends

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.

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.

I think `downshift` could be considered as the best react-select alternative if you are looking to have more fine-grained control over your component or are looking for a smaller bundle size.

Downshift looks better IMO, with hooks with less "fake" hierarchy.. https://github.com/downshift-js/downshift

[2] https://github.com/downshift-js/downshift

There's also Downshift, but you have to build your own UI: https://github.com/downshift-js/downshift