react-native-sectioned-multi-select VS downshift 🏎

Besides inbuilt React Native form controls like buttons, switches, text inputs, and more, there are many open source community packages that offer pre-developed form controls. You can use existing multi-select dropdown packages or build one from scratch for your React Native app. In this tutorial, we’ll use the popular react-native-sectioned-multi-select package — a better alternative to the react-native-multiple-select package. We’ll also explore how to build a multi-select dropdown from scratch with inbuilt React Native core components.

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.

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