react-select VS downshift 🏎

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.

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