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Downshift

downshift

🏎 A set of primitives to build simple, flexible, WAI-ARIA compliant React autocomplete, combobox or select dropdown components.

Utilities
enhanced input
react
autocomplete
autosuggest
typeahead
dropdown
select
combobox
omnibox
accessibility
Stars
12k
Weekly
2.9M
Open issues
57
Bundle
~25 kB

Installation

npm install downshift

Code example

import { useDownshift } from "downshift";

export function Example() {
  const value = useDownshift();
  return <p>{String(value)}</p>;
}

Pros & cons

Pros

  • Actively maintained by Kent C. Dodds
  • 2.9M weekly downloads. Battle tested
  • First-class TypeScript definitions
  • MIT licensed

Considerations

  • Adds roughly ~25 kB to your bundle
  • Needs client-only rendering in SSR frameworks
  • Not supported in React Native
  • 57 open issues on GitHub

FAQs

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