FULL REVIEW / Headless components/EST. 2020

Radix Primitives
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Unstyled, accessible building blocks.

Radix Primitives is strongest when headless components is the right foundation and the team values accessibility and composition control over a generic UI grab bag.

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TypeHeadless components

LicenseMIT

Stars16.8k

Downloads9.4M / wk

01 / Best for

Design systems that need full styling control
Accessibility-sensitive interactions such as menus, dialogs, and selects
Teams with design bandwidth to compose their own UI layer

02 / Avoid if

You need finished components instead of primitives
Your team does not have time to design and style interactions

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Decision dossier

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A low-level component library focused on accessibility, behaviour, and composition. Bring your own styles.

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Author: WorkOS
Released: 2020
Pricing model: Open-source primitives; design layer is built by your team
Frameworks: React
Tags: headless / headless components / mit
Repository: 16.8k stars
Freshness: Tracked from radix-ui/primitives and @radix-ui/react-dialog
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