Radix UI is a free and open-source component library focused on providing accessible and customizable UI primitives and themes for React applications. It emphasizes unstyled components, giving developers full control over styling while ensuring accessibility and best practices are baked in.
Key Features:
- Unstyled Components: Radix UI provides a set of unstyled components, also known as primitives, that offer the basic functionality and accessibility features without imposing any specific styling. This allows developers to easily integrate them into existing design systems or create their own custom styles.
- Accessibility: Accessibility is a core principle of Radix UI. All components are designed to be accessible by default, following WAI-ARIA guidelines and providing keyboard navigation, screen reader support, and proper semantic markup.
- Customization: Radix UI components are highly customizable, allowing developers to modify their appearance and behavior to fit their specific needs. This can be done through CSS, styled-components, or other styling solutions.
- Themes: Radix UI Themes is a separate package that provides a set of pre-designed themes that can be easily applied to Radix UI components. These themes offer a consistent and visually appealing look and feel, while still allowing for customization.
- React Focus Management: Radix UI includes utilities for managing focus within React components, ensuring a smooth and predictable user experience.
Use Cases:
- Building accessible web applications
- Creating custom design systems
- Rapid prototyping of UI components
- Integrating accessible components into existing React projects
