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Selectless

Custom Select without predefined UI for React using Context

Build Status Code Coverage version MIT License

Install

  yarn add selectless
  npm install selectless

Introduction

There are three different ways to use selectless:

  • On a component level, selectless provides a basic component that you can customize with any css-in-js library or classname/style
  • On a custom component level, each component provided by selectless accepts a custom render prop that allows you to override the default representation/binding of the component
  • On a low level controller, selectless provides an HOC that lets you pass down the context props of selectless as props to your component. This allow a full control on how you want to use selectless.

I hope in a near future that me and/or the community can provide pre-styleds for the various css-in-js solutions existing out there.

Inspiration

This package was inspired by the great react-select and the talk from Ryan Florence "Compound Components"

Why we created this package ?

So the purpose of this package is not to replace react-select in a first place but to provide an alternative compatible with css-in-js libraries that let you have full control over the UI of your select without dealing with the logic behind a select.

In a near futur we hope we(our the community) can provide custom made select UI with selectless as module packages for each css-in-js solutions and even SASS, LESS, etc. You can already find some examples in the storybook.

Basic Usage

// src/components/customSelect.js

import React from 'react'
import {Select, Item, Label, List} from 'selectless'

const simpleOptions = [
  {value: 'paris', label: 'Paris'},
  {value: 'newyork', label: 'New-York'},
  {value: 'tokyo', label: 'Tokyo'},
]

const CustomSelect = (props) => (
  <Select name="context" onChange={onChange} options={simpleOptions} {...props}>
    <Label />
    <List renderItem={Item} />
  </Select>
)

export default CustomSelect

Documentation

Examples

Other Solutions

There was no real solution for this problem when I started this project, then Kent C. Dodds released react-autocompletly (now downshift) that uses the same basic principles and try to solve the same problem. I started working on this a bit earlier but I got lazy and put the project aside. Anyway, right now his project has far more support so you should consider testing it too. :)

React-select is still really good.

LICENSE

MIT