[Long-Term Plan] Moving Forward with the React Hooks API

[silviuaavram]

Problem description:

Medium Term Plan

This should be our 6-12 month development plan for downshift-js. I think its API is a great success in providing accessibility and functionality to React Components. We should continue to improve the library in terms of bugfixes, types and features:

• Migrate hooks API to Typescript.
• Mark <Downshift> as deprecated.
• Remove <Downshift>.
• Create useTagList to replace useMultipleSelection.
• Create useMultipleSelect and useMultipleCombobox for better usage experience. Should be based on useSelect, useCombobox and useTaglist.
• Deprecate useMultipleSelection.
• Remove useMultipleSelection.
• Implement hooks for other components using a similar API. Suggestions: useCarousel, useTree, useMenu. Submit your proposals.
• Migrate useCombobox to ARIA 1.2 specification. Remove getComboboxProps. Update examples.

Comments

It's not definitive so I am looking for feedback in terms of prioritisation and features.

[tonypee]

using the * as xxx syntax makes it harder for autocompletion of imports no? would import { useSelect } be possible?

[silviuaavram]

It could, sure @tonypee . I wasn't aware of that, it makes sense. Thanks for the feedback!

[silviuaavram]

So far, we have migrated to ARIA 1.2.

[drewbrend]

Create useMultipleSelect and useMultipleCombobox for better usage experience. Should be based on useSelect, useCombobox and useTaglist.

+1 for this. In our design system we use downshift's hooks and found we needed to combine the multi selection hook with the relevant select/combobox hook to improve usability for our consumers. We expose the equivalent of:

• useSelect
• useCombobox
• useMultipleSelect
• useMultipleCombobox

Is this going to make it into v8? with some other the other v8 changes we might be able to greatly simplify our implementation. 🤞

[silviuaavram]

V8 has enough changes as it is, it's going to be released with the current ones and we can create another major release with the new hooks. Thanks for the feedback!