what if base ui was just html

We did this for Tailwind Plus, can recommend 💯

did you ever benchmark it vs. the react lib?

Not sure if we ever really did that, @malfaitrobin?

That would be so much better than react.

That works for simple use cases. For more complex ones, we need more control over the native top layer.

yeah top-layer is no good

This would be incredibly useful. My personal projects are almost always vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS. I've built many menus, custom dialogs, even full file trees from scratch, but having Base UI as a foundation would be very helpful.

base ui for Astro 🥹

I started something similar before, but paused it after hitting some SSR issues. This makes me want to pick it up again

do it! ssr is pretty good

Yes!! Please fix the web.

I didnt use any client js in my blog

As someone who builds public pages with @astrodotbuild I'd use it right away!

That would be cool

what if base ui was framework agnostic? even worked with vanilla html and js?

that's that you're looking at. this is plain html and js.

looks great! does it have good browser support?

it's ok

will it cancel all the work done for react popup implementation in base ui ?

no. native popover api + anchor positioning don't work. they're no good. i want them to work, and i want to replace base ui code with them, but they're not close to good enough currently, unfortunately.

For the date pickers, I also noticed that the calendar comp was removed and both pull requests were closed. As I understand it, that was an experiment. Do you plan to base them on the Temporal API? That could greatly simplify the implementation while also making it more robust.