🥢 React Select Zero

Lightweight, accessible, zero-dependency combobox alternative to react-select. Supports single selection, multiselection, search, and full keyboard controls in a handsome 5 KB component (1.8 KB gzipped).

Comparison

react-select-zero sheds most of its weight through zero dependencies, but it also gets a boost from React Hooks, modern JS, and leveraging HTML and browser functionality wherever possible rather than JS logic (e.g.: <button>s are used in many places, which don’t require enter and space keybindings—only an onClick callback).

Name	Minified	Minified + gzip
@manifoldco/react-select-zero	🔥5 KB🔥	1.8 KB
@zendeskgarden/react-selection@6.0.1	26.6 KB	6.6 KB
downshift	21.9 KB	7.1 KB
rc-select	164.3 KB	46.3 KB
react-select	86.6 KB	26.1 KB

🍚 Usage

npm i @manifoldco/react-select-zero

Basic usage

const [selection, setSelection] = useState([]);

return (
  <Select
    name="pokemon"
    options={['Bulbasaur', 'Charmander', 'Squirtle']}
    onChange={setSelection} // ['Bulbasaur']
    value={selection}
  >
    Select a Pokémon
  </Select>
);

Note: onChange always returns an array, even in single selection mode.

Multi selection

const [selection, setSelection] = useState([]);

return (
  <Select
    multi
    name="pokemon"
    onChange={setSelection}
    options={['Bulbasaur', 'Charmander', 'Squirtle']}
    value={selection}
  >
    Select a Pokémon
  </Select>
);

Set initial selection

const [selection, setSelection] = useState(['Bulbasaur']);

return (
  <Select
    name="pokemon"
    onChange={setSelection}
    options={['Bulbasaur', 'Charmander', 'Squirtle']}
    value={selection}
  >
    Select a Pokémon
  </Select>
);

Hide search (shown by default)

const [selection, setSelection] = useState([]);

return (
  <Select
    noSearch
    name="pokemon"
    onChange={setSelection}
    options={['Bulbasaur', 'Charmander', 'Squirtle']}
    value={selection}
  >
    Select a Pokémon
  </Select>
);

Note: search won’t appear if there are fewer than 5 items

Allow creation of new entry (works for single and multi)

const [selection, setSelection] = useState([]);

return (
  <Select
    name="pokemon"
    options={['Bulbasaur', 'Charmander', 'Squirtle']}
    allowCreate
    onChange={setSelection} // ['Bulbasaur', 'Charmander', 'Squirtle', 'Missingno']
    value={selection}
  >
    Select a Pokémon
  </Select>
);

User-created values will appear in the same array. To determine new from existing, you’ll have to scan the options you passed for any differences, e.g.:

onChange={
  (newVal) => {
    const created = newVal.filter(val => !options.includes(val));
    const existing = newVal.filter(val => options.includes(val));
    setCreated(created);
    setExisting(existing);
  }
}

All Props

Name	Type	Default	Description
name	string		Required Form name of this input. Query this like a normal form input. Also assits in a11y.
onChange	(string[]) => void		Required Form callback called when state changes
options	string[]		Required Array of strings to display as options
value	string[]		Required Set selected values
allowCreate	boolean	false	Set <Select allowCreate /> to allow creating new entries (note: noSearch can’t be set)
max	number	Infinity	Set maximum number of items (only works with multi)
multi	boolean	false	Set <Select multi /> to allow multiple selection
noSearch	boolean	false	Set <Select noSearch /> to hide searching (by default shows with > 5 options)
placeholder	string		Specify placeholder text

💅 Styling

This component ships with some lightweight styles to extend. Either import them like so:

import '@manifoldco/react-select-zero/assets/react-select-zero.css';

Or copy the CSS directly, and modify as you wish. There are some CSS variables you can overwrite to control colors & background images.

Alternatively, you can also use Styled Components or your favorite CSS-in-JS solution to extend the existing styles:

import styled from 'styled-components';
import Select from '@manifoldco/react-select-zero';

const StyledSelect = styled(Select)`
  /* overrides go here */
`;

<StyledSelect name="dropdown" options={options} />;

Accessibility

This component ships with the following accessibility features out-of-box:

• listbox role with aria-expanded, aria-haspopup, and aria-multiselectable properties
• Focusable main input
• Keyboard ↓ opens dropdown when focused
• Keyboard ↑/↓ navigation through items
• Keyboard enter to select items
• Keyboard Home/End to jump to beginning/end of list
• Keyboard esc to close the combo box
• Searchable items
• Removal of multiselect items also fully keyboard-navigable

Using labels

This component doesn’t come with a label, but you can add one yourself! This component will pass through any additional properties to the root element that also has [role="listbox"].

import React from 'react';
import Select from '@manifoldco/react-select-zero';

const MySelect = () => (
  <>
    <label htmlFor="country" id="country-label"></label>
    <Select aria-labelledby="country-label" id="country" name="country" options={options} />
  </>
);