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Show HN: Base UI v1.0 Unstyled UI Components from the Creators of Radix and MUI (github.com)

16 points by colmtuite ↗ HN
After two years of development (and endless bikeshedding), we’ve finally pushed Base UI v1 out the door.

Base UI is an unstyled UI library for building accessible component libraries and user interfaces with React. 35 accessible, configurable, composable, customizable components with a focus on a11y.

Base UI is already in production at startups like Paper, Zed, and Unsplash, and being trialled by larger companies like GitHub and Vercel. There is a growing community of open-source libs built on top of it, such as Coss UI, Basecn, 9UI, and Pure UI.

Since Base UI doesn’t bundle any styles, it plays nice with Tailwind, CSS Modules, CSS-in-JS, plain CSS, or whatever styling solution you prefer. It also works with JavaScript animation libraries like Motion, or just plain CSS transitions.

The project is backed by MUI (who are profitable and UI-focused), and maintained by a full-time team of 7 engineers, designers, and managers.

https://base-ui.com

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troupo
Someone should study why all UI/design system creators hate text fields so much.

"Unstyled UI" styles text inputs to be invisible on the page

myjumpingsocks
this is great news, i'm so excited to try it. have only heard good things
scoot
Spotted this yesterday on X and already upgraded to v1 from beta.6 without issue (admittedly I'm only using a subset of the components, so YMMV).

Congrats to the team!

belchiorb
Great to see this finally become stable. Congrats to the Base UI team!
jasonthorsness
I love unstyled UI components since you get complete visual control but accessibility still works and that's so easy to screw up and not notice it's broken.

I've used Tailwind headless UI (https://headlessui.com/) and it's great, I'll take a look at this one too for future stuff.

MortyDev
I've been watching this project for months; now that it's been released, I'm thrilled to incorporate it into my projects.