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Sunny Singh

I really like the composability of Reakit as that solves the issue a lot of UI component frameworks tend to have in not being flexible enough. Although personally the only React one I used so far was Material-UI v1.

However, I think it's better in the long term to create your own components and use primitive helpers like Downshift to reuse complex behavior with your own styling applied.

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K

You're right.

I used Bootstrap because it felt really flexible and then, when I started using React, I switched to React-Bootstrap, but it didn't feel as powerfull as plain CSS-Bootstrap, so dropped it again and did my own components with CSS-Bootstrap.

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Łukasz Holeczek

Is your library available on GitHub, I would like to try it because we also create our own Bootstrap CSS based library for React.js github.com/coreui/coreui-react/

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K

I didn't do a library. I use react-bootstrap and then I did "hand rolled components" for all my apps where I dropped bootstrap class names right inside the React components.