

Downshift: The Answer to Building Accessible and Visually Flexible React Input Components
You need some dropdown boxes for your next React project. What do you do? Do you build your own from scratch or do you leverage a UI component framework? In the realm of React UI Component Frameworks, there are lots of popular options: React-Bootstrap, Material-UI, the open source project Blueprint, and Semantic UI React. These frameworks are great in that the learning curve is low and the time to get a dropdown box into your site is quick. But what if you need the dropdown box to match your brand, display customized error messages, or with selection items inside a speech bubble coming out of a penguin?
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