Ariakit vs. Base UI vs. JavaScript vs. React Spectrum Comparison Chart

From the creators of Radix, Material UI, and Floating UI, Base UI is an unstyled React component library for building accessible user interfaces. Our focus is on accessibility, performance, and developer experience. Our goal is to provide a complete set of open-source UI components, with a delightful developer experience, in a sustainable way. Features: - Headless: Base UI components are unstyled, don’t bundle CSS, and don’t prescribe a styling solution. - Accessible: Poor accessibility can make your application difficult to navigate for all users, not just for users with disabilities. - Composable: Component APIs are fully open, so you have direct access to each node, you can easily add or remove parts, and you can wrap them however you prefer.

​React Spectrum is a React implementation of Spectrum, Adobe’s design system. It provides components that are adaptive to interactions and screen sizes across devices, and includes full screen reader and keyboard navigation support for accessibility. React Spectrum components are designed to work with mouse, touch, and keyboard interactions. They’re built with responsive design principles to deliver a great experience, no matter the device. React Spectrum includes automatic support for dark and light modes based on operating system settings. React Spectrum components are designed to support over 30 languages, including support for right-to-left languages, date and number formatting, and more. It offers a comprehensive set of components, including buttons, pickers, collections, date and time inputs, color pickers, forms, navigation elements, overlays, status indicators, and content components.