compound-components

Build accessible React UI components using a Root/Trigger/Content/Item architecture with shared context, ARIA roles, and keyboard navigation to manage complex interaction patterns without duplicating logic. This approach ensures predictable behavior across libraries.

The compound component pattern is a React architecture using Root, Trigger, Content, and Item parts to share state via context. Use it when building design-system primitives like Select, Dialog, Tabs, Accordion, and Menu to ensure flexible rendering and accessibility.

Add keyboard navigation and focus management to React accordions and menus by implementing Arrow keys, Enter/Space, and Escape handling within a compound component context. This ensures proper focus trapping and screen reader compatibility for interactive UI primitives.

Yes, the compound component pattern works with headless UI libraries like Radix UI. It applies the same Root/Trigger/Content structure, ARIA roles, and data-state attributes to enable flexible rendering and predictable behavior across different library implementations.

Yes, you can use compound components to manage open state, IDs, and ARIA attributes without duplicating logic. A Root component holds unified state and shares it via context, allowing Trigger and Content parts to read and toggle state predictably.

Use compound components instead of single monolithic React components to achieve flexible rendering and predictable behavior. This pattern separates Root, Trigger, and Content parts via context, preventing logic duplication when building accessible dialogs, selects, and menus.