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What?

Related to #41466
Related to #41430 (comment)
Related to #43475
Likely superseeds #37272

This PR attempts to refactor the CustomSelectControl component using the Select components from ariakit

Why?

Using ariakit under the hood will allow us to:

  • delegate the accessibility / usability work to the ariakit library
  • work towards a more unified set of components based on the select element
  • explore enhancements to components and APIs that can unlock more polished UIs

See #41466 for more details.

How?

  • Create a new temporary component to start exploring using ariakit
  • Add more components:
    • Group
    • Group label
    • Arrow
    • Separator
    • Check item
    • Row
  • Add storybook examples to cover all new components
  • Update styles to match the required design
  • Refine types, docs, examples
  • Understand which APIs to adopt (options vs passing children) (also see this comment)
  • Add the same unit tests from current CustomSelectControl component
    • work towards having all tests pass again
    • if needed, write a "compat layer" to translate from new version to legacy version
  • Look into new requirements:
    • add onHighlightedIndexChange or similar prop
    • potentially add any new APIs (renderItem prop?)
    • potentially deprecate any old APIs (options prop?)
    • how to make the label visually hidden?
  • Update StoryBook with new low-level and high-level examples:
    • Example: post author dropdown
  • Try to swap current usages of CustomSelectControl from old to new component

Testing Instructions

TBD

Screenshots or screencast

TBD

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// TODO:
// - should we use 'select' instead of `div` for props inheritance?
// - should we allow polymorphism ?
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I wouldn't really expect CustomSelectControlProps to inherit from HTMLSelectElement at all since it's completely custom and doesn't ultimately render a <select>, no? That is, I'd expect props to have type SelectControlProps and not WordPressComponentProps< SelectControlProps, 'select', false >.

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I wouldn't really expect CustomSelectControlProps to inherit from HTMLSelectElement at all since it's completely custom and doesn't ultimately render a <select>, no?

This in an interesting one. On one end, we should aim at CustomSelectControlProps to be semantically a replacement for the select HTML element — on the other end, it's not going to be easy to support all props/functionality of the native select HTML element.

For example, Ariakit doesn't seem to support all of those props either:

https://github.com/ariakit/ariakit/blob/ariakit%402.0.0-next.36/packages/ariakit/src/select/select.tsx#L285

That is, I'd expect props to have type SelectControlProps and not WordPressComponentProps< SelectControlProps, 'select', false >.

By default, components in the package should use the WordPressComponentProps type utility unless there's a good reason for them not to. At most, if we wanted to keep it as general as possible, we could type the props as WordPressComponentProps< SelectControlProps, 'div', false >

@ciampo ciampo force-pushed the feat/components-custom-select-control-refactor-ariakit branch from 1ecba05 to 213d63e Compare June 21, 2022 16:35
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mirka commented Dec 20, 2023

@ciampo Can we consider this superseded by the work done in #55023?

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ciampo commented Dec 20, 2023

Yup!

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