[chungwu]

react-aria is about more than just putting the aria-attributes in the right place. It also takes care of interactivity, keyboard accessibility, focus management, and smoothing over some crazy differences between browsers. Sure, it's all code that you can write yourself, but it's complicated and subtle to get right, and it's how we end up with all these half broken components on the web.

Here's a good example of deep thinking and investigative work that goes into react-aria: https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/blog/building-a-combobox.ht...