export useRenderProps

[unional]

I want to build a component using the slot mechanism in react-aria-components.

When I tried it out, I notice that hooks like useRenderProps in ./util is not exported.

Is it possible to export those hooks and related code?

[snowystinger]

For slots, it's probably best to use your own context so that you don't ever conflict with our context.
useRenderProps doesn't have anything to do with slots. What are you trying to do there?

It sounds like maybe you're trying to make other RAC API-like components, not building components on top of RAC?

We do want to be a little careful about exporting these, but if you can talk more about your use-case and maybe show some examples, we can take it into consideration. Essentially starting an RFC https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/contribute.html#feature-requests

[unional]

I'm trying to build a data grid implementation as the Table in react-aria-components is built based on <table> and doesn't work for nested table (or row expansion to anything) AFAIK.

So I want to use the slots mechanism to do similar things such as drag and drop, selection, etc.

I'm planning to use different context (e.g. DataGridContext as compare to TableContext) so they won't be any conflict.

I looked at react-aria-components to see how the component handles the props, like inherit from the context using useContextProps, and handle className and style resolution using useRenderProps. That's when I notice useRenderProps and some of the related types such as StyleRenderProps<T> are not exported.

There are more code needs to be exported (e.g. useCollection), but it really depends on how does the team defines the public API.

[snowystinger]

Chatted with the team. We do intend to eventually export most of the Collection work. Hopefully in near future.
We're not sure yet about useRenderProps, however, it's pretty straightforward, you could copy it for now.

[greg-hoarau]

Hi ! Regarding useRenderProps, I also want to use it in my project. For now, I'll go ahead and copy it as you suggested 👍 Thanks