Radix UI with Chance Strickland

Radix UI is an open source library of React components. Its headless primitives handle the complex logic and accessibility concerns like dialogs, drop downs, and tabs, while leaving styling completely up to the developer. The project emphasizes usability, accessibility, and composability and has become a vital part of modern web dev, in part because it forms the foundation of ShadCN UI. Chase Strickland is a software engineer at WorkOS and a maintainer of Radix UI. Chase joins the show with Nick Niese to talk about Radix, its primitives, Radix' relationship with Shad c n u I, the evolution of web primitives, and much more. Nick Niesse is a conference organizer, speaker, and developer focused on tools across the web ecosystem. He has organized and emceed several conferences and has led Nebraska JS for more than a decade. Nick currently works as a developer experience engineer at Work OS. Hello, and welcome to Software Engineering Daily. I'm your host, Nick Niese. And I'm joined today by Chance Strickland. Chance, how's it going? Good. How are you, Nick? Oh, I'm doing fantastic. I'm ready to talk about radix, radix, however we wanna pronounce it. But it's a very exciting project. But before we do, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself? Yeah. My name is Chance Strickland. I live in San Diego, California. I am a software engineer at WorkOS. And, yeah, working on all of our front end things and still maintaining Radix as well. So that's kind of like my split of the day job. And then outside of that, I have a dog and live with my wife in the North Park, San Diego, like I said, and like to play music. That's a pretty good holistic script, I think. Yeah. What instruments do you play? I got some drums behind me. So yeah. I don't know. Is this gonna be a a visual podcast? Can anyone see this, or is it just audio? If it's just audio, I will make sure I don't make any more visual references. But, yeah, I play drums. I've also got several guitars back here. So, yeah, I dabble in a few things. Awesome. Nice. Cool. Well, why don't you tell us what Radix is or Radix and how you pronounce it? I guess first, we can start by pronunciation because Yeah. I've always said Radix, but I hear people all the time will come up and say, hey, I love Radix UI, and I'm like, that's cool. And I I don't say anything because I don't actually know if I'm right. The project was started by a team of half Americans and half Brits. So, like, between the accent and potential pronunciation differences between the two, I don't know, actually. I just have always said radix. Cool. Yeah. It's kinda got that, vibe there. Exactly. Yeah. You can call it whatever you want. That's totally fine. For sure. It'd be more fun if we said it differently the entire …