Base UI vs. Radix UI vs. React Spectrum vs. ggplot2 Comparison Chart

​Radix UI is an open source component library optimized for fast development, easy maintenance, and accessibility. It offers two main packages, Radix Primitives and Radix Themes. Radix Primitives is a low-level UI component library focused on accessibility, customization, and developer experience. Components adhere to WAI-ARIA design patterns, are unstyled by default, and provide full keyboard navigation. Radix Themes is a pre-styled component library designed to work out of the box with minimal configuration. It includes layout primitives, typography, and components like buttons and cards, all customizable via the Theme component. Radix Colors offers a comprehensive, accessible color system for designing beautiful, accessible websites and apps. It supports automatic dark mode, transparent variants, and is designed for user interfaces. Radix Icons provides a crisp set of 15×15 icons available as individual React components.

ggplot2 is a system for declaratively creating graphics, based on The Grammar of Graphics. You provide the data, tell ggplot2 how to map variables to aesthetics, what graphical primitives to use, and it takes care of the details. ggplot2 is now over 10 years old and is used by hundreds of thousands of people to make millions of plots. That means, by-and-large, ggplot2 itself changes relatively little. When we do make changes, they will be generally to add new functions or arguments rather than changing the behavior of existing functions, and if we do make changes to existing behavior we will do them for compelling reasons. If you are new to ggplot2 you are better off starting with a systematic introduction, rather than trying to learn from reading individual documentation pages.