RADXUI is an open source library of React components.

Its headless primitives handle the complex logic and accessibility concerns like dialogues, 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 Shad-C-N-U-I. Chase Strickland is a software engineer at WorkOS and a maintainer of

Radix UI. Chase joins the show with Nick Neasy to talk about Radix, its primitives,

Radix relationship with Shad-C-Nad CNUI, the evolution of web primitives,

and much more. Nick Nisi is a conference organizer, speaker, and developer focused on tools

across the web ecosystem. He has organized and emceived several conferences and has led Nebraska

JS for more than a decade.

Nick currently works as a developer experience engineer at WorkOS.

Hello and welcome to Software Engineering Daily. I'm your host, Nick Nisi, and I'm joined today by Chance Strickland. Chance, how's it going?

Good. How are you, Nick? I'm doing fantastic. I'm ready to talk about radix, radix, however we want to 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's Chan 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

North Park, San Diego, like I said. And I like to play music. That's a pretty good holistic

scriptor, I think. Yeah. What instruments do you play? I got some drums behind me.

So, yeah, I don't know.

Is this going to be a visual podcast? Can anyone see this? Or is it just audio? 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 I've always said radix, but I hear people all the time will come up and say, hey, I love Radic QI and I'm like, that's cool. And 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 kind of got that a vita vibe there. Yeah, you can call it whatever you want. That's totally fun. It'd be more fun if we said it differently the entire time. I will probably do that,

but without even trying. You keep telling me, and then it immediately just goes through my head.

But that's totally fun. Yeah. It's a really cool project. Do you want to describe what it is?

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