dnd-kit

dndkit seemed very promising, until I realized the state of development [0], and critical performance issues if you want to use it for larger lists (individual issues linked within [0]). So it's fine if you need to use it for simple scenarios and a smaller number of items, but otherwise, it's inadequate in current state, unfortunately...The fact that the post was in Aug 2023, perf. issues still remain and there's low activity on issues in general, doesn't bode well... [0] - https://github.com/clauderic/dnd-kit/issues/1194

dnd-kit is maintained by someone who works at Shopify, but I'm not sure if it's a direct successor or just similar project: https://github.com/clauderic/dnd-kit

We're actually in between drag and drop libs at the moment. We currently use react-beautiful-dnd [0], but it has some major shortcomings and doesn't feel very well maintained. That being said, it's a pretty impressive lib that probably works for a lot of people as-is. We've got a branch where we've switched to dndkit [1] which I like a lot - really nice API with hooks for everything. However, it has some annoying bugs that mean we can't quite switch yet. That being said it seems like the one that's hanging us up the most is nearly fixed [2]. 0: https://github.com/atlassian/react-beautiful-dnd 1: https://dndkit.com/ 2: https://github.com/clauderic/dnd-kit/pull/140

One of the up and coming React DnD projects is https://github.com/clauderic/dnd-kit. It's still in beta, and the drag/drop animations are rough around the edges, but it appears to be targeting an enterprise-grade set of features, including accessibility support. Its core + plugin model will likely be the closest you can get to bundle size minimization. Until the situation improves, for production, I use react-beautiful-dnd. Long term, I think this might actually be a good problem to be solved in web components (e.g., using something like Stencil), then output targets for React, Svelte, Angular, etc can be generated.