# jameskerr/react-arborist

The complete tree view component for React

Repository: https://github.com/jameskerr/react-arborist
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-arborist
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: arborist, react, tree, treeview, treeview-component
Last push: 2026-07-25T19:11:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 96/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 94, release rhythm 95, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1826, "days_push": 39, "days_rel": 39, "gap_med": 1.5, "n_releases_24m": 25}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3693, forks 185 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:14.797985+00:00)

## What it is
React Arborist is a React component library providing a full-featured, virtualized tree view with drag-and-drop, inline renaming, keyboard navigation, and filtering. It is designed to build UIs like VSCode sidebars, file explorers, or Figma layers panels.

## Use cases
- render a virtualized file explorer tree in react
- build a gmail-style sidebar with collapsible folders
- add drag and drop reordering to a hierarchical list
- create a figma-like layers panel
- implement multi-select tree with keyboard navigation
- filter and search a large tree of nodes

## When to choose
- you need a performant tree view for thousands of nodes in React
- you want built-in drag-and-drop, renaming, and selection out of the box
- you need controlled or uncontrolled tree state with custom node rendering

## When to avoid
- your project is not React-based
- you only need a simple static list without hierarchy
- you need a headless tree with no bundled behavior

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: frontend, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: react, treeview, virtualized-list, drag-and-drop, typescript, web-server

## Member repositories
- jameskerr/react-arborist (main) score 96

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:14.797985+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:31:06.246490+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jameskerr/react-arborist (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:14.797985+00:00, sha 9848df35d709)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/react-arborist (fetched 2026-08-29T09:25:03.428570+00:00, sha c86bc51d8945)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.