# floating-ui/react-popper

🍿⚛Official React library to use Popper, the positioning library

Repository: https://github.com/floating-ui/react-popper
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-popper
Homepage: https://popper.js.org/react-popper/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: popper, react, placement, popover, tooltip, tooltips
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-05-08T16:39:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3617, "days_push": 847, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2488, forks 228 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:55.680193+00:00)

## What it is
React Popper is the official React wrapper around Popper, a positioning library for tooltips, popovers, and dropdowns. It is now in maintenance mode, with new development focused on the Floating UI React packages.

## Use cases
- position tooltips in react
- build popovers with react
- position dropdown menus relative to a trigger element
- anchor floating ui elements to reference elements
- prevent tooltips from overflowing the viewport

## When to choose
- you have an existing codebase already using Popper.js
- you need a battle-tested React positioning wrapper for legacy Popper

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new project - use Floating UI's official React DOM bindings instead
- you need active development or new features

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: frontend, web-development
- platform: browser
- tags: react, popper, tooltip, popover, positioning, maintenance-mode, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- floating-ui/react-popper (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:55.680193+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 2026-08-30T02:27:52.292744+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/floating-ui/react-popper (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:55.680193+00:00, sha e71ba486dff1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.