sable.

A small, deliberate UI library. The page below is built using exactly its eight components — each labelled. The story and the demo are the same artefact.

<Button /> primary · ghost · disabled

npm install @vkfolio/sable — 9 kB gzipped, no dependencies.

<Input /> + <FormField /> — label, input, hint in one motion. Built the morning after I noticed I had written it inline in three projects.

what brought you here? stored on your machine — no server, no analytics.

<Select /> native <select> under the hood — no custom combobox JS.

<Stack /> layout primitive — direction, gap, no other props.

The eight, in order of frequency.

Stack is the most-used primitive. Everything else is composed inside one.

<Card /> border + padding + radius. That is the entire prop surface.

What's deliberately not in Sable.

No Accordion (never shipped one I was proud of). No Toast (only honest toast is the one your app already renders). No DataGrid (a DataGrid is a product, not a primitive).

<Dialog /> focus trap · escape closes · backdrop click closes · returns focus on close.

Compose — do not specialise.

Every contributor has a Modal-with-confirmation pattern they want as first-class. Every contributor's pattern is slightly different. The right answer is almost always: here is Dialog. Compose.

<Tabs /> aria-tabs · arrow keys to traverse · roving tabindex.

npm install @vkfolio/sable · zero deps · ESM + CJS.

Imports tree-shake to about 2.5 kB if you only use Button + Input + Stack.

<Table /> semantic HTML table. No sort, no resize, no infinite scroll. Bring your own behaviour.

component	size	why it earned its spot
Button	0.6 kB	three projects, always.
Input + FormField	1.2 kB	phantom limb from earlier libraries.
Select	0.4 kB	native is fine. Don't rebuild it.
Stack	0.3 kB	the layout primitive.
Card	0.3 kB	container for the rest.
Dialog	1.8 kB	the focus-trap is the value.
Tabs	1.5 kB	built once accessibly; never want to do it again.
Table	0.3 kB	style of a thing that already exists.

Sable — a small, deliberate UI library · MIT · 9 kB gzipped. Field note: why I built Sable →.

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