FrontendEmergingAround since 2020
Headless Component Libraries
Also written as Radix UI, shadcn/ui, Headless UI
Component libraries that provide behaviour and accessibility but no styling, so teams get correct dropdowns and dialogs without inheriting someone else's design.
Think of it like
Buying the mechanism for a window and fitting your own frame, instead of taking the whole unit in someone else's colour.
Junior or senior?
Signals a team building a custom design system rather than adopting one.
Senior sounds like
Mentions accessibility as the reason, which is the strongest argument for them.
Ask them
“Why headless components rather than a full library like Material UI?”