New feature: Support radio buttons with StandardFacet. #505
Description
We would like to display StandardFacet using radio buttons.
It would also be useful to be able to deselect / clear the options. This isn't something radio buttons typically allow with the basic HTML elements.
Example
We have range facets that are inclusive, such as rating or time,
3 or more, 4 or more, 5
next day, next week, next month
Current options
With the current StandardFacet, these are all displayed as checkboxes and we can select multiple values. This works, but is not intuitive since options like 3 or more include 4 or more.
For now, we have created our own components that mimic the StandardFacet component using the hooks directly.
However, when using Facets, we cannot order our custom facets between those rendered by the Facets component. So, we display them at the top or bottom next to the Facets component.
Aside about the current Facets component.
From what I gather, the Facets component uses its children as configuration and renders the 3 supported components itself. The order is maintained, but we can only use those 3 supported components. An alternative would be to export the provider and allow the application to place any component inside it that also uses the same hooks, etc. I understand there is a trade-off with the way the Facets component can also discover all the facets and render them itself. It would be nice if it wasn't an all-or-nothing since a lot of the components that already exist get us very far and work well.