Ariakit is the successor of Reakit, an open source library that provides lower-level React components and hooks for building accessible web apps, design systems, and other component libraries.
Reakit stands for React Toolkit. Ariakit stands for Aria Toolkit, which is better aligned with our goals.
Over the past years, we've been focusing more and more on the ARIA aspects of the library. In the future, we'd like to provide more framework-agnostic utilities.