🚀 Feature Request: Export Context Hooks from Radix Primitives (like useDialogContext, useCheckboxContext, etc.)

[programming-with-ia]

🚀 Feature Request: Export Context Hooks from Radix Primitives (like useDialogContext, useCheckboxContext, etc.)

👋 Why This Matters

Radix is awesome for accessible UI primitives, but there’s one thing that makes building real-world UIs harder than it should be:

❗We can’t access the internal state/context of Radix components (like Dialog, Checkbox, Toggle, etc.) from outside their subtree.

This limitation makes certain very common use-cases awkward or nearly impossible without hacks.

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🔥 Real Developer Pain Points

• Dialog: Want to show a floating icon or trigger something globally when a dialog opens/closes? Can’t do it easily.
• Checkbox/Toggle: Need to show a custom icon/text based on checked state in a different part of the UI? Not possible cleanly.
• Reusability suffers: Have to duplicate logic or re-render parent components just to get internal state.

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💡 What We Need

Please consider exporting internal context hooks like:

• useDialogContext()
• useCheckboxContext()
• useSwitchContext()
• etc.

These hooks are already being used internally. Just export them!
It would allow developers to:

• ✅ Access context in external or reusable components.
• ✅ Avoid unnecessary re-renders in the parent.
• ✅ Build cleaner, more modular UIs.

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🧩 Real-World Use Case Example

// ✅ Good: Separate reusable component
const DialogStatusIcon = () => {
  const { open } = useDialogContext();
  return open ? <OpenIcon /> : <ClosedIcon />;
};

Currently, this pattern is impossible. You’re forced to either:

• Pull state up and mirror it manually (not ideal),
• Or render everything in one component (hurts readability and reuse).

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🏁 Conclusion

This is a small change that would make a huge difference to Radix's flexibility.

Please consider this — it’s a highly practical and high-impact improvement for many use-cases.
Happy to open a PR or help if needed!

[xxxijustwei]

I have the same requirement, and I have already submitted PR：
#3558

[programming-with-ia]

nice, i think it's not a easy task for some primitives