Re-export the focus management utilities in index.ts

[LoganDark]

I think it's a bit unfair that these very useful utilities are buried under a long import, especially when it requires configuration overrides to use. If someone wants to make a multi-select box, or a tree view, or something else that Headless UI currently doesn't support yet, having the focus management utilities available would be a big help and would make it a bit more difficult to accidentally reinvent the wheel.

Alternatively, you could move this focus management stuff into another package for all to use. It's really useful!

[ragulka]

It looks like the *.esm.js files for these utils have been completely removed from the latest version (1.5.0), so it's no longer possible to even import them using the long path.

I understand these were not public interfaces to begin with. However, the focus management hooks were very useful - for the exact reasons stated by OP. I was using it to get a list of all focusable elements in a container, to build my own custom control/component that needed to manage focus.

In my case, I need to set the initial focus on an element when the component is mounted. It's not exactly a Dialog, so I don't want to trap the focus. Moving the focus will simply allow for better keyboard navigation. I was using the focusIn hook for this, but cannot, anymore. Unfortunately, FocusTrap is quite strict - it cannot be even toggled on/off - even though the useFocusTrap hook has an enabled param, which could be used for this.

[jamesthomsondev]

I can definitely see use (and have had to hack my own) for overriding FocusTrap. My most recent use case is a Dialog (modal) that has a Combobox within it. We've set the Combobox to automatically display the list of options when the input gets focused. Due to the automatic behaviour of FocusTrap this was causing the Combobox input to be focused, causing the list to undesirably display over the content. Had to write a custom focus to override this after the Dialog opened - a simple solution could have been to pass false to initialFocus, but that's unsupported.