vue-select is abandoned. Here's what I built to replace it.

If you've worked with Vue, chances are you came across vue-select . With over 4.6 million weekly downloads, it became the default select component for the Vue ecosystem. It handled filtering, multi-select, tagging, and async search out of the box. For most of Vue 2's lifetime, it just worked. Then Vue 3 arrived, and vue-select didn't follow. The v4 beta landed in November 2022 targeting Vue 3, but it never reached a stable release. Over two years later, the beta is still the latest version. Issues pile up. PRs go unreviewed. Thousands of projects are stuck on a component that's effectively abandoned. I don't say this to criticize the maintainer -- maintaining a popular open source project solo is brutally hard, and vue-select served the community well for years. But the reality is clear: if you're building a new Vue 3 app today, vue-select is not a reliable choice. The pain points If you've tried to use vue-select with Vue 3, you've probably hit these: No stable Vue 3 release. The v4 b