diff --git a/REQUIRE b/REQUIRE
index 913b0ec..4d0318d 100644
--- a/REQUIRE
+++ b/REQUIRE
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 julia 0.7
 JSON 0.7
-InteractBase 0.8.1
+InteractBase 0.8.3
 InteractBulma 0.4.0
 WebIO 0.3.1
 CSSUtil
 Knockout
 DataStructures 0.2.10
-Widgets 0.4.1
+Widgets 0.5.0
 Reexport 0.1.0
 Observables 0.2.2
diff --git a/docs/src/custom_widgets.md b/docs/src/custom_widgets.md
index 3685023..ade7169 100644
--- a/docs/src/custom_widgets.md
+++ b/docs/src/custom_widgets.md
@@ -41,8 +41,21 @@ Interact.@layout
 
 ## Defining custom widgets without depending on Interact
 
-```@docs
-Widgets.@nodeps
+This is only relevant for package authors: it is not necessary to depend on Interact to define custom widgets. One can instead use the low-dependency package [Widgets](https://github.com/piever/Widgets.jl) that defines (but does not export) all the widgets. For example:
+
+```julia
+# in the package MyPackage defining the recipe:
+using Widgets
+function myrecipe(i)
+    label = "My recipe"
+    wdg = Widgets.dropdown(i)
+    Widget(["label" => label, "dropdown" => wdg])
+end
+
+# The user would then do:
+using MyPackage, Interact
+
+myrecipe(["a", "b", "c"])
 ```
 
 ## A simpler approach: the manipulate macro