Why does Tailwind not build framework agnostic UI components?
The best thing about Tailwind is everyone can use it.
Wish we could go back to the days of building for the web and not building for React.
Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit
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#42Also look at Flowbite as an alternative tailwind component library
We've had success using Flowbite :-)
We're using it with React and occasionally find the docs lacking (and go looking in the component source for the answers), but otherwise have been happy with it, fwiw :-)
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I’ve gotten into the habit of using “Inspect Source” in my browser when copying and pasting, because it tends to have almost fully-built Alpine transitions embedded. Kind of inconvenient and strange.
I paid for DivMagic extension which lets me select elements on a page and it generates tailwind styled html code. It was quite useful for the first month but will probably cancel soon.
Can probably do that with chatgpt-4v now
Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit
#44May also want to see
A FOSS Tailwind component library
Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit
#45Why does Tailwind not build framework agnostic UI components? The best thing about Tailwind is everyone can use it. Wish we could go back to the days of building for the web and not building for React.
Yes… but that isn’t possible in a meaningful way.
Many other UI frameworks such as kendo have tried this and failed, and gone back to variants for each UI framework.
Really, if you want meaningful integration with a ui library it has to natively support that library.
I mean certainly I would be delighted if they’d figured out a way to do this, but it’s unsurprising they didn’t: it’s just a very very difficult problem to solve, and the only really decent effort at it (web components) has had extremely limited support and enthusiasm from the community, and has some reasonably unsolvable technical limitations.
Someone needs to invent a way of doing that that works before you could reasonably expect people to start building frameworks with it.
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#46This is an unbelievably unfinished UI library. Especially with a price tag. A limited set of components with very little attention to detail. For example, the buttons lack the active state completely. Why would I pay €250 for something I can find easily for free?
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#48Hate that everything needs React these days. I’ll stick to using Tabler and HTMX.
hey look everyone, someone that doesn’t need a job or to collaborate with anyone
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Even though the discord said they refund with no issues I haven't asked for a refund but tailwind ui was not worth the money unless react is being used. Such a massive disappointment there isn't any JS with the "vanilla" components.
Yes. I don’t want a refund. There’s enough value there. I just want them to add the alpine code to the copy paste code.
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Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit
#50Also look at Flowbite as an alternative tailwind component library
You can also check out
Which is basically what Tailwind UI should be.
Works with anything.