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Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by sergiomattei »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #59
tipiirai wrote: post #46

This 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?

This is unfortunately the whole space around Tailwind and UI kits. Incomplete kits which look the same and are all priced highly. Just look at Catalyst, Shadcn and Radix UI. I don't know what's new in all of this. These are used by "agencies".

My understanding with Radix UI was that it’s a headless UI library. Looking at it again, it seems that has changed.

Is this recent?

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by ncallaway »

bdlowery wrote: post #78
tipiirai wrote: post #46

This 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?

I would not expect something labeled as “v0.1.0” as supposed to be finished. Weird unproductive comment tbh.

I would expect something labeled as $149 as supposed to be finished.

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by pvsukale3 »

boundlessdreamz wrote: post #52

Haven't checked out Catalyst but I have used TailwindUI. The components are really good but if you are not using a JS framework, it's a lot of work to integrate. The regular JS version of TailwindUI uses Alpine which doesn't have a CSP compatible version so you will have to write the Javascript from scratch. Partially due to these and frustrated by lack of component libraries in Rails, I built and recently released a…

I am a rails dev who bought tailwind ui, and i agree. I have had similar frustrations while integrating. Will give this a shot.

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

#94

Post by nprateem »

leetrout wrote: post #30
memset wrote: post #6

Also look at Flowbite as an alternative tailwind component library

Flowbite looks like what tailwind ui should have been. Designers I have worked with want to use flowbite so their figma comps are accurate and i think tailwind ui not having figma assets is a huge drawback.

Yeah 100%. I've been looking for a UI library with figma templates and the choices are:

1. Flowbite

2. ...er Flowbite

I'm not a designer, I just want to be able to mock up a UI before I implement it. I guess it's not a priority for other companies so I'll buy Flowbite (in spite of the annoying YouTube thumbnails on their site).

Actually preline looks good...

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

#95

Post by b1n »

tipiirai wrote: post #46

This 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?

Complaints about TailwindCSS always remind me of this quote:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-ge...

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

#96

Post by holoduke »

Why would you ever pay for a UI kit on the web. I am not gonna name things, but you dont need to spend a dime on any framework. Most if not all popular ones are opensource. Use those ones. Makes your life much easier. Community arround them also a lot bigger.

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by sb8244 »

holoduke wrote: post #96

Why would you ever pay for a UI kit on the web. I am not gonna name things, but you dont need to spend a dime on any framework. Most if not all popular ones are opensource. Use those ones. Makes your life much easier. Community arround them also a lot bigger.

The design kits that tailwind provides have been so useful compared to everything else. The difference in quality (that I've noticed) is significant when compared to free alternatives.

Tailwind full access is such an easy sell for me. Plus it's pay once, so I don't mind it at all.

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

#99

Post by ryanSrich »

b1n wrote: post #95
tipiirai wrote: post #46

This 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?

Complaints about TailwindCSS always remind me of this quote: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-ge...

Is tailwindui associated with tailwindCSS? If not, then the lack of completeness and quality of this UI kit says nothing about tailwindCSS.
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