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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.
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.
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?
You are welcome to do it for free. The entire point of an UI library is to save time.. you can technically build anything you want for free if you don't value your time. This UI library sped up my dev time at least two-fold. The components and sample landing pages provided are really great IMO (and judging by their sales, it's not just me who agrees).
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…
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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?
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.
Once you've tried to implement one yourself, and looked at how much time and effort it is, you will understand
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.
> Why does Tailwind not build framework agnostic UI components? For the same reasons that PrimeFaces has PrimeNg (Angular), PrimeReact, and PrimeVue. Given the way all the different stuff works together, that's the way it has to be done. I'm still amazed they're asking for $299 for this! Prime is MIT licensed. "Here, clone our repo on GitHub and do whatever you want!". Professional support is paid. It looks good, it…
Because building things costs money
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?
You are welcome to do it for free. The entire point of an UI library is to save time.. you can technically build anything you want for free if you don't value your time. This UI library sped up my dev time at least two-fold. The components and sample landing pages provided are really great IMO (and judging by their sales, it's not just me who agrees).
the comment seems more about how lousy the product it is, and sure I wouldn't want to spend my time making a lousy product, but if in my technical evaluation something sucks then there is generally a good chance that I can build something better.
So the comparison is between using money to buy something bad or using time to build something good and the phrasing would be something like:
You are welcome to use your time to build something that doesn't have all these problems.
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.
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You are welcome to do it for free. The entire point of an UI library is to save time.. you can technically build anything you want for free if you don't value your time. This UI library sped up my dev time at least two-fold. The components and sample landing pages provided are really great IMO (and judging by their sales, it's not just me who agrees).
>You are welcome to do it for free. The entire point of an UI library is to save time.. you can technically build anything you want for free if you don't value your time. the comment seems more about how lousy the product it is, and sure I wouldn't want to spend my time making a lousy product, but if in my technical evaluation something sucks then there is generally a good chance that I can build something better. So…