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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 tipiirai »

andruby wrote: post #126

What's with all the negativity here on HN, especially about the pricing? The Tailwind team created one of the most used CSS frameworks ever and charge nothing for it. The framework needs a revenue stream to enable continued investment. Rails has basecamp. Bootstrap had twitter. React has meta. Tailwind has Tailwind UI. I find it great value. It's a one-off cost comparable to hiring a designer or front-end developer f…

I think it's the surprisingly poor quality of Catalyst compared to their other products and also how limited it is considering the price.

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by whazor »

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?

The key differentiator as I understand it, is that they provide simple code for kick-starting your own React component library. You receive a Figma design, and you tweak the components.

But yeah, it is clearly not yet finished, the dark mode has a too low color ratio. Good thing is that this UI library comes bundled with the previously existing Tailwind UI.

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by Kiro »

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…

> which doesn't have a CSP compatible version

What do you mean?

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by [deleted] »

tipiirai wrote: post #131
andruby wrote: post #126

What's with all the negativity here on HN, especially about the pricing? The Tailwind team created one of the most used CSS frameworks ever and charge nothing for it. The framework needs a revenue stream to enable continued investment. Rails has basecamp. Bootstrap had twitter. React has meta. Tailwind has Tailwind UI. I find it great value. It's a one-off cost comparable to hiring a designer or front-end developer f…

I think it's the surprisingly poor quality of Catalyst compared to their other products and also how limited it is considering the price.

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Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by sarathyweb »

andruby wrote: post #126

What's with all the negativity here on HN, especially about the pricing? The Tailwind team created one of the most used CSS frameworks ever and charge nothing for it. The framework needs a revenue stream to enable continued investment. Rails has basecamp. Bootstrap had twitter. React has meta. Tailwind has Tailwind UI. I find it great value. It's a one-off cost comparable to hiring a designer or front-end developer f…

The developers are very generous too. 4 years back when I was in college I reached out to them and asked for a student discount. They gave me free access to Tailwind UI ( under a restricted license).

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by mokkol »

tipiirai wrote: post #131
andruby wrote: post #126

What's with all the negativity here on HN, especially about the pricing? The Tailwind team created one of the most used CSS frameworks ever and charge nothing for it. The framework needs a revenue stream to enable continued investment. Rails has basecamp. Bootstrap had twitter. React has meta. Tailwind has Tailwind UI. I find it great value. It's a one-off cost comparable to hiring a designer or front-end developer f…

I think it's the surprisingly poor quality of Catalyst compared to their other products and also how limited it is considering the price.

This is an extra thing on top of everything they made. I praise them for not adding any extra costs. It is never enough for some people. They have a one off price for so much stuff. Absolutely no brainer for a lot of people.

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by dawnerd »

wouldbecouldbe wrote: post #128
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've paid the 250, you don't just get these, but also lots of others: landing, components, docs sites etc. In 10 years time I've used a decent share of templates, but these I've enjoyed most by far and gotten the best user reactions from.

Exactly. It’s very inexpensive considering what a lot of us make and how much time it can save when prototyping. It’s paid for itself multiple times over for me.

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by dawnerd »

ceejayoz wrote: post #27
7sidedmarble wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cause that's not what it's for? It's like the opposite of headless components. It's all head and no component. That's what you're buying. I think that's pretty clear cause that is what Tailwind is . It's CSS, not a component library. That's what this thing is.

Tailwind UI includes JS for many components. https://tailwindui.com/documentation#vue-installing-dependen... > If you'd rather write any necessary JS yourself or want to integrate with a framework other than React or Vue, we also provide every Tailwind UI component example as vanilla HTML that you can adapt yourself.

The js they use is mainly just showing how to hook headlessui up. Tailwind ui was never about buying fully fleshed ready to go react/etc components. They were building blocks you adapt. Guess a lot of people missed that and assume it’s copy paste. Catalyst will become that hopefully.
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