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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 leetrout »

atonse wrote: post #5

I bought tailwind UI more than a year ago. The lifetime/unlimited product or whatever it was. It’s generally fine but feels incomplete. Many of the components don’t have any alpine or JS code documented even though the team has clearly built those aspects when building the previews and demos. I’m not sure what the rationale was there but I hope they’ve fixed it here.

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.

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by [deleted] »

perfmode wrote: post #10
erulabs wrote: post #3

As an infrastructure engineer who spends all day in Go and Bash and AWS I gotta say I’m a huge fan of Tailwind. This looks worth buying too. People are blown away by my front end skills, baby I’m just letting Copilot and Tailwind whisper sweet anodyne nothings into my ear. Keep me as far away from design as you can; this helps!

Do you use Tailwind with Go templates?

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Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by 7sidedmarble »

atonse wrote: post #5

I bought tailwind UI more than a year ago. The lifetime/unlimited product or whatever it was. It’s generally fine but feels incomplete. Many of the components don’t have any alpine or JS code documented even though the team has clearly built those aspects when building the previews and demos. I’m not sure what the rationale was there but I hope they’ve fixed it here.

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.

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by dubcanada »

doix wrote: post #20

Slightly off topic, but has anyone read the license[0]? This point feels really odd to me: > Creating an admin panel tool (like Laravel Nova or ActiveAdmin) that is made available either for sale or for free. I mostly get the other restrictions. You can't buy the kit then repackage it and sell it. But why can't you make an admin panel? [0] https://tailwindui.com/license

> In simple terms, use Tailwind UI for anything you like as long as it doesn't compete with Tailwind UI.

That part I guess explains that. Tailwind UI makes admin panel themes and components so that’s a direct competition.

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by jonnycoder »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #12
atonse wrote: post #5

I bought tailwind UI more than a year ago. The lifetime/unlimited product or whatever it was. It’s generally fine but feels incomplete. Many of the components don’t have any alpine or JS code documented even though the team has clearly built those aspects when building the previews and demos. I’m not sure what the rationale was there but I hope they’ve fixed it here.

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.

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Post by ceejayoz »

7sidedmarble wrote: post #23
atonse wrote: post #5

I bought tailwind UI more than a year ago. The lifetime/unlimited product or whatever it was. It’s generally fine but feels incomplete. Many of the components don’t have any alpine or JS code documented even though the team has clearly built those aspects when building the previews and demos. I’m not sure what the rationale was there but I hope they’ve fixed it here.

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.

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by [deleted] »

doix wrote: post #20

Slightly off topic, but has anyone read the license[0]? This point feels really odd to me: > Creating an admin panel tool (like Laravel Nova or ActiveAdmin) that is made available either for sale or for free. I mostly get the other restrictions. You can't buy the kit then repackage it and sell it. But why can't you make an admin panel? [0] https://tailwindui.com/license

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Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by leetrout »

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.

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