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Confirmed, they removed alpine from their copy/pastable code. Now you see:
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@tailwindplus/elements@1" type="module"> -->
This sucks because I have been using alpine and now I can't copy paste the examples ~_~
Looks like it's done using standards-based web components[0]. The page says these components don't require any existing JavaScript framework; because web component support is built-in to the browser. Nice to see devs picking up web components. [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_compone...
We use web components at the hook for my company's advertising code but I've found them pretty thoroughly disappointing, personally. They make it simple to trigger code execution but their API isn't really that good
Web components are not analogous to frameworks because frameworks tightly couple the component interface and lifecycle hooks with the component implementations. Those are properly decoupled in web components and you bring whatever rendering layer you prefer.
I wouldn’t get too excited about it to be honest. At one time they were also supporting Vue but it is now basically abandoned.
With so many frameworks out there it's infeasible to build custom wrappers for them all. With web components they can build once, and work everywhere. It's only up to the frameworks to make sure they have great web components support (which just means great HTML support).
The world would be a significantly better place if someone could throw a small mountain of money at the Tailwind folks so that they can stop worrying about money and simply make the full tailwind experience freely available. There are so many lost opportunities for deep integration with other projects. Kind of like how Jeff Bezos threw a bunch of money at 37signals at some insane valuation, which helped them complete…
I wouldn’t get too excited about it to be honest. At one time they were also supporting Vue but it is now basically abandoned.
Web components are a mess but this is a great application of them: shipping reusable components that work in all frameworks. It's the one and only killer application of web components.
Frankly I'm surprised they're marketing this as "for vanilla javascript" and not as a "now supports all frameworks" type positioning.
I wouldn’t get too excited about it to be honest. At one time they were also supporting Vue but it is now basically abandoned.
Vue has great web component support. Even React 19 (finally!) does. Web components are a mess but this is a great application of them: shipping reusable components that work in all frameworks. It's the one and only killer application of web components. Frankly I'm surprised they're marketing this as "for vanilla javascript" and not as a "now supports all frameworks" type positioning.
Looks like it's done using standards-based web components[0]. The page says these components don't require any existing JavaScript framework; because web component support is built-in to the browser. Nice to see devs picking up web components. [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_compone...
The world would be a significantly better place if someone could throw a small mountain of money at the Tailwind folks so that they can stop worrying about money and simply make the full tailwind experience freely available. There are so many lost opportunities for deep integration with other projects. Kind of like how Jeff Bezos threw a bunch of money at 37signals at some insane valuation, which helped them complete…
Worried about money? They are already rich beyond their wildest dreams. They are, reasonably, excited about growing and expanding and building a company that does much more, but that is not driven by a need for money, it is driven by their ambition. edit: I can’t speak for Adam etc., this is just my impression. My impression is that they want to build a business of which tailwind (the open source project) is one part…
No idea if he still does ok from it, but he certainly did at one stage.