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Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by switz »

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".

I’m using parts of Shadcn on a real product making real money. It’s really just a combination of cva, radix, and tailwind that you can copy into your app and customize/extend.

Shadcn, radix, and tailwind are all FOSS so they are not “high-priced”.

Your analysis is shallow and unfounded.

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by tipiirai »

switz wrote: post #71
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

I’m using parts of Shadcn on a real product making real money. It’s really just a combination of cva, radix, and tailwind that you can copy into your app and customize/extend. Shadcn, radix, and tailwind are all FOSS so they are not “high-priced”. Your analysis is shallow and unfounded.

Shadcn seems more polished and complete than Catalyst, and it's free. Absolutely no reason to pay for Catalyst. btw: is the active state missing from Tailwind since Shadcd buttons are also missing them?

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

#73

Post by hipadev23 »

yieldcrv wrote: post #65
hipadev23 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds like a surefire way to ensure you'll be a cog for your entire career. Focus on delivering results.

how does that work if you wont be hired without prior experience in a particular stack to begin with for current employment I’ve only ever seen teams push for using the next shiny thing solely to get that experience and professional validation in the current role, to be competitive for consideration in the next roles

It's unfortunately accurate that a lot of roles and people in those roles are indeed purely bullet-point driven for their resumes. If you're entering a role at a mid-level or junior, you're likely stuck with their tech stack choices. At senior or higher, it's usually about delivering results and the tech stack is up to you.

I've never paid much attention to specific job requirements, just whether or not I could solve the problems they were looking to solve.

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

#74

Post by ldjkfkdsjnv »

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!

ChatGPT is an expert at tailwind

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by the_only_law »

hipadev23 wrote: post #73
yieldcrv wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how does that work if you wont be hired without prior experience in a particular stack to begin with for current employment I’ve only ever seen teams push for using the next shiny thing solely to get that experience and professional validation in the current role, to be competitive for consideration in the next roles

It's unfortunately accurate that a lot of roles and people in those roles are indeed purely bullet-point driven for their resumes. If you're entering a role at a mid-level or junior, you're likely stuck with their tech stack choices. At senior or higher, it's usually about delivering results and the tech stack is up to you. I've never paid much attention to specific job requirements, just whether or not I could solve…

> If you're entering a role at a mid-level or junior, you're likely stuck with their tech stack choices. At senior or higher, it's usually about delivering results and the tech stack is up to you.

> I've never paid much attention to specific job requirements, just whether or not I could solve the problems they were looking to solve.

So then I assume you’ve always been a senior developer?

Also I think this probably depends on domains/culture/multitude of factors. There are a lot of places where senior is just “cog with a lot of experience” or “cog with a lot of tenure”.

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

#78

Post by bdlowery »

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.

Re: Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

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Post by mock-possum »

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.

Has early access come to js component libraries??
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