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At first it seems nice...I played with it for a few hours in an established project and didn't mind. But the I thought about using it from scratch and I'm just baffled anyone does. It's like if CSS was slightly more abbreviated but you couldn't use classes so every style has to be specified on every component.
instead of using classes you just use whatever your ui library provides for reuse. stick a classname string in a variable and you have a class. use a component and it just contains all its styles.
unless you mean that if you look in the inspector you see a mess of classnames. I don't have a solution there
A lot of ui frameworks are based on tailwind and allow you to customize the components with more tailwind. It's really a win because:
Oh wow, a framework that needs a framework.
Fair enough. What ui framework(s?) on tailwind do you like?
I like daisyUI because it doesn't have any Javascript
Tried it. It was terrible. Reverting.
😁 To each their own I guess
Yup :)
Oooh, that's nice. I might switch to that from bulma, it would reduce the packaged style size
shadcn is the primary one for react at least. they've done a great job filling the space where you're trying to build up a design system but don't want to start from scratch, but they're great if you just want prebuilt components too
all the components build on something else like radix, and are pretty simple themselves. normally just the radix component with styles. Installing a component just copypastes the source into your project at configured locations.
if you've ever fought against something like mui to get it to fit design changes or change specific behavior, shadcn is great. at some point the extension points of a library aren't enough, but if you own all the code that'll never be a problem.
I don't use react, but needed a decently looking frontend complement library that didn't look dated, and found basecoat, which is shadcn but without react to be really neat.
Might be interesting for the htmx crowd here.
You can still use classes if you want to...
Yes but it's also expressly discouraged in the documentation so...