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If you're talking about Tailwind UI[1] — I use Tailwind extensively and have basically never looked at Tailwind UI. It's just useful snippets of HTML styled wit
by dcre 5y ago
If you're talking about Tailwind UI[1] — I use Tailwind extensively and have basically never looked at Tailwind UI. It's just useful snippets of HTML styled with Tailwind. It is by no means required to get value out of Tailwind.
I'm not sure what you mean by proprietary culture! Based on the fact that I've pretty much never seen anyone talk about it, I would guess (total guess, no real knowledge) that no more than 1% of Tailwind users have paid for Tailwind UI.
[1] https://tailwindui.com/ https://tailwindui.com/
- Mizza 5y agoThat's what I mean, though. $250 for some styled HTML! I think that's crazy. Compare with Bootstrap, which has basically just as many snippets simply as part of the documentation.
- dcre 5y agoI'm saying you don't need that and almost nobody uses it. There are tons of snippets in the Tailwind documentation. I just scrolled down the side nav and clicked a page at random: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/divide-width#add-borders-between-horizontal-children https://tailwindcss.com/docs/divide-width#add-borders-betwee...
- dcre 5y agoOk, I can see how if you're used to relying on the Bootstrap examples[1] you would experience the lack of such examples as a big hole in the TW docs. I guess I would argue that those examples don't go very far at all in a real-world application. [1] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.1/examples/ https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.1/examples/
- lghh 5y agoI think $250 is perfectly reasonable. If it saves you a few hours, it's already paid for itself.
- randito 5y agoI don't think it's crazy. It's a good business model for them and a way to monetize their work on Tailwind. Spending $250 in order to get a well implemented and well designed HTML and CSS framework for your app sounds like money well spent to me, depending on the circumstance. If you're an expert or pro at CSS, then yes, that's expensive. But if you have a little budget and need to make some quick progress on a new site, it's a great deal. Hiring someone who can recreate these designs and give you exactly what you want is probably going to cost more than $250.
- imilk 5y agoI paid the $250 and it's an incredible time saver for prototyping & making decent looking, fully responsive internal apps for clients. Based on the number of billable hours saved, it's paid for itself many many many times over.
- scubadude 5y agoYou have to do literally everything from scratch with Tailwind though, for example I never realised how much work is involved in a simple avatar dropdown / logout component (hidden full-screen button). Tailwind is much closer to raw CSS than Bootstrap. That's not a criticism, it's just a different value proposition.
- drusepth 5y agoMy favorite thing about Tailwind is all the sites that offer copy-and-paste components, ready to use (since you already have all the CSS, you just copy HTML-and-classes and it looks exactly how you'd expect). Sure, you can pay for TailwindUI, but you can also just browse (free) components from e.g. * https://tailblocks.cc https://tailblocks.cc * https://blocks.wickedtemplates.com https://blocks.wickedtemplates.com * https://tailwindcomponents.com/ https://tailwindcomponents.com/ * https://merakiui.com/ https://merakiui.com/ * https://www.tailwind-kit.com/ https://www.tailwind-kit.com/ * https://www.tailwindtoolbox.com/ https://www.tailwindtoolbox.com/ Most of the sites I put together this year used an amalgamation of components from those sites for basic structure, and then just get customized to the brand and site function. I hate writing raw CSS and I would also hate writing raw Tailwind.
- hbn 5y agoThat's a bit of an odd criticism. I wouldn't expect any library/framework to offer copy-paste-able usage of itself as a feature. Tailwind is just a different way of writing CSS styles. Not a bunch of premade UI templates.