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Tailwind Plus is a paid collection of UI components and templates. TailwindCSS itself is meant to be nothing more than a styling tool, like Bootstrap...

bikeshaving 1y ago
The title of the blog post mentions Tailwind Plus so I’m assuming it’s a paid feature. The ambiguity is probably intentional.
- Alupis 1y ago
  It's not very expensive, all things considered. $299 for a single-user perpetual license (includes all future updates too) or about $1k for a team license[1]. If it saves you a bunch of time writing and maintaining the sort of components they are showing off, probably worth it? [1] https://tailwindcss.com/plus#pricing https://tailwindcss.com/plus#pricing
  - bikeshaving 1y ago
    Listen, I’m not against the Tailwind team getting their bag – they worked hard and created an amazing open source library. I just don’t think it’s in the interest of either users or maintainers to put vanilla JavaScript support behind a paywall. Edit: apparently all framework integrations and the whole library and functionality is behind the same paywall? And regular tailwind is just the css classes/build process that I used to know? Do people not understand how casual readers might be confused about all this?
    - monkey_monkey 1y ago
      The entire component library is behind a paywall...are you saying they should be giving away the vanilla JS version?
    - yieldcrv 1y ago
      You can use vanilla tailwind with vanilla JavaScript
    - deleted 1y ago
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  - whatever1 1y ago
    ChatGPT can just steal it for me!
  - cschmatzler 1y ago
    Yeah I strongly emphasise with them getting their money - the only problem with headless components being behind a paid license is that you cannot build a design system on top of them and open source it.
conradfr 1y ago
Bootstrap has javascript components.
- dzonga 1y ago
  different business models. bootstrap was made by twitter which was making money in it's way. while tailwind their monetary model is selling components. for me the only thing I wish bootstrap had was the money color options tailwind has e.g bg-indigo-400 etc

bikeshaving 1y ago

The title of the blog post mentions Tailwind Plus so I’m assuming it’s a paid feature. The ambiguity is probably intentional.

Alupis 1y ago
It's not very expensive, all things considered. $299 for a single-user perpetual license (includes all future updates too) or about $1k for a team license[1]. If it saves you a bunch of time writing and maintaining the sort of components they are showing off, probably worth it? [1] https://tailwindcss.com/plus#pricing https://tailwindcss.com/plus#pricing
- bikeshaving 1y ago
  Listen, I’m not against the Tailwind team getting their bag – they worked hard and created an amazing open source library. I just don’t think it’s in the interest of either users or maintainers to put vanilla JavaScript support behind a paywall. Edit: apparently all framework integrations and the whole library and functionality is behind the same paywall? And regular tailwind is just the css classes/build process that I used to know? Do people not understand how casual readers might be confused about all this?
  - monkey_monkey 1y ago
    The entire component library is behind a paywall...are you saying they should be giving away the vanilla JS version?
  - yieldcrv 1y ago
    You can use vanilla tailwind with vanilla JavaScript
  - deleted 1y ago
    [deleted]
- whatever1 1y ago
  ChatGPT can just steal it for me!
- cschmatzler 1y ago
  Yeah I strongly emphasise with them getting their money - the only problem with headless components being behind a paid license is that you cannot build a design system on top of them and open source it.

conradfr 1y ago

Bootstrap has javascript components.

dzonga 1y ago
different business models. bootstrap was made by twitter which was making money in it's way. while tailwind their monetary model is selling components. for me the only thing I wish bootstrap had was the money color options tailwind has e.g bg-indigo-400 etc