TW-Elements VS shadcn/ui

I'd like to share my latest discovery with you. TW Elements is currently, the most popular 3rd party UI kit for TailwindCSS with over 10k Github stars. It's a huge collection of stunning components made with attention to the smallest detail. Forms, cards, buttons, and hundreds of others. All components have dark mode and very intuitive theming options. The project is supported by an engaged community on GitHub, I recommend you check it out and join one of the many discussions. You will find installation instructions here, and you can track the progress of the project live here. The project was kickstarted by @mdbootstrap, a group of open-source developers behind MDB UI Kit - a high-quality UI kit for Bootstrap, and also behind MDB GO - hosting and deployment platform. I highly recommend you to check it out!

Domain changed to https://tw-elements.com

Even though TE is already a fully functional UI Kit, it's still in its infancy really - we have great plans and a long and exciting road ahead of us. So whatever input (however critical) You might have, please share it with us here or on any of our channels on which we will be more than happy to host you: Discord GitHub X

Tailwind Elements

Quick context of the project: TER is a dedicated React version of Tailwind Elements (TE), a popular collection of components based on Tailwind CSS& Material Minimal design system.

Tailwind Elements is a huge set of more than 500 UI components. These components range from very simple — like headings, images, and icons — to very complex, like charts and complete forms. They can be used for almost any kind of project, especially for complex ones.

Don't use automatic Figma to code generators unless you are aiming for spaghetti code. Instead, try to find a UI Kit that is already compatible with Figma. FLowbite is an option: https://flowbite.com/figma/#pricing And if you want something open source you can check out Tailwind Elements: https://tailwind-elements.com/ They will be releasing their Figma files in a couple of weeks: https://material-minimal.com/

My recommendation would be to learn using design systems and UI Kits that take care of it for you right away. My choice would be MDBootstrap React for Bootstrap, and Tailwind Elements for Tailwind.

Check out the beautiful UI crafted by ShadCN over at the deployed version of our app — sign in with Google and get some sweet cards! Plus, the entire project is open source. Grab the code from GitHub.

It’s Headless so you can use it with whatever UI components you have in your project and as with everything in TanStack it’s type-safe! In this example we'll use components from shadcn/ui to build the form but you can really make it work with any UI library.

Shadcn UI

You can access shadcn/UI using the following links. Official Site Github Repo

I build an Angular or React app or smart component that uses the store in an Nx monorepo. I use the Shadcn UI in React apps, and the Shadcn-based spartan/ui in Angular apps, so I can use almost the same app architecture both in Angular and React.

Finally, for our front end, we’re going to be pairing Next.js with the great combination of TailwindCSS and shadcn/ui so we can focus on building the functionality of the app and let them handle making it look awesome!

Shadcn/ui: I've never tried it before but have always wanted to switch from MaterialUI

Honestly the ergonomics of heavily customizable generic component libraries aren't great. Copy and pasting a simple component to make the specific customizations you want helps reduce JS ecosystem churn and dependency pain. Popularity of libraries like shadcn/ui [1] are good acknowledgements of that.

[1] https://ui.shadcn.com/

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