agrippa VS Tailwind CSS

I'm working on a huge new version for Agrippa, which is essentially an open source tool for generating frontend components without the boilerplate (kind of like supercharged snippets, but even greater 🤩). Seeing as Tailwind is already used in many teams today and it's only becoming more and more popular, I thought it could be beneficial to many if Agrippa had first-class support for it - and it's a great opportunity to learn more about a trending tool, too 😄

To get started with Agrippa, read the Getting Started guide or visit us on GitHub. Your thoughts and feedback, as always, are most welcome. If you've found a bug with this release, or want to suggest a new feature, please submit an issue.

For the complete list of options that Agrippa supports, see The Complete List of Generation Options on the wiki. For more info about baseDir, see Using baseDir and dest. Finally, for more info about post-commands, which are one of the main features that make Agrippa as flexible as it is, see The Post Command cookbook 🍲.

That's it! Agrippa has an ever-growing community around it, and I hope you'll join it too! To get started, visit Agrippa on GitHub.

So, thanks everyone! If you're not using Agrippa, join us! Get started here.

I'm asking because we want to implement styled-components support for Agrippa, the React CLI for component generation! In fact, it's the second issue opened on our GitHub repository!

If you're not using Agrippa yet, get started here. If you are using Agrippa, thanks for being part of the community! Let us know what you think about it, here or elsewhere.

NPM, Github, Dev.to.

About a month ago, the first production version of Agrippa was published, and I announced it in my first post on dev.to, Meet Agrippa, the React CLI for component generation. I was honored at the amount of positive feedback for the project (thank you all!!), and had immediately started working on improving the tool further.

You can use any frontend framework you want — react-based tooling, however, has a natural advantage as it models everything as a function of state, which can map 1:1 with the concept in Burr. In the demo app we use react, react-query, and tailwind, but we’ll be skipping over this largely (it is not central to the purpose of the post).

Tailwind CSS: A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs.

First, you need to make sure that you have a working Tailwind CSS project…

Tailwind CSS

With better CSS approaches like TailwindCSS and Vanilla Extract (which we're heavily using) it's much easier to maintain the UI and make sure it doesn't change unexpectedly. No more conflicting CSS classes, much less CSS specificity issues and much less CSS code in general.

This app was built with Svelte Kit, Tailwind CSS, and many other technologies. For a full rundown, please visit the GitHub repository

Unlike Tailwind, which has over 77,000 stars on GitHub, Mojo CSS has about 200 stars on GitHub. But the Mojo CSS documentation is fairly good and you can find most of the information you’ll need there.

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- Performance is a feature.

Another common interpretation of brutalism is aesthetic, reacting to overly complicated user interfaces by creating simpler, more direct ones. Tailwind CSS (https://tailwindcss.com), one of today's most popular CSS libraries, promotes this approach in its component examples. There's also a neat library I've seen recently called "Neobrutalism Components" for React that I like (https://neobrutalism-components.vercel.app), providing components with a similar look and feel to Gumroad. This might more accurately be called 'Neo-Brutalism,' as noted in the comments.

A more engineering-centric interpretation of Brutalism focuses on form, structure, and efficiency, drawing significantly from brutalist architecture principles. Apart from the user interface itself, most mobile, desktop, and web applications are extremely bloated and often perform worse than sites from 10 years ago did. While one HTML file might be "less brutalist" than the original HN site, it is substantially more brutalist than any HN mobile app in existence, and offers nearly identical functionality.

A broader interpretation of brutalism, which could be termed 'Meta-Brutalism,' is embodied in the overall experience on this site through UX flows. Yes, in the strictest sense, the original HN site is more Brutalist in many ways, but it only shows 30 articles at a time and does not function as a PWA. For this site, the experience of reading 10 stories is arguably less brutalist, but for quickly browsing through several pages and skimming articles (which is how I read HN) it is a lot faster, and in my opinion, more Brutalist.

My primary inspiration was addressing software and tool bloat in UIs rather than strictly adhering to every principle set forth by David Bryant Copeland. I don't find it convincing that this site "isn't brutalist" compared to really any other experience apart from the Main HN site, and I would argue the overall experience is more brutalist in its performance and scrolling behavior.

As a side note: I generally don't like Brutalist architecture that much although I believe it is unfairly maligned. I visited the Salk Institute once and enjoyed it though (https://www.archdaily.com/61288/ad-classics-salk-institute-l...).

- Staff Software Engineer ($275k/yr): https://tailwindcss.com/careers/staff-software-engineer

We're small, independent, and profitable, with a team of just 6 people doing millions in revenue, and growing sustainably every year. You'd work directly with the founders on open-source software used by millions of people.

If you like the idea of working on a small team that cares about craft and isn't trying to achieve VC scale, I think this is a pretty awesome place to do your best work.