ant-design-vue VS Tailwind CSS

8. Ant Design Vue Ant Design Vue is the Vue.js implementation of Ant Design, a popular UI library for React. It provides high-quality components and a polished UI experience. Visit the Ant Design Vue website for more details.

Ant Design: A solid option that is been used by a lot of heavy hitters, such as Tencent, Baidu, AliBaba, and more. Supports all modern browsers, SSR, esm, and even Electron. Has also community implementations for Angular, Vue, and more. Does use CSS-in-JS, so expect runtime overhead as well as AntD ways of doing things.

In my experience of building and delivering systems for various clients, depending on their requirements or preferences, it’s inevitable that I may use UI frameworks and libraries like Ant Design and Tailwind. Often, I have to build on top of each components. If you are working alone, it’s not such a big problem. But when working as a team, things get complicated quickly. So, I started looking at different methodologies which can provide development flexibility and system maintainability for the projects I’m leading. I choose Atomic Design methodology and want to share why it works for me.

Ant Design Vue UI Framework

Ant

Ant Design for Vue (16k stars on GitHub) Folks have complained that Ant is bloated, inaccessible, and not performant. That said, Ant also has a ridiculously large components set.

5 - Ant Design Vue

It has over 13k stars on Github and on 39,693 weekly downloads on npm.

Lastly, Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework packed with classes like flex, pt-4, text-center, and rotate-90 that can be composed to build any design, directly in your markup.

Tailwind CSS

Sidekiq is already configured along with assets, tailwindsCSS.

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!

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.