beercss VS daisyui

We aim to create the following app: a left drawer displaying links to different pages, and when a click happens on a link, the right section prints the corresponding page. The style is powered with the Material Design CSS BeerCSS:

These articles form a series focusing on RiotJS paired with BeerCSS, designed to guide you through creating components and mastering best practices for building production-ready applications. I assume you have a foundational understanding of Riot; however, feel free to refer to the documentation if needed: https://riot.js.org/documentation/

This article covers how to create an Riot input component, using the Material Design CSS BeerCSS. Before starting, make sure you have a base application running, or read my previous article Setup Riot + BeerCSS + Vite.

Building Material Design application with RiotJS is pretty easy with BeerCSS, before starting, make sure you have created a Riot project running with Vite: https://dev.to/steeve/riotjs-vitejs-tutorial-fpn

👉 https://www.beercss.com

This is a very current point. Instead of having components for everything, why not directly use semantic HTML? You can have dialogs, buttons, cards among others, writing clean and unified HTML throughout the system. As semantic HTML is part of the web platform, it is independent of any framework/ecosystem, so you open up the range of options to use anything on your system. It's a blank page, ready to be colored however you want. I recommend a class-light approach as done at https://www.beercss.com. There are others too, just google it.

Join the community: https://github.com/beercss/beercss

DaisyUI offers zero-JS components

https://daisyui.com/

I used it for a small form + search result list recently and it works well enough for simple / static stuff.

But I think I'll still be reaching for a JS lib first since I'd miss things like inputs-with-autocomplete too much.

Tailwind is great, but creating everything from scratch is annoying. A nice base of components which can be extended with tailwind would be great. There are a few tailwind frameworks like Flowbite, Daisy Ui, but I like Bulma, PicoCSS and Bootstrap.

While I have experience with Tailwind and frontend development, I don’t really have the patience to use it. I usually end up using something like Mantine, which is a complete component library UI kit, or Daisy UI, which is a component library built on top of Tailwind. Shadcn/ui is quite similar to Daisy in this sense, but being able to customize the individual components, since they get installed to your components folder, made development more streamlined and more customizable. On top of that being able to change my components style with natural language thanks to v0 made development super easy and fast. Shadcn may be too minimalist of a style for some, but thanks to all the components being local, you can customize them quickly and easily!

https://daisyui.com is a really great middle ground—you can move as fast as you would in Bulma, then drop down into the weeds with TW if you need it.

If you're looking for grab and go components, Daisy UI or Flowbite might be more your speed, I've used both with minimal headache.

https://daisyui.com/

This guide is tailored for front-end developers looking to explore the smooth integration of DaisyUI's stylish components, Alpine.js's minimalist reactive framework, and the straightforward back-end capabilities of Codehooks.io.

Others:

  - https://daisyui.com/