daisyui VS django-tailwind

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/

Most of our installation is done but we haven't configured Tailwind yet. django-tailwind is already installed with the required Python packages but we'll need to compile this to fully setup Tailwind and make it ready to work in our local development environment.

I'm currently using Django + TailwindCSS to build small apps, sometimes relying on JS or even with some other Django app to handle dynamic behavior on the front-end (e.g. django-formset for improving forms). I've been achieving very interesting results with this stack so far.

I like the way that django-tailwind handles it. Still requires npm locally, but puts some nice management command wrappers around it.

There are many ways to set up Tailwind CSS in Django. One way to do so is by using a package called django-tailwind. This package provides an easy way to use Tailwind CSS in a Django project.

Hi, Thanks for taking the time to reply. I've had several issues with trying to integrate it; the key problem I'm having at the moment is running manage.py tailwind commands in my dockerfile. The example dockerfile requires these commands to be run, but for some reason I am constantly getting a manage.py cannot be found error. I have checked my directories, and it seems to be in the right place, but I cannot seem to resolve this error at the moment.

django-tailwind improved my experience with this stack markedly.

Technically, you can use any CSS framework, including Tailwind, for Django. Most of the time, dropping that CDN into your template will be enough (i.e. bootstrap 5 or bulma) to get started.

Are you using the django-tailwind package?