pollen
Tailwind CSS
pollen | Tailwind CSS | |
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19 | 1,281 | |
856 | 78,568 | |
0.5% | 1.2% | |
0.0 | 9.4 | |
5 months ago | 3 days ago | |
TypeScript | TypeScript | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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pollen
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Why does everyone love tailwind
So frameworks like https://www.pollen.style/ are doing this. Personally I still prefer the tailwind approach.
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Tailwind CSS and the death of web craftsmanship
I do think that the real value of Tailwind comes from the utility classes, rather than css-in-html paradigm. You could achieve the same, for example, with Pollen.css [0] or Open Props [1].
[0] https://github.com/heybokeh/pollen
[1] https://github.com/argyleink/open-props
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Is vanilla CSS enough?
Tailwind is a great option to look into, I really enjoy it, but if you want something a bit more in-between, you can check out frameworks like https://www.pollen.style. There you get a framework of consistent CSS variables you can use, while still writing all your vanilla CSS yourself with full control of everything.
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What UI framework would you recommend?
It uses UnoCSS (think TailwindCSS but super customizeable) with Pollen (which is similar to open props).
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Open Props: Tailwind Alternative from Chrome Dev Team
Very similar to Pollen (https://www.pollen.style), though it looks a little more complicated.
IMO the main value of Tailwind is that it's a step function over your units and colors, which helps bring better consistency and dev speed to UI implementation.
Tailwind's "write class names instead of CSS" approach makes sense in the component-based systems most apps are built in these days, where pretty much any repeated markup will be turned into a component. It performs better than scoped styles and is less complicated.
A CSS variable approach like Open Props or Pollen is, in my experience, better if you're not using a component-based system (ie. conventional HTML) and therefore have repeated markup patterns. Having a simple class name to apply to repeated markup is much more maintainable than trying to copy/paste a long tailwind string around.
- Pollen, the CSS variable build system
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What are cool kids using for styling these days?
Pollen and Open Props are two popular examples of such token first frameworks. If you are not familiar with CSS Custom Properties (also called CSS variables), I recently wrote about how to use them to create a CSS Style API layer.
- Ask HN: Looking for an open CSS variables theme that was published here
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Pollen vs. Tailwind CSS: Finding the better build experience
In the last few years, a new set of frameworks with a radically different concept drew the attention of frontend developers. These frameworks are now extremely popular in the frontend world, and you’re likely already familiar with them: Tailwind CSS and Pollen.
- Tailwind CSS v3.0
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How to Build Your Own ChatGPT Clone Using React & AWS Bedrock
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!
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Building an Email Assistant Application with Burr
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).
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Shared Data-Layer Setup For Micro Frontend Application with Nx Workspace
Tailwind CSS: A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs.
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Preline UI + Gowebly CLI = ❤️
First, you need to make sure that you have a working Tailwind CSS project…
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Customer service pages for e-commerce built with Tailwind CSS
Tailwind CSS
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The best testing strategies for frontends
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.
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ChatCrafters - Chat with AI powered personas
This app was built with Svelte Kit, Tailwind CSS, and many other technologies. For a full rundown, please visit the GitHub repository
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Mojo CSS vs. Tailwind: Choosing the best CSS framework
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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Collab Lab #66 Recap
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Show HN: Brutalisthackernews.com – A HN reader inspired by brutalist web design
- 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...).
What are some alternatives?
tailwindcss - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development. [Moved to: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss]
flowbite - Open-source UI component library and front-end development framework based on Tailwind CSS
open-props - CSS custom properties to help accelerate adaptive and consistent design.
antd - An enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library
unocss - The instant on-demand atomic CSS engine.
halfmoon - Halfmoon is a highly customizable, drop-in Bootstrap replacement. It comes with three built-in core themes, with dark mode support for all themes and components.
windicss - Next generation utility-first CSS framework.
daisyui - 🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼 The most popular, free and open-source Tailwind CSS component library
emotion - 👩🎤 CSS-in-JS library designed for high performance style composition
nord - An arctic, north-bluish color palette.
Material UI - Ready-to-use foundational React components, free forever. It includes Material UI, which implements Google's Material Design.