truss VS headlong

Compare truss vs headlong and see what are their differences.

truss

A TypeScript DSL for writing utility CSS in React/JSX (by homebound-team)

headlong

Tailwind CSS on the fly without PostCSS (by matyunya)
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truss headlong
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truss

Posts with mentions or reviews of truss. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.
  • StyleX – Meta's Styling Library
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2023
    Nice! We copied StyleX's "type-safe extensions" in Truss [1] so things like `` are allowed (setting margin is fine) while disallowing `` (anything "not margin") that would mess up the components internal impl details with a compile error.

    That said, we don't actually use the feature that much, vs. higher-level logical props like ``.

    I know we're supposed to use build-time CSS-in-JS these days, but afaiu they don't support the rare-but-handy "just spread together ~4-5 different object literals from ~random different conditionals + props", i.e. intermixing styles some inside the component + outside the component, which emotion handles really well.

    Basically this [2]. StyleX says it does "cross-file styles"...but can it support that? I kinda assume not, but I'm not sure.

    [1]: https://github.com/homebound-team/truss#xstyles--xss-extensi...

    [2]: https://github.com/homebound-team/beam/blob/main/src/compone...

  • What working with Tailwind CSS every day for 2 years looks like
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Nov 2022
    Fwiw to the avoid 80%-in-TW / 20%-in-SCSS-or-something-else dichotomy/complexity, we built Truss which brings TW (Tachyons) style abbreviations to the existing "something else" tool chain (Emotion in our case).

    So then everything goes through a single system.

    https://github.com/homebound-team/truss

    > tailwind's and SCSS's VS code integration is pretty amazing

    We get that too, by being just vanilla TypeScript, no editor-specific integration necessary. :-D

    (I've linked to Truss in another response, so will stop now. :-))

  • Why Tailwindcss over styled-components?
    7 projects | /r/reactjs | 23 Nov 2022
  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)
    31 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Nov 2021
  • TailwindCSS JIT with Arbitrary Values
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Apr 2021
    Don't want to take away from Tailwind, it's great.

    That said, self-promotion disclaimer but if you like inline/utility CSS, and also like TypeScript/React/Emotion, we've got a "Tailwinds-ish" CSS-in-JS library that we've enjoyed so far:

    https://github.com/homebound-team/truss

headlong

Posts with mentions or reviews of headlong. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-07.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing truss and headlong you can also consider the following projects:

docker-node-example - An example Node / Express app that's using Docker and Docker Compose.

class-types.macro

headwind - An opinionated Tailwind CSS class sorter built for Visual Studio Code

tailblocks - Ready-to-use Tailwind CSS blocks.

beam - 🪵 Beam Design System

docker-django-example - A production ready example Django app that's using Docker and Docker Compose.

TimescaleDB - An open-source time-series SQL database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries. Packaged as a PostgreSQL extension.

docker-flask-example - A production ready example Flask app that's using Docker and Docker Compose.