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open-props
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Learn CSS Layout the Pedantic Way
There's still some boilerplate, but I'm a big fan of Open Props[0] because it takes a hybrid approach. CSS isn't necessarily reinventing the wheel, but allowing for easier / more powerful approaches to difficult layouts or things that would otherwise require JS. Bootstrap is fine but troubleshooting advanced layout issues involves a lot of inspecting elements to see what styles are actually being applied (at least in my experience, YMMV) so I'd personally always bet on CSS.
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Why Tailwind Isn't for Me
I don't quite get the hate for having CSS in another file. Do you also put all your react stuff in one single file ? That same logic and argument can be applied against all modularization.
And really 20-50 tailwind classes in a single element is VERY hard to read and keep in mind. No - it does not make things clear or understandable. One tends to need to re-read and scan over from the beginning and eyes glaze over. Esp if some elements only vary with a few classes missing. I guess it works for people with very high attention to detail and high amount of working memory. I only find it personally frustrating.
Maybe tailwind css works for some bright people. I did try it for a couple of projects and only felt pain.
However, the "atomic css" philosophy behind tailwind is great. I find framewroks like https://open-props.style/ far better to use.
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Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match
Considering that low-level atomic CSS lib like https://open-props.style are now up-ticking in popularity, it is too early to say that Tailwind CSS "won".
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Styling React 2023 edition
Open Props adds to the set by providing extra custom properties for things like easing functions or animations.
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The Future of CSS: Easy Light-Dark Mode Color Switching with Light-Dark()
> If you wanted to actually solve theming, what you should work for is not a constrained helper function like light-dark(), but instead a shared token schema. Today nearly every company has their own token schema and different ways of naming things in the semantic token layer. If we had a shard language here, not only would it be trivial to add light/dark theming (just redefine a few variables that are already provided for you), code could be shared between sites and inherit the theming/branding.
Isn't that the idea behind https://open-props.style/ (and https://theme-ui.com/ in JS land)?
I think it's a great idea, but hampered by the lack of adoption incentives for the very people that need to adopt it for it to become successful (design system/component library authors). It introduces constraints, but the promised interoperability is not really beneficial to the people who need to work within those constraints.
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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].
You might be interested in OpenProps then: https://open-props.style
Basically its tailwind without all the classes, and without apply, in pure CSS variables
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Released tw-variables: 400 useful Tailwind utilities as ready-to-import CSS variables
Some time ago I discovered Open Props which provides a lot of design tokens as CSS variables and started using it in some of my projects.
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[Showcase] Searching for Friendly-User for Scrum-Tool Miyagi
CSS: Open Props (https://open-props.style/)
dropin-minimal-css
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I hate CSS: how can I build UIs?
Agreed, find a class-less framework to start, so that you focus on just the HTML, semantic structure first. Here's a couple of lists of such frameworks:
https://github.com/troxler/awesome-css-frameworks#class-less
https://github.com/dohliam/dropin-minimal-css
Personally, I like simple.css (https://github.com/kevquirk/simple.css)
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Why everybody speaks only about Tailwind, what happened to Boo0strap?
I think picocss is the best classless CSS framework, but there a bunch of others:
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Show HN: Lissom.CSS, a classless, minimalist, and themeable CSS library
Nice work! I like that you have included support for prefers-color-scheme, which is one of the more highly-requested features for these kinds of frameworks.
I've added Lissom to the big list of minimal CSS frameworks [0] which aims to collect all of these types of projects (more or less) in one place for ease of discoverability and comparison. You can preview the CSS on some HTML5 boilerplate here [1].
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What is your go-to site for pure HTML templates?
Here is the list of CSS that work out of the box either with pure HTML, or with minimal amount of classes. Many can be tried in a matter of seconds via unpkg.
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MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements
Makes it just so easy to switch and select. Embed in your html page, select an item from the drop down and see what it does to the page, when you’re happy, remove ! Simple. Genius. Wonder why I never thought of it.
Also has a demo page [2] to try it out
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Pico CSS Framework
This is great! I've added it to this big list[0] of classless/minimal CSS frameworks (100+ frameworks) to make it easier to compare to other similar projects.
For those interested in Pico (which is already on the list), you can preview it on some boilerplate HTML here[1] or use the Javascript bookmarklet[2] to preview how it would look on any arbitrary page, which can be helpful for prototyping a new site.
What are some alternatives?
carbon-components-svelte - Svelte implementation of the Carbon Design System
svelte-headlessui - Unofficial Svelte port of the Headless UI component library
pollen - The CSS variables build system
modern-normalize - 🐒 Normalize browsers' default style
pico - Minimal CSS Framework for semantic HTML
Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
vanilla-extract - Zero-runtime Stylesheets-in-TypeScript
unocss - The instant on-demand atomic CSS engine.
tabler - Tabler is free and open-source HTML Dashboard UI Kit built on Bootstrap
Tufte CSS - Style your webpage like Edward Tufte’s handouts.
pollen - book-publishing system [mirror of main repo at https://git.matthewbutterick.com/mbutterick/pollen]