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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.
[0] https://open-props.style/
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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.
- Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match
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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].
[0] https://github.com/heybokeh/pollen
[1] https://github.com/argyleink/open-props
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What is the best styling strategy for a Svelte project?
If you choose to style with plain CSS you can add design tokens as CSS variables with Open Props: https://open-props.style.
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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/)
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What UI framework would you recommend?
https://open-props.style/ gives you design tokens as CSS variables. It’s CSS only and not Svelte specific.
Tailwind CSS
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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
JavaScript React Flowbite Tailwind Firebase - Auth, Database, and Hosting Vite
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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...).
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)
- Staff Software Engineer ($275k/yr): https://tailwindcss.com/careers/staff-software-engineer
We're small, independent, and profitable, with a team of just 6 people doing millions in revenue, and growing sustainably every year. You'd work directly with the founders on open-source software used by millions of people.
If you like the idea of working on a small team that cares about craft and isn't trying to achieve VC scale, I think this is a pretty awesome place to do your best work.
What are some alternatives?
carbon-components-svelte - Svelte implementation of the Carbon Design System
flowbite - Open-source UI component library and front-end development framework based on Tailwind CSS
svelte-headlessui - Unofficial Svelte port of the Headless UI component library
antd - An enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library
pollen - The CSS variables build system
unocss - The instant on-demand atomic CSS engine.
modern-normalize - 🐒 Normalize browsers' default style
windicss - Next generation utility-first CSS framework.
vanilla-extract - Zero-runtime Stylesheets-in-TypeScript
emotion - 👩🎤 CSS-in-JS library designed for high performance style composition
Material UI - Ready-to-use foundational React components, free forever. It includes Material UI, which implements Google's Material Design.