tailwindcss-forms VS daisyui

The forms plugin is similar to the typography plugin. Because Tailwind CSS’ resets also affect form elements, the job of the forms plugin is to give form elements a set of pretty, default styles. The default styles are minimal so you won't want to use them as is, but they make a convenient base you can override and extend.

Let's copy a form component from HyperUI, and edit it to make it work for us. If you use one of their form components, make sure to install the TailwindCSS forms plugin.

Install tailwind css and tailwindcss/forms.

If you're in a hurry: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss-forms

Finally Tailwind is the last CSS framework it can generate, which also has checkbox labels to the right: https://tailwindcss-forms.vercel.app/

We'll also utilize Tailwind's Forms Plugin to make it easier to style our Auth component, so let's install that as well:

I want to install tailwindcss-forms plugin on Deno but couldn't.

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/