tailwindcss-forms VS twin.macro

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.

Twin Macro Github Repo. This is a great resource to help you pick up Twin’s syntax, learn more about the package, and keep up to date with the latest releases.

Personally I like twin.macro the most. It’s similar to the above but based on Tailwind.

twin.macro is a library that allows you to use these styles in your JavaScript code. This library works exactly like styled-components.

One of the more promising alternatives is twin.macro - a Babel macro that processes Tailwind classes to generate JS objects understandable by various CSS-in-JS libraries. The developer experience (DX) of using it is amazing as you not only get all of Tailwind’s features without much change to your code, but you also get much more flexibility - all that on top of the traditional benefits of CSS-in-JS. Here’s an example code:

twin.macro

If you use Tailwind with React a lot, and are wanting support for Styled Components, give Twin Macro a look. They're close to finishing support for TW v3 in their Releases section :)

The blocker for us using it is our use of an excellent library called twin.macro which is built against babel's transpilation APIs to parse tailwindcss directives at compile time so that they may be used with css-in-js libraries. This efficiently bundles your css so that you only ship the precise css you use. The problem is, it's all quite slow.