tailwindcss-rails VS stimulus-use

Compare tailwindcss-rails vs stimulus-use and see what are their differences.

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tailwindcss-rails stimulus-use
20 9
1,333 1,374
2.2% 3.5%
8.5 8.7
21 days ago 3 days ago
Ruby JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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tailwindcss-rails

Posts with mentions or reviews of tailwindcss-rails. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-09.
  • Is the default importmap method unrealistic in the most popular real world use cases?
    5 projects | /r/rails | 9 May 2023
    You can't use additional CSS packages (like Flowbite) with the official tailwindcss-rails gem. According to this answered issue, you should either give up importmap and use a bundler, or use a CSS file from CDN - which is not ideal (unnecessary classes won't be purged this way).
  • How to bundle assets in a Rails engine
    3 projects | dev.to | 10 Jan 2023
    You first install your asset handlers as you need them for your project. They can be anything from rails/jsbundling-rails and rails/tailwindcss-rails to webpacker or something custom.
  • Setup TailwindCSS, postcss and esbuild on Rails 7
    12 projects | dev.to | 12 Oct 2022
    Preconfigured TailwindCSS from TailwindCSS-rails ready to use out of the box, pass --css tailwind as an option.✅
  • User notifications with Rails, Noticed, and Hotwire
    4 projects | dev.to | 21 Mar 2022
    Thanks to the magic of Rails, the scaffold generator gives us almost everything we need to start creating messages and associating them with users. Because we are using Tailwind via the tailwindcss-rails gem, the scaffold generator also includes some nice looking base styles too.
  • Pagination and infinite scrolling with Rails and the Hotwire stack
    7 projects | dev.to | 4 Feb 2022
    Because we are using Tailwind via the tailwindcss-rails gem, the scaffold generator applies some basic Tailwind styling to generated views, so we have nice looking Widget pages right out of the box.
  • Launching Multiple Processes with a Single Command in Rails
    2 projects | dev.to | 31 Jan 2022
    Here's a simple way to achieve this, inspired by the tailwindcss-rails gem.
  • Upgrading from Rails 6.x Webpacker to Rails 7 Importmaps
    7 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2022
    gem "rails", "~> 7.0.0" # The original asset pipeline for Rails [https://github.com/rails/sprockets-rails] gem "sprockets-rails" # Use postgresql as the database for Active Record gem "pg", "~> 1.1" # Use the Puma web server [https://github.com/puma/puma] gem "puma", "~> 5.0" # Use JavaScript with ESM import maps [https://github.com/rails/importmap-rails] gem "importmap-rails" # Hotwire's SPA-like page accelerator [https://turbo.hotwired.dev] gem "turbo-rails" # Hotwire's modest JavaScript framework [https://stimulus.hotwired.dev] gem "stimulus-rails" # Use Tailwind CSS [https://github.com/rails/tailwindcss-rails] gem "tailwindcss-rails" # Build JSON APIs with ease [https://github.com/rails/jbuilder] gem "jbuilder" gem "redis", "~> 4.0"
  • Rails 7 Tailwind Scaffold Question
    3 projects | /r/rails | 23 Dec 2021
    When you generate an app with rails new --css=tailwind without a JS option, you get the tailwindcss-rails gem which includes the new scaffold generators. When you pass in a JavaScript option as well, you get Tailwind installed via cssbundling-rails, which does not include built-in generators since it offers more than just Tailwind as an option.
  • Effortlessly install TailwindCss in a Rails app with Webpack (minimum configuration)
    2 projects | dev.to | 22 Aug 2021
    A while back DHH decided to created a gem for easily installing TailwindCss into rails apps 🙌🏻. This gem could be used to install Tailwind through the asset pipeline as well as using webpack. This changed later on as contributors wanted to focus their attention to what was the heart of the gem 🥺.
  • Rails and Inertia.js - The Modern Monolith
    3 projects | dev.to | 13 Jul 2021
    I'm going to use the tailwindcss-rails gem, the only thing you need to do is to run these two commands in the console:

stimulus-use

Posts with mentions or reviews of stimulus-use. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-19.
  • A powerful search feature with what Rails provides out of the box
    6 projects | dev.to | 19 Jan 2023
    You can see that I added a dependency here: stimulus-use.
  • Discover Symfony UX’s Twig Components. UI without JS or BS.
    6 projects | dev.to | 21 Aug 2022
    “stimulus-use: Add composable behaviors to your Stimulus controllers, like debouncing, detecting outside clicks and many other things.
  • RVTWS: a Ruby stack for modern web apps
    9 projects | dev.to | 24 Jun 2022
    Actually, Stimulus is pretty cool because you can compose multiple pre-built behaviors into one Stimulus controller, for a sort of functional approach to component behaviors. The tradeoff is that a growing web of Stimulus controllers (plus HTML data attributes associated with them) can become complex and hard to understand.
  • Tailwind style CSS transitions with StimulusJS
    3 projects | dev.to | 1 Jun 2022
    The stimulus-use project is a collection of reusable behaviors for Stimulus. If you are familiar with React, this project is similar to React’s hooks system, but for Stimulus controllers.
  • Pagination and infinite scrolling with Rails and the Hotwire stack
    7 projects | dev.to | 4 Feb 2022
    To make using the IntersectionObserver API easier, we will add the wonderful stimulus-use package to our application. This is not a requirement, but it does simplify the code a bit.
  • Upgrade to Stimulus 3, say bye to IE11, and celebrate 🎉
    4 projects | dev.to | 19 Oct 2021
    Finally, as we recently added the Stimulus-Use library to our project, we made sure to upgrade it to current beta which supports Stimulus 3.
  • Migrating Selenium system tests to Cuprite
    10 projects | dev.to | 4 Oct 2021
    For example, we have a few ”live search“ fields, backed by back-end Fetch requests, on some pages. The live search function was usually triggered by the keyup event and Cuprite was such a fast typewriter that it frequently sent multiple requests almost at once. If some of the responses got a bit late or out of sync, the front-end JavaScript code began hitting issues. We solved this by adopting a technique called debouncing and, frankly, we should have done this since the beginning. By the way, we used the useDebounce module from the marvelous Stimulus-use library to achieve this.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tailwindcss-rails and stimulus-use you can also consider the following projects:

Capybara - Acceptance test framework for web applications

cssbundling-rails - Bundle and process CSS in Rails with Tailwind, PostCSS, and Sass via Node.js.

dropzone - Dropzone is an easy to use drag'n'drop library. It supports image previews and shows nice progress bars.

Pagy - 🏆 The Best Pagination Ruby Gem 🥇

hotwire-example-template - A collection of branches that transmit HTML over the wire.

Foreman - Manage Procfile-based applications

sprockets-rails - Sprockets Rails integration

flutter-roadmap - Roadmap for Flutter developers in 2020

importmap-rails - Use ESM with importmap to manage modern JavaScript in Rails without transpiling or bundling.

cuprite - Headless Chrome/Chromium driver for Capybara

ferrum - Headless Chrome Ruby API