Tailwind CSS VS nextui

There is a new trend gaining traction lately which is called “Locality of Behaviour principle”. It is a great new name for an old concept - cohesion. It’s growing lately around HTMX and TailwindCSS communities, but it’s an useful concept in general.

TailwindCSS

I built the frontend using nextjs with typescript. I am personally a fan of react-query and tailwind, so I used both of them in my project.

I began by researching different approaches to installing Tailwind into my computer and going over the documentation on how to get started. Luckily Tailwind has comprehensive documentation, covering everything from installation to customization. After creating the folder structure and setting up the config according to the style guide, that’s when the challenge really began. It was difficult to read through my HTML, I couldn’t wrap my head around how bloated it was.

Installing TailwindCSS TailwindCSS is a utility-first CSS framework packed with classes to help us style our web page. To use it in our application, run the command below in our terminal.

Since this tool was just for testing, I wanted a simple CSS solution so that I didn't have to focus on styling. I went with MVP.css and Tailwind for small tweaks. It worked really well, but in the future, I'd like to take a look at Pico.css, which I just learned about from this Fireship video.

Tailwind CSS: tailwindcss.com

On the other hand for this integration, there is TailwindCSS, and unless you’re living under a rock, you should at least listen about it. TailwindCSS and is an utilitiy-first CSS framework that offers a pack full of classes that can be composed to create any design. It is like writing CSS without writing CSS.

NiceGUI runs on top of FastAPI which allows you to add authentication, routing, OpenAPI specs, and other backend functionality to your projects. The frontend is implemented using Vue, Quasar, and Tailwind, but you don’t need to be familiar with these technologies to create beautiful user interfaces. NiceGUI prioritizes simplicity and user-friendliness, while still offering the option for advanced customization through its extensibility.

Now that you have locally set up a Nuxt.js project we will proceed by installing Tailwind CSS.

Link: https://nextui.org/

Also take a look at nextui.org

A library like MUI or NextUI gets you a more modern experience out of the box with support for more complex and interactivity driven components.

But when I click on it, I am not redirected to https://github.com/nextui-org/nextui, and I get this in my vscode window when I hover over href: Type '{ children: Element[]; isPressable: true; isHoverable: true; variant: "bordered"; css: { mw: "400px"; }; href: string; }' is not assignable to type 'IntrinsicAttributes & Props & { css?: CSS | undefined; } & RefAttributes'. Property 'href' does not exist on type 'IntrinsicAttributes & Props & { css?: CSS | undefined; } & RefAttributes'. Did you mean 'ref'?ts(2322)

but if I had to choose ill take https://nextui.org/

nextUi I like this one too

NextUI looks very promising.