Tailwind CSS VS twind

Compare Tailwind CSS vs twind and see what are their differences.

Tailwind CSS

A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development. (by tailwindlabs)

twind

The smallest, fastest, most feature complete Tailwind-in-JS solution in existence. (by tw-in-js)
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Tailwind CSS twind
1267 30
77,328 3,672
2.2% 0.9%
8.8 8.3
7 days ago 7 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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Tailwind CSS

Posts with mentions or reviews of Tailwind CSS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.

twind

Posts with mentions or reviews of twind. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-16.
  • Why We're Breaking Up with CSS-in-JS
    6 projects | /r/javascript | 16 Oct 2022
    I think TW syntax is great as a CSS shorthand. I think it can be a great tool for making highly descriptive styles in a far more succinct fashion. I think if you you use Twind compiler and you store TW syntax outside of your templates/JSX and you just compile it down to descriptive class names, that's a great use of Tailwind. Then you get the advantage of meaningful names applied to elements in the template, and if you need to refactor/fix a style, then you can find it much easier. It also makes it a lot more dynamic, which standard Tailwind which can be a PITA to make dynamic (e.g. for dynamic behavior in Twind, you can have functions that generate TW style strings and use interpolated strings without having to worry about if the build-time TW compiler understands all the possibilities).
  • Por que usar Deno Fresh como framework web?
    14 projects | dev.to | 10 Oct 2022
  • Why CSS-in-JS?
    4 projects | dev.to | 15 Aug 2022
    The CSS-in-JS library solves problems of global nature of CSS and of specificity by providing scoping in a unique class-name. It has some cost attached to it i.e run-time which is being solved by order libs vanilla-extract-css. I'm a big fan of tailwind and I honestly believe it is enough for your project. If you also need dynamic styles then CSS-in-JS is better over tailwind, though there are solutions like twind which provide a flavor of tailwind with the CSS-in-JS approach they do have all cons of any CSS-in- JS libraries. I'm very excited about styles by Facebook and waiting for the day it will be open-sourced or CSS itself evolves to me provide scoping and be more modular, until that day comes I'm betting on CSS-in-JS with stitches and vanilla-extract-css.
  • A quick review of the Fresh web framework
    4 projects | dev.to | 4 Jul 2022
    When initializing a new project, Fresh will also ask if you want to use Twind, which is a Tailwind-to-JS library. If you choose this option, then you will have the power of Tailwind without creating a config file or using PostCSS, which I thought is pretty cool.
  • tailwind: no simple way to get started
    9 projects | /r/tailwindcss | 11 Apr 2022
    Try https://twind.dev/
  • Entire website in a single JavaScript file
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2022
  • Tailwind vs Sass/SCSS: Structure and Consistency over Style and Comfort
    4 projects | dev.to | 10 Mar 2022
    There are other alternatives to just Tailwind or Sass. The option of Styled-components is also a good one, which enables the use of Sass/SCSS syntax within its tagged templates. You can also use Tailwind in conjunction with Styled-components using a library like Twin.macro or Twind.
  • πŸš€10 Trending projects on GitHub for web developers - 5th November 2021
    3 projects | dev.to | 5 Nov 2021
    Inspired by Windi CSS, Tailwind CSS, Twind but:
  • I built a simple but maybe useful "digital circuit simulador" of sorts (see comments)
    3 projects | /r/javascript | 27 Apr 2021
    The UI uses Dominant (my React/Vue substitute) and Twind, which I heard about from this Reddit and is super cool (:
  • [RFC] Airfoil: Coding an alternative to Tailwind
    2 projects | dev.to | 21 Apr 2021
    Tailwind (with the CSS-in-JS tool, twind) provides a mental model to organize utility classes without polluting the global stylesheet.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Tailwind CSS and twind you can also consider the following projects:

flowbite - Open-source UI component library and front-end development framework based on Tailwind CSS

antd - An enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library

unocss - The instant on-demand atomic CSS engine.

windicss - Next generation utility-first CSS framework.

emotion - πŸ‘©β€πŸŽ€ 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.

vuetify - πŸ‰ Vue Component Framework

chakra-ui - ⚑️ Simple, Modular & Accessible UI Components for your React Applications

element-plus - πŸŽ‰ A Vue.js 3 UI Library made by Element team

esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web

Bulma - Modern CSS framework based on Flexbox

nextui - πŸš€ Beautiful, fast and modern React UI library.