Micro VS classnames

At the time we were listing projects like Hyper and Micro alongside our other better known ones. As those projects became less of a focus, I believe someone with good intentions in the team wanted to prioritize the ones we contribute to instead that are relevant to our frontend focus, and not confuse our audience.

micro: A library for asynchronous HTTP microservices.

What is great about Next.js is the ability to create API Routes. This could be really useful in a lot of situations, especially if you have a sprawling REST API endpoint and want a minimal set of data returned from it, you could massage that data down to only the content you need on your frontend. In fact, Next.js has it's own express-like server-side framework called Micro.

That is an option. You could also opt to use the server micro that powers nextjs alone by itself https://github.com/vercel/micro , assuming you don't need to produce a frontend for it. I generally don't use nextjs api routes so I'm not sure what you'd lose/gain with that route though.

The function runtime is based on a fast, and lightweight HTTP library called micro. To use kazi, you first have to install it via npm. Run the command npm i -g @kazi-faas/cli to install it.

You're going to build your first image using the pack CLI. Go to buildpacks.io/docs/tools/pack and follow the instruction for your OS to install it. You're going to create and deploy a Node.js web app that will return a string. Run the command below to create the project and install micro (an HTTP library for building microservices)

I don't see what benefit it brings. You can use micro directly and save yourself from installing megabytes of dependencies. Next JS API routes are handled via micro.

The wonderful team of vercel has exactly what we need to run this thing, it is package called micro. You can install it using the menu on the side bar. Click on the little icon that looks like a box, and then search for micro. Select the package and click the plus sign.

The component needs the classname dependency and a search icon which I referenced to work. So install the classname package and download the search icon below.

classnames: Makes dynamic CSS class application a breeze. Learn more

But of course, it is a button, so it could have multiple variants: primary and secondary(you can increase the number of customizable params, but we will limit it to 1, variant). To implement this you can use any library for combining classnames, for example, classnames, clsx. Let’s use the classic one, "classnames".

Use classnames and you can comma delimited your class names where needed.

To get started with our image modal implementation, i'll assume you already have a React project set up. For UI i’m using Tailwind CSS. But you can use any UI library as your wish. For the image cropping and rotating functionality, we'll be utilizing the react-easy-crop library. This library provides a simple and intuitive way to crop and interact with images and videos within a React component. We will also use the heroicons and classnames libraries in our tutorial. To install all the libraries and their dependencies, open your terminal and navigate to your project's directory. Run the following command:

Save yourself some headache and use https://github.com/JedWatson/classnames

There is an NPM module called classnames that makes this a bit easier: https://www.npmjs.com/package/classnames

To use the global Tailwind types from styles/cssClasses.d.ts, I've leveraged a lot of work from this post, so credit goes there for a lot of the complex TypeScript wizardry that makes things work. In essence, it builds upon the classnames (or clsx) to provide a helper function that gives us with the type safety we're after. This cleverness means we get type checking that works with whitespace, multiple classes (e.g., "container p-5")and arbitrary values (e.g., "border-[5px]"). The input "container p-5 invalid-class" provides the nifty error message:

but I wouldn't recommend it, because I think the point of using tailwind is to not having to abstract class into component based style. it even better to write tailwind classes into the html directly and to use tailwind-fun sparingly and only if you needed to add logic to your classes. tailwind-fun purpose is more like of https://www.npmjs.com/package/classnames rather than any other css library

Use the classnames library, that way I can group the utility classes together (one line) and break them up into multiple lines, and additionally have some of them be conditional based on variables/parameters;