zag VS Tailwind CSS

Zag.js and Ark are headless component libraries created by the teams behind Chakra UI.

ChakraUI: An emphasis on A11y, meaning it is fully compatible with the WAI-ARIA accessibility standard, has won OSS awards, and has a thriving community. As mentioned, it’s one of the better choices out there as it has a great model for building composable UI, built-in hooks, and great dark-mode support. This is the same team behind Zag.js, which handles UI as state machines. Once again, you’d need to learn the API, and swapping might be hard to do.

I agree with what another poster said about Zag (also part of the Chakra project). It seems to me that eventually, with the explosion of number of frameworks, consolidation is going to happen. Segun is influential enough that Zag has a good chance of being what the consolidation ends up centering around.

it's not perfect yet, but I find zagjs promising

Keep an eye on ZAG and ARK from the Chakra UI team, I feel like together with UnoCSS that could get very powerful.

🔗 Head over to https://zagjs.com/ to learn more about Zag.js and get started with building accessible UI components in your web applications!

The Zag.js documentation can be found here: https://zagjs.com/.

Lastly, Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework packed with classes like flex, pt-4, text-center, and rotate-90 that can be composed to build any design, directly in your markup.

Tailwind CSS

Sidekiq is already configured along with assets, tailwindsCSS.

Finally, for our front end, we’re going to be pairing Next.js with the great combination of TailwindCSS and shadcn/ui so we can focus on building the functionality of the app and let them handle making it look awesome!

You can use any frontend framework you want — react-based tooling, however, has a natural advantage as it models everything as a function of state, which can map 1:1 with the concept in Burr. In the demo app we use react, react-query, and tailwind, but we’ll be skipping over this largely (it is not central to the purpose of the post).

Tailwind CSS: A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs.

First, you need to make sure that you have a working Tailwind CSS project…

Tailwind CSS

With better CSS approaches like TailwindCSS and Vanilla Extract (which we're heavily using) it's much easier to maintain the UI and make sure it doesn't change unexpectedly. No more conflicting CSS classes, much less CSS specificity issues and much less CSS code in general.