Don't use Tailwind for your Design System

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  • Tailwind CSS

    A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

  • Theme with strong defaults, beautiful and scalar. The config generates all the values needed to produce a scaled system based on all those tokens. For example, spacing. The defaultConfig will generate spacing based on a scale from 0 to 96 that goes from 0px until 24rems. defaultConfig

  • taco

    Layout primitives written with ReasonReact and styled-ppx (by davesnx)

  • Storybook and repository https://github.com/davesnx/taco.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • theme-ui

    Build consistent, themeable React apps based on constraint-based design principles

  • https://theme-ui.com

  • tachyons

    Functional css for humans

  • The reason why I think Tailwind is amazing have nothing to do with their utility classes. Those utility classes have been around the Frontend community for a long time - tachyons has been created around 2016. Even some people found them pleasant to use I personally prefer to write directly CSS.

  • stitches

    [Not Actively Maintained] CSS-in-JS with near-zero runtime, SSR, multi-variant support, and a best-in-class developer experience.

  • https://stitches.dev

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