18 Alternatives to Using Tailwind CSS: Do You Really Need It?

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  • oocss

    Object Oriented CSS Framework

    ✨ BEM 💥 Object Oriented CSS 🌟 Atomic CSS

  • less.js

    Less. The dynamic stylesheet language.

    ✨ LESS 💥 PostCSS 🌟 Sass ☄️ stylis.js 🚀 stylus

  • 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.

  • tachyons

    Functional css for humans

    Tachyons 💥 Shed.css 🌟 Basscss ☄️ Expressive CSS

  • stylus

    Expressive, robust, feature-rich CSS language built for nodejs

    ✨ LESS 💥 PostCSS 🌟 Sass ☄️ stylis.js 🚀 stylus

  • PostCSS

    Transforming styles with JS plugins

    ✨ LESS 💥 PostCSS 🌟 Sass ☄️ stylis.js 🚀 stylus

  • Sass

    Sass makes CSS fun!

    ✨ LESS 💥 PostCSS 🌟 Sass ☄️ stylis.js 🚀 stylus

  • stylelint

    A mighty CSS linter that helps you avoid errors and enforce conventions.

    Stylelint 💥 cssnano

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • stylis

    light – weight css preprocessor

    ✨ LESS 💥 PostCSS 🌟 Sass ☄️ stylis.js 🚀 stylus

  • cssnano

    A modular minifier, built on top of the PostCSS ecosystem.

    ✨ Stylelint 💥 cssnano

  • basscss

    Low-level CSS Toolkit – the original Functional/Utility/Atomic CSS library

    ✨ Tachyons 💥 Shed.css 🌟 Basscss ☄️ Expressive CSS

  • css-loader

    CSS Loader

    ✨ css loader 💥 jss 🌟 csjs ☄️ aphrodite

  • JSS

    JSS is an authoring tool for CSS which uses JavaScript as a host language.

    ✨ css loader 💥 jss 🌟 csjs ☄️ aphrodite

  • csjs

    :sparkles: Modular, scoped CSS with ES6

    ✨ css loader 💥 jss 🌟 csjs ☄️ aphrodite

  • Aphrodite

    Framework-agnostic CSS-in-JS with support for server-side rendering, browser prefixing, and minimum CSS generation

    ✨ css loader 💥 jss 🌟 csjs ☄️ aphrodite

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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