Beginner-friendly guide to use Tailwind CSS with Jekyll

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  • jekyll-starter-tailwind

    Jekyll starter styled with Tailwind CSS

  • daisyui

    ๐ŸŒผ ๐ŸŒผ ๐ŸŒผ ๐ŸŒผ ๐ŸŒผ โ€ƒThe most popular, free and open-source Tailwind CSS component library

  • I personally like and use DaisyUI for such "components" type of things: https://daisyui.com/

    Does its job, gets out of my and helpful docs as well.

  • 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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  • headlessui

    Completely unstyled, fully accessible UI components, designed to integrate beautifully with Tailwind CSS.

  • Yes, there are tons of those now. No doubt because of the popularity of things like Tailwind. This one is particularly popular: https://headlessui.dev/

  • Tailwind CSS

    A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

  • in my experience things like Tailwind are mostly pushed by managers, not developers

    the managers see how simple it is to build complex UIs in Tailwind and then project it into how much resources they can save their company and how quickly they'll be able to iterate on design-side of things

    a major problem in projects that are built with tailwind is that the code produced is unmaintainable, unreadable spaghetti

    you can even see it in their own home page if you scroll down a couple sections

    https://tailwindcss.com

    tailwind requires a build system and introduces 500+ npm dependencies, which is a huge security risk

    personally i think Tailwind is snake-oil and would avoid it at all costs

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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