Show HN: Tailwind Builder – online editor for the Tailwind CSS framework

Re:Show HN: Tailwind Builder – online editor for the Tailwin... by jstummbillig on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:09AM (#21440538)

While I am sure that people will be using this, this product simply and completely disregards what Tailwind was designed for: Rapid development by building from utilities in just HTML and extracting into CSS components later. To quote from the Tailwind website: "Instead of opinionated predesigned components, Tailwind provides low-level utility classes that let you build completely custom designs without ever leaving your HTML."

You can agree or disagree with the paradigm -- but if you disagree, there really is no point in using Tailwind :)

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Re:Show HN: Tailwind Builder – online editor for the Tailwin... by milsebg on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:21AM (#21440598)

I really don't think this is a contradiction:

First, Tailwind encourages you to use apply to build reusable components,

second, Taking building blocks from a generator like the one posted here, makes at least to me more sense than it would be for Bootstrap: You see a component and can (thanks to utility classes) see how it's built and change the appearance relatively fast. With Bootstrap you would basically just add a component class and that's it - customizing is more complex then.

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Re:Show HN: Tailwind Builder – online editor for the Tailwin... by dimfeld on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:28PM (#21446113)

It's notable that the creator of Tailwind, Adam Wathan, is working on something similar [1]. Whether it fits the paradigm or not, there definitely seems to be a demand for such a thing.

On a recent episode of the Full Stack Radio podcast [2], Adam talked about his own upcoming Tailwind UI release and said that he hoped the utility class design of Tailwind would enable people to use the predesigned components as a starting point and easily customize them, should they desire.

[1]: https://www.tailwindui.com/ [2]: http://www.fullstackradio.com/123

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Re:Show HN: Tailwind Builder – online editor for the Tailwin... by kemyd on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:19AM (#21440591)

I can't agree. Tailwind is against components like "card" in Bootstrap. We do not use any custom CSS to build our components, only classes from Tailwind CSS. :)

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