Using Tailwind UI
Hey guys, has anyone here used tailwind UI in there project before? I read it was built with Next.js so intergrating it with a Next.js project shouldn't be that difficult. I'm trying to purchase a ui library for my company and Tailwind UI has been the best i've seen so far... Or which other ui library is suited well with Next.js
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https://ui.shadcn.com/ probably by far
You get built components that are easily editted unlike tailwindui
I own a license to tailwindui and am generally underwhelmed by what it gives you. The components you get are just a mess and not easily workable without change
I like Shadcn a lot more than Tailwindui
e.g. what keef is saying. Tailwindui just gives you some boilerplate HTML and tailwind classes.
wow. i just read about shadcn ui and there was no pricing but it give alot of pre-built component
if its actually free. This just saves us a lot
Thanks so much keef
sponsor them if it works for you 😄
lol
can i ask something else?? just need clarity
i guess you can just go ahead and ask lol
okay, so i think i've seen this discussion some other place... The latest version of Next.js focus fully on the fullstack aspect, in our company over here, the frontend and backend developers use different stacks and technologies, what i want to know is can the latest version of Next js be used only for the frontend part. we seem a bit reluctant to switch to it, we still use version 12 - 13.2
you can
just because its a server component, does not mean that you can't use something like fetch a resource or use graphql
yes ofc, i've done a project with using flask and dotnet as backend while using nextjs 13(page router) for frontend
being able to run fully on server allow you to do other kind of operations? yes, but that does not "kill" other operations
hahahaha its very weird combo but was trying to learn new stuff and see how it works
is next a full stack framework? yes
does that mean that you can't use only as a frontend or a backend? no
thanks guys... about shadcn ui i'll let everyone know about it. so please this thread will still be used to ask questions pertaining shadcn ui, please guys
another quick one... some devs were asked to learn typescript cuz they only know js... They kept asking the importance of typescript and it will delay the project we currently on a bit... i want to know how important is typescript?? dont developers build with pure javascript again?
for some decent time people started to give the preference to ts
the lsp experience, being able to catch errors before you run the code is an amazing plus
typescript allows you do to stuff like https://trpc.io/
tRPC - Move Fast and Break Nothing.
End-to-end typesafe APIs made e...
End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy. Automatic typesafety & autocompletion inferred from your API-paths, their input data, & outputs 🧙♂️
It's more upfront cost of learning a little bit and setting up a little bit (unless you let t3 et al scaffold for you) but the sheer amount of dumb errors it prevents will be extremely worth it in the long run and save you back the setup time easily. Just knowing exactly what your functions expect and having some safeguards against undefined poisoning alone will prevent so many headaches and roadblocks later.
Reading the docs, i see tRPC as a more full package option, and for me here that the backend developers are different and doing their stuff from the frontend developers... Asking them to implement this might just be 🤯
i already have little knowledge of typescript. but the way everyone talking and using it just makes me wonder if js is not a thing anymore...
i'm more of a frontend dev and i want to fully start using typescript... currently reading and watching tutorials on it, just want to have a clear roadmap not to encounter a huge error i wouldn't know how to solve in future as i begin my next project
I use them but you need to understand Tailwinds and how your application logic works. You take bits and pieces of what they offer and mix it in with what they have