Tailwind CSS Component Libraries: DaisyUI vs Preline

Which approach makes more sense on top of Tailwind? DaisyUI turning multiple classes into one class, or Preline giving you libraries of templates that you copy and paste into your own code?

#shorts

[RyanTipps]

Tailwind encourages "styling" to be done in components rather than in CSS classes. Preline seems to embrace this, while DaisyUI attempts to fix this.

[aritark]

the preline approach is how i generally use tailwind anyway, anytime i have repetition in classes i abstract it into a component. the daisy ui approach seems to be directly antithetical to the idea of tailwind

[khalilbessaad]

I find the Preline way better because it gives you the possibility to directly customize the styling

[phucnguyen]

Oh damn, gotta try Preline - thanks Jack!

[SanjuKumar-hkyy]

Thanks jack. I love both daisyUI and Preline.

[blakepetersen]

Daisy. Preline approach forces way more HTML to be sent to the client than necessary which isn’t cachable on the client like static assets are.

[WillDelish]

I love using Daisy UI! I think its the best option for quickly getting a site looking good and then you can customize or replace as you go.

[SlateIvanovo]

I think is better than obfuscating complexity behind some bootstrap-like class. Theo mentioned Shadcn's UI recently, and I think it's the way tailwind component libs should go

[quelchx]

Here I am still using MUI in the professional world but I use Chakra UI for side projects/smaller projects for clients.

[frz_akbar]

the reason I use tailwind is for customization, so I think preline is better

[crisis]

thanks a lot I suffered a lot for this

[mdkawsarislamyeasin]

I love Flowbit
that's because i get all thing that I need
I can copy and paste
also I can use with react also

[pennyberry]

Yeah looked into recastui it seems interesting. It's got theming with CVA so more like chakra-ui or theme-ui approach. Waiting for stable version but looks good.

[dacam]

We are back to 2008 PHP/Ruby style with RSC and now to 2011/2017 Bootstrap/MUI with Tailwind "frameworks"... 🔥⚡️

[BarisPalabiyik]

I use tailwind ui mostly but if I had to choose other, I would go with shadcn - It has proper premade components and their source code to just copy and paste and customize them fully. I had to deal with variants and cva with tailwind ui when I do stuff like that.

[CaptainBullzAQW]

just love to do it manually as a designer haha, i uses sass!

[prgrmr]

Well, to be honest, if I am going to avoid tailwind it will be because of the long class attributes, and I think the most viable options for me at that point would be Bootstrap or maybe Material UI

[ste-fa-no]

I'm used to writing my own css, but I'd use something like Preline

[docmars]

I think it boils down to:

- Do you like Daisy's overall feel and don't mind overriding the crap out of it when you need to?
- Or do you like Preline's atomic strengths from using Tailwind's utilities, lending to easier customization?

[nithinraj]

shadcn Radix UI and Tailwind CSS is the best