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Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus

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304 points ulrischa | 11 comments | 25 Jul 25 18:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.411s | source | bottom
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bikeshaving ◴[25 Jul 25 19:02 UTC] No.44686961[source]▶
This is a exciting use-case for custom elements, and probably how tailwind should have been implemented from the start, but it’s hilariously a paid feature?! (https://tailwindcss.com/plus#pricing) Intuitively, I’d expect the custom elements to be free and the framework integrations to cost money.
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1. gavinray ◴[25 Jul 25 19:03 UTC] No.44686977[source]▶
Tailwind Plus is a paid collection of UI components and templates.

TailwindCSS itself is meant to be nothing more than a styling tool, like Bootstrap...

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2. bikeshaving ◴[25 Jul 25 19:05 UTC] No.44687008[source]▶
The title of the blog post mentions Tailwind Plus so I’m assuming it’s a paid feature. The ambiguity is probably intentional.
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3. Alupis ◴[25 Jul 25 19:08 UTC] No.44687074[source]▶
It's not very expensive, all things considered. $299 for a single-user perpetual license (includes all future updates too) or about $1k for a team license[1].

If it saves you a bunch of time writing and maintaining the sort of components they are showing off, probably worth it?

[1] https://tailwindcss.com/plus#pricing

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4. bikeshaving ◴[25 Jul 25 19:15 UTC] No.44687164{3}[source]▶
Listen, I’m not against the Tailwind team getting their bag – they worked hard and created an amazing open source library. I just don’t think it’s in the interest of either users or maintainers to put vanilla JavaScript support behind a paywall.

Edit: apparently all framework integrations and the whole library and functionality is behind the same paywall? And regular tailwind is just the css classes/build process that I used to know? Do people not understand how casual readers might be confused about all this?

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5. monkey_monkey ◴[25 Jul 25 19:16 UTC] No.44687188{4}[source]▶
The entire component library is behind a paywall...are you saying they should be giving away the vanilla JS version?
6. yieldcrv ◴[25 Jul 25 19:20 UTC] No.44687227{4}[source]▶
You can use vanilla tailwind with vanilla JavaScript
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8. whatever1 ◴[25 Jul 25 19:54 UTC] No.44687639{3}[source]▶
ChatGPT can just steal it for me!
9. cschmatzler ◴[25 Jul 25 19:59 UTC] No.44687692{3}[source]▶
Yeah I strongly emphasise with them getting their money - the only problem with headless components being behind a paid license is that you cannot build a design system on top of them and open source it.
10. conradfr ◴[25 Jul 25 22:49 UTC] No.44689417[source]▶
Bootstrap has javascript components.
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11. dzonga ◴[26 Jul 25 10:54 UTC] No.44693070[source]▶
different business models. bootstrap was made by twitter which was making money in it's way. while tailwind their monetary model is selling components.

for me the only thing I wish bootstrap had was the money color options tailwind has e.g bg-indigo-400 etc