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Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus

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304 points ulrischa | 1 comments | 25 Jul 25 18:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.244s | source
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abtinf ◴[25 Jul 25 19:20 UTC] No.44687235[source]▶
The world would be a significantly better place if someone could throw a small mountain of money at the Tailwind folks so that they can stop worrying about money and simply make the full tailwind experience freely available. There are so many lost opportunities for deep integration with other projects.

Kind of like how Jeff Bezos threw a bunch of money at 37signals at some insane valuation, which helped them completely avoid the VC trap.

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jw1224 ◴[25 Jul 25 19:32 UTC] No.44687365[source]▶
The “full Tailwind experience” is already freely available. What “lost opportunities for deep integration” is a frontend CSS framework missing?

Tailwind Plus (the commercial product) is like buying an off-the-shelf template. It’s just a collection of themes and pre-built components — useful for devs who want to get started quickly on a project, but it’s cookie-cutter and can easily be replicated by anyone with Tailwind itself.

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1. vinnymac ◴[25 Jul 25 19:53 UTC] No.44687609[source]▶
There are devs who think the currently available HTML elements are all we needed. But there are many more that believe we are missing primitives that Tailwind (and others) is attempting to solve for.

> It’s just a collection of themes and pre-built components

All reusable web components could be described as an optionally themed pre-built component. That's kind of the point.