Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus

I wouldn’t get too excited about it to be honest. At one time they were also supporting Vue but it is now basically abandoned.

They also had a figma design library that went away. Kinda silly if you want to get designers on the same page.

It’s tailwindcss for a reason

At this point, the new crop of AI enhanced design tools are basically skipping vector based design and jumping right to code. A lot of them are using ShadCN/UI which is styled using Tailwind, so it's more like designers are somewhat unknowingly getting onto the same page as Tailwind.

This is Vue support.

With so many frameworks out there it's infeasible to build custom wrappers for them all. With web components they can build once, and work everywhere. It's only up to the frameworks to make sure they have great web components support (which just means great HTML support).

Vue has great web component support. Even React 19 (finally!) does.

Web components are a mess but this is a great application of them: shipping reusable components that work in all frameworks. It's the one and only killer application of web components.

Frankly I'm surprised they're marketing this as "for vanilla javascript" and not as a "now supports all frameworks" type positioning.

That’s not really the point. Tailwind UI depends on Headless UI. Headless UI had both Vue and React packages. The Vue package was abandoned. Many are in the process of finding workarounds for the issues or moving to another library. This new shiny thing can be used in Vue, sure. I know better now to not build anything on top of it though.