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Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus

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304 points ulrischa | 2 comments | 25 Jul 25 18:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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1. bluetidepro ◴[25 Jul 25 21:07 UTC] No.44688486[source]▶
I think you are confused? Tailwind is already free and open source? These are just components they sale that are pre-made to save you time. It doesn’t take away much at all from the full experience?
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2. devmor ◴[25 Jul 25 22:03 UTC] No.44689029[source]▶
From the linked article:

> To pull this off, we built @tailwindplus/elements — a library we're releasing exclusively for Tailwind Plus customers.

This means if you want to use the Tailwind UI components without a Javascript framework, you have to build them all yourself, or pay.