DaisyUI is great but it is 947KB and includes all of Tailwind's utilities. Many of us just want a clean Tailwind adapter without the component layer.
Proposal: A standalone Tailwind adapter that uses Tailwind's utility classes directly in the adapter CSS, or better yet, a PostCSS build that generates only the utilities BaseFrame actually uses.
Benefits:
- Much smaller file size (probably 50-80KB)
- No class name conflicts with
Bootstrap
- Full control over the design
- Tailwind's color system maps perfectly to BaseFrame's --bf-* variables
For now, the
DaisyUI adapter
works well if you do not mind the extra size. Anyone else interested in a lightweight Tailwind option?
Yes! I've been wanting this too. DaisyUI is opinionated about component design which sometimes clashes with how I want things to look. Pure Tailwind would let us use the utility classes without the component assumptions.
I'd even volunteer to help build it. I've been using Tailwind CLI standalone (no Node.js build step) on other projects.
The Tailwind CLI standalone binary approach would be perfect for BaseFrame's no-build-tools philosophy. You'd run it once to generate the CSS, ship the output file as the lib, and the adapter just maps bf-* classes to Tailwind utilities.
That's exactly what I had in mind. The @apply approach means the shipped CSS has zero Tailwind runtime — it's just plain CSS that happens to follow Tailwind's design system. Best of both worlds.
