Top 5 Open-Source Tailwind Components To Speed Up Your Development

Code Axion The Security Breach
4 min readNov 27, 2022

If you’re a Web Developer, chances are you’ve heard of TailwindCSS. It’s a popular CSS framework that is gaining a lot of popularity nowadays. While some people say it doesn’t have any components like Bootstrap, that’s not true! Tailwind does support components from the official TailwindCSS website which is TailwindUI, but the problem is they are mostly paid. The interesting part is that there are 3rd party companies that offer high-quality & free components of tailwind, and they are well made just like bootstrap. This means that you can get all the benefits of Bootstrap Components In Tailwind .

Today we are gonna take a look on Top 5 Free Tailwind Components which you can use it in your projects and will save you alot of time.

# Top 5 | Tailblocks.cc

So as the name suggest itself it offers ready to use blocks on your projects and its on the top 5 list because it provides the basic scaffolding for mulitple layout sections like Heroes, Ecommerce, features, blog, testimonials, contact etc…

Pros:

  • It has 60+ Blocks
  • Provides Scaffolding of layouts
  • Responsive
  • Dark Mode Support
  • Color Variations

Cons:

Doesnt have enough content and looks very basic so you have to customize alittle bit and is only applicable for simple websites only .

Final words: can be used if you wanna build a frontend website within a day or 2 or for building small projects

# Top 4 | TailwindComponents

TailwindComponents is like a Community-Driven website where every member post their own collection of free or paid UI templates or components that can be used to bootstrap new apps, projects, and landing pages. You will find great designs here by great Frontend Developers of the Commumity

pros :

  • 600+ Componentss
  • Have alot of design options in several categories like Dashboard ,Heroes, authentication pages, landing pages, Pricing pages, SASS Pages etc.. and components like Breadcrumbs, typography, accordians, navbars, modals etc..

Cons:

Some designs may not be appealing to you so you have spend some time finding one that works for you

Final words : can be used when you are searching for Landing pages, SASS pages , Business pages or widgets etc..

Now It’s time for my Top 3 Favorite List

# Top 3 | TailwindButtons

Sometimes you want something more than a simple button design, like animation or effects on the button

This is where Tailwind Buttons enters the Competition it provides Premium Quality Buttons including variety of different Animations , Elegant Styles and Colors .

This product is also on the product hunt

Pros

  • A unique collection of Copy & Paste TailwindCSS buttons
  • Includes different styles of buttons like dark mode , funky and animation styled buttons

Cons

Limited No. of Buttons

Final Words: Cool when you need more than a simple button and can be used in all types of websites .

# Top 2 | Flowbite

An open-source library of over 450+ UI components, sections, and pages built with the utility classes from Tailwind CSS and designed in Figma.

It has been used by Big companies like Reddit, Youtube , DEV, Product Hunt etc…

This is my favorite when it comes to playing with components it has wide range of responsive components just like boostrap and i have use this website alot for components like alerts, footers, datatable , form fields, menus, navigation etc…

It Includes Pro version of Flowbite which includes a Figma design kit based on the utility classes from Tailwind CSS and hundreds of coded pages and components including application UI, marketing UI, and e-commerce layouts.

Pros

  • 450+ Premium Quality Components
  • Used By Big Companies
  • Includes Unique Components like Skeleton, Drawers, Mega Menu etc…
  • Desinged In Figma
  • Responsive
  • Support for Languages like React , Vue , Laravel , Django etc..
  • Amazing Ratings & Downloads Globally

# TOP 1 | Meraki UI

Now comes my most Favorite website which provides premium quality templates & components and also gives support with AlpineJS

In my opinion, this website does not require any explanation, as it is already excellent

Meraki UI is Tailwind CSS Components That Support RTL Languages & Fully Responsive Based On Flexbox & CSS Grid with elegant Dark Mode.

Pros

  • Responsive
  • MIT Licensed
  • Premium Quality Components
  • Great Reviews by Innovative Creators

Cons

No Cons .

Bonus

  1. TailwindUI

This is the Official Website from Tailwind which provides Beautifully designed, expertly crafted components and templates, built by the makers of Tailwind CSS. The perfect starting point for your next project. Over 500+ professionally designed, fully responsive, expertly crafted component examples you can drop into your Tailwind projects and customize to your heart’s content.

--

--

Code Axion The Security Breach

A Developer Who Enjoys Code Refactoring, Optimizing, and Improving The performance of Applications