daisyUI: Tailwind CSS components for reducing markup
Blog post from LogRocket
Many developers face challenges with Tailwind CSS due to its verbose markup as applications grow, but daisyUI offers a solution as a customizable component library that enhances Tailwind's capabilities without sacrificing markup readability. daisyUI uses pure CSS and Tailwind utility classes, allowing developers to maintain clean HTML while creating themes and customizing user interfaces. The article illustrates this by guiding readers through building an image gallery in React using daisyUI, showcasing how to configure a new React app, set up Tailwind CSS, and utilize components like Intro, Navbar, and Photo to fetch and display images from the Unsplash API. The tutorial emphasizes organizing photos by categories, employing React's useState and useEffect Hooks, and handling API requests with Axios to demonstrate Tailwind's styling performance and daisyUI's enhancements. Through this approach, developers can maintain code readability and scalability without compromising on design flexibility.