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Hi!

I am the author of Tailwind Builder. I launched it today!

It's the first genuinely advanced online editor for the Tailwind CSS framework.

I based it on the same technology I used to start https://bootstrapshuffle.com and https://bulma.dev

Features:

* 140 ready-to-use HTML components (drag & drop).

* All Tailwind settings are available with convenient pickers.

* Autocomplete for CSS classes.

* Live edit & online preview.

* You can export code to HTML and CSS (compiled version) and Pug and Tailwind config (sources).

* Easy build ("npm run build")

Any feedback is welcome!

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From all the tools I've seen, yours is really nice. It respects both the framework and the developer by not adding crappy custom CSS, using the framework as the official documentation mandates and prioritizes a sane workflow. Congrats!

Do you have any roadmap when it comes to more content? I think that's what is king with those tools. I use them because I don't want to hand-design markup for yet another pricing table or any other generic startup design component I need. I like being able to drag and drop them around, and then just go back to my backend code and make that shit work.

I would love to have a more extensive gallery, specially when it comes to items: search results, filtering, sorting, grid view, list view, swipers, etc.

Hi! We don't have a public road map with content updates, but I think about creating one (you are not the first person who asks about it).

We try to balance between editor updates and content creation. Of course, with more resources, there are more possibilities ;)

How do you plan to compete with https://www.tailwindui.com/ or do you see it working alongside?

I believe in content. An editor is just a tool.

A month ago, I offered Adam to use my editor (he is the author of TailwindCSS/UI).

As I understand, he creates static UI components that you can copy & paste to your project. My editor can be a nice feature for that library.

See this tweet: https://twitter.com/kemyd/status/1177659753251651584

I think that a lot of such builders can co-exist, and the content will be the differentiator.

If you want to know more about my philosophy, please visit https://shuffle.dev

How is there a competition when the link you provided is a landing page with an input box to "sign up [...] to find out when it's ready"?

It's going to be a component library by the author of Tailwind, Adam Wathan. I guess my comment needed some context.

Thanks, I did not know that!

>https://bulma.dev

I've been looking for a bulma drag and drog builder for years

I'm going to test it out asap

Same. Well, I've been looking for a replacement rapid UI prototyping tool since I have recently moved away from bootstrap and adopted Bulma. This looks very, very promising!

I'd really like to see something like this for the material-ui UI framework. https://material-ui.com/

So happy to learn of Bulma.dev!!!

One thing I would really, really love is more Components found in enterprise SaaS ui. Stuff that you find in any reasonable component library I appreciate it might be hard to do with just static markup, but sometimes when using rapid prototyping tools I want to get back markup I can edit and then it becomes a real project other times I just want to test a lot of different layout ideas and see how they look on the page without wiring up a lot of components first because I can do it at the end when I've settled on the layout.

The other thing that would be quite magical is ability to add your own custom snippets into your library. That'd be just perfect.

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