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The title of the blog post mentions Tailwind Plus so I’m assuming it’s a paid feature. The ambiguity is probably intentional.

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It's not very expensive, all things considered. $299 for a single-user perpetual license (includes all future updates too) or about $1k for a team license[1].

If it saves you a bunch of time writing and maintaining the sort of components they are showing off, probably worth it?

[1] https://tailwindcss.com/plus#pricing

Listen, I’m not against the Tailwind team getting their bag – they worked hard and created an amazing open source library. I just don’t think it’s in the interest of either users or maintainers to put vanilla JavaScript support behind a paywall.

Edit: apparently all framework integrations and the whole library and functionality is behind the same paywall? And regular tailwind is just the css classes/build process that I used to know? Do people not understand how casual readers might be confused about all this?

The entire component library is behind a paywall...are you saying they should be giving away the vanilla JS version?

You can use vanilla tailwind with vanilla JavaScript

ChatGPT can just steal it for me!

Yeah I strongly emphasise with them getting their money - the only problem with headless components being behind a paid license is that you cannot build a design system on top of them and open source it.

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