Compare Meraki UI with daisyUI
daisyUI adds components to Tailwind CSS with a philosophy centered on CSS. This contrasts with Meraki UI, which often integrates more deeply with JavaScript frameworks.
Meraki UI is an open-source collection of Tailwind CSS components and templates. It offers a range of pre-designed UI elements and layouts that can be used to quickly build web interfaces.
daisyUI is a component library for Tailwind CSS that provides pre-designed components with theming capabilities. It is framework-agnostic, meaning it can be used in any web project, and it doesn't ship any JavaScript to the browser.
Developers often use stars to bookmark projects. More developers have chosen to star daisyUI over Meraki UI on GitHub. Meraki UI offers a good selection of components. daisyUI offers a wider selection compared to Meraki UI. daisyUI runs as a self-contained plugin for Tailwind CSS
daisyUI has 61 components, 57 of them are unique – for example pagination and button group are considered as same.
In GitHub's top 400 repositories of all time
Meraki UI offers a good selection of components. daisyUI offers a wider selection compared to Meraki UI.
daisyUI has 61 components, 57 of them are unique – for example pagination and button group are considered as same.
daisyUI's architecture is built around runtime theming using CSS variables. Meraki UI usually relies on build-time theme generation.
daisyUI has 35 themes
Developers often use stars to bookmark projects. More developers have chosen to star daisyUI over Meraki UI on GitHub. Many projects rely on daisyUI, as shown by its substantial download numbers
In GitHub's top 400 repositories of all time
Avoid Meraki UI if you require a component library with extensive customization options or highly specific designs. Also, if you prefer a component library with built-in theming capabilities, Meraki UI might not be the best choice.
Use daisyUI when you want to rapidly prototype or build a project with a consistent design system based on Tailwind CSS. It's well-suited for projects where you need a large variety of customizable components and theme options without writing a lot of custom CSS.
1. Install daisyUI as a Node package:
npm i -D daisyui@latest
pnpm add -D daisyui@latest
yarn add -D daisyui@latest
bun add -D daisyui@latest
deno i -D npm:daisyui@latest
2. Add daisyUI to app.css:
@import "tailwindcss";
@plugin "daisyui";
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