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daisyUI is the best Tailwind CSS component library for Astro projects

Best Astro component library

Astro

Astro has quickly become my go-to framework for content-focused websites due to its revolutionary approach to web performance.

What makes Astro stand out is its "ship less JavaScript" philosophy. It allows you to build sites using your favorite UI components from React, Vue, Svelte, and others, but then renders them to static HTML at build time whenever possible.

The framework's "Islands Architecture" is particularly brilliant. Instead of hydrating the entire page with JavaScript, Astro only sends JavaScript for the specific interactive components that need it. The rest stays as lightweight HTML and CSS.

This approach results in dramatically faster websites, better core web vitals scores, and improved user experience, especially on mobile devices or slower connections.

Astro + daisyUI

As someone who's built several production sites with Astro, I can confirm that daisyUI is an exceptional Tailwind CSS component library for Astro projects.

Here's why this combination works so well:

  • Performance synergy: daisyUI's zero-JavaScript approach perfectly complements Astro's mission to ship minimal JavaScript to browsers, resulting in lightning-fast websites.

  • Framework agnostic: Just like Astro lets you mix components from different frameworks, daisyUI provides consistent styling across all of them with simple class names.

  • Content-focused design: daisyUI's clean, minimal component designs align beautifully with Astro's content-first philosophy.

  • Flexible theming: The library's 35+ built-in themes and customization options through CSS variables integrate seamlessly with Astro's build process.

This powerful combination gives you the best of both worlds: beautiful, professionally designed UI components and the exceptional performance that Astro is known for.

daisyUI v5 is a *game changer*... It's never been this easy to customize components and theme in typical server rendered projects. 😍

iam_bpn
Developer

I've been *enjoying daisyui* since I discovered it very recently, great job!

Vincent Bergeron
Software Developer

daisyUI is so good! I love how it sticks with the basic HTML components. Truly great.

Nico Devs
Software Engineer

The new daisyUI 5.0 is awesome! The UI components are smooth and has a lot of new goodies.

Ovi Stoica
Software Developer

I used daisyUI theme generator's Halloween theme and tweaked it to what I want and now, I'm so proud of what I've got!

Ade
Software Engineer

DaisyUI just looks amazing.

Kelvin Htat
Solo founder

Install Tailwind CSS and daisyUI for Astro

Setting up daisyUI in your Astro project is refreshingly straightforward.

First, create your Astro project using the Astro CLI if you haven't already. Astro has excellent built-in support for Tailwind CSS, making the next steps easy.

Install Tailwind CSS following Astro's official documentation, then add daisyUI as a Tailwind plugin with just a few lines of configuration.

Once set up, you can immediately start using daisyUI's component classes in both your Astro templates and any framework components you may be using, creating beautiful interfaces with minimal effort.

For step-by-step installation instructions specifically for Astro projects, check out our detailed guide:How to install daisyUI with Astro.

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