What is Tailwind?

Tailwind is a free, open-source utilities-first CSS framework. It was featured in dozens of projects by developers who use different frameworks as Vue, React, Angular, Blaze, Meteor, Svelte, and others.

As its popularity is growing, developers start building their own custom libraries on top of Tailwind.

But wait,

Why should you consider using Tailwind?

  1. Utilities-first CSS framework
  2. Easy to learn
  3. Flex box support
  4. Grid style support
  5. Multi-column layout
  6. Rich user-friendly documentation
  7. Simple configuration
  8. Easy to customize
  9. Faster CSS Styling Process
  10. Modern aspect ratio API
  11. Built-in Dark mode support
  12. Supports RTL and LTR out-of-box with modifiers
  13. Comes with rich customized color library sets

However, another great feature for Tailwind is its community-based extensions and libraries are increasing by the day.

So, in this article, we will list the best of these libraries as a resource for developers

Open-source Tailwind component libraries

1- Daisy

Daisy UI is an open-source, component-rich Tailwind library. It works smoothly with Vue, React, Meteor, Angular. Furthermore, it is comes with 29 themes which are easily configured through the Tailwind configuration file.

2- HyperUI

HyperUI is a collection of free Tailwind CSS components that can be used in your next project. With a range of components, you can build your next marketing website, admin dashboard, ecommerce store and much more.


3- Flowbite

Flowbite offers a 400+ components and interactive ready-to-use UI elements which are compatible with the Tailwind framework.

4- Myna UI

Myna UI is a free, open-source UI-based components and templates.  It is fully responsive and accessible.

5- Kutty

Kutty is a tailwind plugin for building web applications. It has a set of accessible and reusable components that are commonly used in web applications.

6- Sail UI

If you are building a simple web app that does not require complicated components, then the Sail UI is for you. Sail UI is a totally free and open-source released under the MIT license.

7- CreativeTim Tailwind Straterkit  

CreativeTim team offers dozens of free, and commercial themes, libraries and starter kits that aid developers in building beautiful web apps.

The Tailwind starter kit offers a fancy read-to-use CSS components, a JavaScript components for React, Vue, and Angular, sample pages and rich documentation.

8- gust UI (React)

The gust UI offers a rich reusable react components which built on top of Tailwind.  It comes with 50+ components and 4+ example pages.

9- Mamba UI

Mamba UI is a free, open-source collection of UI components and templates based on Tailwind CSS. It is compatible with Angular, Vue, React, Svelte, and pure HTML5.

10- LaLoka Layouts

If you are looking to build a responsive layout then you may consider LaLoka. It offers customized and ready layout containers.

11- Fancy Tailwind

Fancy Tailwind offers a beautiful, responsive, reusable, free (open-source) and premium React/JavaScript Tailwind CSS UI components designed with love and inspired by the most creative people on the web.


12- TailGrids

TailGrids is a ready to use Tailwind CSS UI Components, Blocks, Sections, and Templates. Choose from 400+ diverse UI components, copy-paste UI components code, and build your unique web app user-interface, landing page, website, or template faster.


13- Supabase

Supabase is an open-source Google Firebase alternative, which is developed and maintained by a strong team. Its developers released  their own custom Tailwind-based UI which also uses the Feather icons library.

14- Headless UI  

Headless UI comes with completely un-styled, fully accessible UI components for React, and Vue. It is designed to integrate beautifully with Tailwind CSS.


15- a17t

a17t is a Tailwind CSS plugin that provides atomic components like fields, buttons, and cards in a neutral design language that scales with your project.

Final thought

Tailwind is an amazing UI framework that can be used for enterprise, open-source,  commercial, or even personal projects. Tailwind component libraries speed up the production and improve the over-all look and usability of your project.

We included the best open-source components library that we can find, if you know of any other one that we didn't mention, kindly let us know.