This is Alpine.js implementation of Tailwind Headless UI. Built with Vimesh UI framework, Vimesh Headless UI has some nice features:
Vimesh Headless UI has much smaller code size
| Components | Vimesh Headless UI | Tailwind Headless UI for Vue | Tailwind Headless UI for React |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listbox | 8k | 34k | 30k |
| Combobox | 9k | 25k | 39k |
| Menu | 7k | 18k | 20k |
| Switch | 0.6k | 5k | 6k |
| Tabs | 4k | 12k | 16k |
| Dialog | 2k | 15k | 17k |
| Popover | 6k | 23k | 28k |
| Radio Group | 1k | 11k | 14k |
Comparing the production version of Vimesh and Tailwind headless dialog example page size, Vimesh is much smaller with more features and less bugs (check the menu display in the tailwind popup dialog).
- Vimesh (192k)
- Tailwind (425k)
Components are plain html files, which could be hosted anywhere, normally at CDN. They could be shared cross different projects without extra tree shaking magic. For example, the dialog basic example uses two components hui-dialog and hui-menu. Just load them asynchronously with x-import. Vimesh UI registers corresponding native custom elements and initialize them.
<template x-component:page="dialog-basic" x-import="hui:dialog,menu" x-data="setupDialogBasicData()"
class="overflow-y-auto">
...
<hui-dialog :open="isOpen" @close="setIsOpen(false)">
...
<hui-menu>
</hui-menu>
</hui-dialog>
...
</template>What you write is what you get. Organize components to html files under meaningful namespaces. You do not need webpack, rollup, vite etc.
Install development dependencies, including alpinejs, @vimesh/style, @vimesh/ui, universal-router and http-server.
yarn
Run static http server
yarn dev
Open the url http://127.0.0.1:8080/playground/dev.html
It shows an index page
There are many examples for different components with relative source code.
It uses development version of alpinejs and @vimesh/ui in the node_modules folder.
Please check playground/index.html, which use the latest alpinejs and @vimesh/ui at unpkg.com. In fact it is also what you would do if you use Vimesh Headless UI in your real projects.
<head>
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="./assets/favicon.ico">
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@vimesh/style"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@vimesh/ui"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/alpinejs" defer></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/universal-router/universal-router.min.js"></script>
<script>
const DEBUG = false
$vui.config.debug = DEBUG
$vui.config.importMap = {
"hui": '../components/${component}.html' + (DEBUG ? '?v=' + new Date().valueOf() : '?v=0.1'),
"app": './components/${path}${component}.html' + (DEBUG ? '?v=' + new Date().valueOf() : '?v=0.1'),
"page": './pages/${path}${component}.html' + (DEBUG ? '?v=' + new Date().valueOf() : '?v=0.1'),
}
</script>
...
</head>Yes, the online playground are 100% plain html hosted at unpkg.com. It is very old school style, right? Let's make frondend development back to what it should be.