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daisyUI

Tailwind plugin that adds semantic component class names (btn, card, modal).

Official site
Monthly cost
Free
Popularity
3/5
LLM knowledge
3/5
Difficulty
Easy
bundle: ~6kb css
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What daisyUI is good at

Strengths
  • +Tailwind on easy mode
  • +Theming via CSS variables
  • +30+ prebuilt components
Tradeoffs
  • Opinionated look
  • Not framework-owned like shadcn

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You're working with daisyUI. Tailwind plugin that adds semantic component class names (btn, card, modal).

Best practices:
- Lean on: tailwind on easy mode
- Lean on: theming via css variables
- Lean on: 30+ prebuilt components

Things to watch for:
- Watch out for: opinionated look
- Watch out for: not framework-owned like shadcn

General guidance:
- Canonical docs: https://daisyui.com — check here before inventing APIs.
- Keep secrets in environment variables, never commit them.
- Write TypeScript where the ecosystem supports it; add types to every exported function.
- Add tests for the critical paths before declaring the task done.
- Read-the-docs is usually faster than guessing — cite the docs page in code comments when you apply a non-obvious pattern.

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