alt Hacker NewsShow HN: Rails UI
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I used this about a year ago when I went through a short Rails phase. I was a bit surprised not to see more Rails-specific UI libraries considering how batteries-included the rest of the framework is, and at the time I didn't really 'get' tailwind. I'm not in a Rails phase anymore, but nice work on the library!
It looks good, but I'll be honest, it's hard for me to consider $299/$799 if I can buy a beautiful theme off of somewhere like ThemeForest for $20 or $30 and toss it into an LLM to get the files parsed into components and templates.
Good to see work in non-AI world and for Rails!
I would make it clear in the landing page that the components are for demonstration purposes by adding a title like "For example" before them.
The above the fold looks a bit packed right now. I would leave the login box out until user presses top right as it's for retentive users only.
This is interesting to me as someone who worked with Rails a good deal back in the day and has interest in picking it back up.
Any chance of some themes that bring in a little dimension? Doesn't have to be early 2010s Bootstrap or anything but some subtle, crisp drop shadows and gentle gradients would be welcome.
Additionally, is unused Tailwind CSS shaken out or does it all come along for the ride?
If you’re showing off a UI framework, I shouldn’t be accidentally scrolling left and right on the page on mobile / my iPhone. Couldn’t be bothered to scroll down the page to look at components while accidentally activating horizontal scrolling.
Broken in Safari on iphone. For example:
- table background moves left when table is scrolled horizontally
- actions in table and dropdown do nothing on tap
- text on buttons is selectable (really?)
I think you missed a trick not naming it Railwind UI.
maybe I'm just dumb but a lot of these elements don't seem to work? the "..." buttons don't open any flyout, the dropdown doesn't open up...
otherwise looks cool though
i don't get these types of products anymore. i think they're useful in their own way, but i can literally create styles with claude/gemini in a heartbeat and not have to pay some insane fee.
I have hardware acceleration disabled in Firefox and my 5800X spins up trying to render the background wave. At least that's a known choice I made.
I wish I could use this – unfortunately UI frameworks are a political problem at every company I've worked at. The designers feel undermined or threatened by it, and product owners want to dictate design. Despite the massive productivity benefits of a UI framework, I've never been able to convince stakeholders to actually adopt one.
I'm generally in favor of "Show HN" posts that are products, but this post just seems like blatant advertising.
ugh this looks dated even by 2016 standards
when will developers learn UI actually matters
bootstrap was a mistake, and lowered the bar for everyone
im always surprised that Rails is still relevant
i havent used it since 2006 opting for php and django
i might give it another shot, any reason you like this more than django or other frameworks
This definitely does fill a gap that Rails has. I love using it but man I can't make a nice looking front end to save my life. We've used Tailwind UI a ton but thats kind of a foot gun because you end up slightly tweaking classes all over the place if you're not disciplined.