Nativewind
The utility-first workflow you love from Tailwind CSS in your React Native applications.
Overview:
NativeWind is a development tool that utilizes Tailwind CSS as the high-level scripting language to establish a universal design system. By sharing styled components across all React Native platforms and employing the most suitable style engine for each platform, NativeWind aims to ensure consistent styling, enhance Developer UX, optimize component performance, and streamline code maintainability. This tool processes styles during the application build, using a minimal runtime to selectively apply reactive styles based on factors such as device orientation or light and dark mode changes.
Features:
- Works on all RN platforms: Compatible with all React Native platforms.
- Tailwind CSS compiler: Utilizes the Tailwind CSS compiler for styling.
- Styles computed at build time: Styles are processed during application build.
- Small runtime: Maintains fast performance for components.
- Babel plugin: Includes a Babel plugin for easy setup and improved intellisense support.
- Respects tailwind.config.js settings: Considers all configured settings including themes, custom values, and plugins.
- Supports dark mode, arbitrary classes, media queries: Allows for styling adaptations like dark mode, arbitrary classes, and media queries.
- Pseudo classes for compatible components: Enables styling for hover, focus, and active states on compatible components.
- Styling based on parent state: Automatically styles children based on parent pseudo classes.
- Children styles for simple layouts: Facilitates the creation of simple layouts based on parent classes.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- React Native
React Native is a framework for building mobile applications using React and JavaScript. It enables developers to write once and deploy to multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, and the web, while providing a native app-like experience to users.
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- Templates & Themes
A template or theme refers to a pre-designed layout or structure that provides a basic framework for building a specific type of application or website. It typically includes good design, placeholder content and functional features, allowing developers to customize and fill in the details according to their specific needs.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- Expo
An open-source platform for making universal native apps with React. Expo runs on Android, iOS, and the web.
- Postcss
PostCSS is a popular open-source tool that enables web developers to transform CSS styles with JavaScript plugins. It allows for efficient processing of CSS styles, from applying vendor prefixes to improving browser compatibility, ultimately resulting in cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.