Tailsee stands for TailwindCSS + Headless.
Tailsee is a developer-first, design-first, animation-first, and multi-theme collection of React and TailwindCSS code.
It is a commercial product created by a group of designers, offering stunning, multi-themed, and cohesive UI solutions. Tailsee is designed to provide millions of developers worldwide with consistent and visually appealing UI design capabilities, helping them build and launch projects faster.
It is not an NPM package, not a JavaScript library or a TailwindCSS UI library, and not an MIT-licensed collection of excellent code hosted on GitHub.
We use a modern tech stack that includes React, Tailwind CSS, and Framer Motion, as well as the most mature and trusted Headless component libraries in the community, such as Radix Primitives, Headless UI, and React Hook Form, ensuring stability, maintainability, and high performance for the components.
Tailsee abstracts commonly used components and blocks and offers thousands of implementations across different themes. For common scenarios, we also provide templates, such as for documentation pages or landing pages.
We are a design-first, multi-theme product, meaning all our components, blocks, and templates come with multiple themes. In most cases, the differences between themes are noticeable, and components within the same theme can be seamlessly swapped.
We do not use popular icon libraries, even though they are excellent. To achieve pixel-perfect matches, we develop our own icon libraries for each of our themes, ensuring the best fit for each one.
From the beginning, Tailsee has focused on building multi-theme or multi-style solutions. All our components, blocks, and templates are multi-themed. This helps meet various user needs, improves design efficiency, enhances brand consistency, and adapts to different use cases and environments, improving the overall user experience.
For the same functional components or blocks, themes can range from minimalistic to luxurious, playful to elegant. Each theme has unique color schemes, font choices, layout designs, and animations, allowing users to choose the theme that best suits their project and brand.
Components within a theme maintain a consistent design style. For example, an e-commerce site might need a simple, efficient theme to enhance the shopping experience, while a social network platform may prefer a lively and fun theme to engage users. Developers can freely and seamlessly choose the code snippets that fit their needs within the same theme.
Modern websites require smooth and expressive animations. In web design, animations offer several benefits:
They help users better understand changes in the interface, such as loading, page transitions, or displaying new content; They guide users’ attention and navigation paths, such as form hints, swipe navigation, and progressively revealed content; They give the brand a unique style and character, such as animations reflecting the brand’s energy or calmness; They make the website more lively and engaging, encouraging users to stay longer and interact with the content; Proper loading animations during network delays or slow data loading can alleviate user anxiety; Complex information or interaction steps can be made clearer and easier to understand through animations. Additionally, micro-interactions provide instant feedback to users, such as button click effects or form submission hints, making the experience smoother and more intuitive.
We use Framer Motion as the core library driving animations.
We are strong advocates of the Headless component concept. The many excellent, well-tested Headless component libraries in the community provide a robust foundation.
We want to give users full control, allowing for more open and rich customization features. With no black-box encapsulation, what you see is what you get, giving users the ability to modify every pixel of the presentation.
To maintain flexibility and simplicity, we do not offer pre-packaged components like Shadcn, but you can choose to adopt such a format yourself for many components. For example, encapsulating a “favorite” button with a complex animation sequence and spark effects into a Shadcn-like form may not be necessary.
We love using headless component libraries and TailwindCSS because they offer complete control along with robust functionality, accessibility, and more.
Tailsee is built around the real needs of developers, abstracting numerous components and blocks while providing implementations for common use cases.
We almost never use CSS animations Except for a few simple scenarios, we implement all animations using Framer Motion to ensure code consistency and readability.
Minimal use of before and after pseudo-elements For Tailwind CSS users, converting many before and after scenarios from CSS can reduce readability. Although not using pseudo-elements might increase DOM elements slightly, with appropriate comments and well-structured code, we provide code snippets that offer better readability and customizability.
We aim to reduce the complexity and tricks so that even developers with little experience can quickly achieve beautiful designs and smooth animations.
For most users, RTL (right-to-left) mode is not needed. Including RTL code might lower the experience for developers familiar with traditional CSS. For countries and regions that require RTL, we believe users already have the capability to migrate their code, and converting to RTL mode should not be a significant challenge.
When copying an interesting snippet into your own editor, encountering variables like bg-primary or bg-warning can lead to confusion, especially if they don’t match the visual effect seen on the website, or they conflict with already defined styles or frameworks in your project. To avoid this poor user experience, we generally avoid using such variables in most code. When we do use them, we provide clear comments explaining all non-native Tailwind CSS styles. Modern text editors allow you to search and replace these variables easily, or you can add a prefix for better compatibility.
Our code includes abundant and detailed comments, providing explanations for critical or potentially confusing sections. Whether you’re an experienced developer or a beginner, you’ll be able to easily understand the function and intention of the code.
We focus on clear, well-structured code, ensuring that users can quickly grasp the overall architecture and easily find the parts they care about.
We design our product with invasiveness in mind, ensuring it won’t disrupt your existing project. We prefer using native capabilities of the libraries rather than relying on external plugins or features. For example, we use MDX and Tailwind CSS Typography for content-related components or templates, avoiding extra plugins like Remark or Rehype unless absolutely necessary.
Versioning by Major Releases We archive code based on major versions of dependencies, allowing you to maintain old code when necessary.
We use the most popular and battle-tested foundational libraries from the community as our driving force, such as React, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, Next.js, Radix Primitives, Headless UI, React Hook Form, and more.
These libraries and frameworks have been widely adopted and have received extensive community feedback, offering high stability and reliability. They've been used by countless developers and companies in real-world projects, ensuring stable performance across different environments and reducing potential issues in production.
These popular libraries and frameworks have large developer communities that release updates regularly, fixing bugs and introducing new features. They embody industry best practices—for example, React Hook Form provides an efficient, easy-to-use solution for form management, reducing development complexity. This allows developers to follow modern development standards and write code that is more maintainable and scalable. You won’t need to worry about the technology becoming obsolete or abandoned, as you’ll benefit from continuous improvements.
We stay updated with the latest versions of these libraries, while archiving older versions to ensure you can maintain legacy code if needed.
All components, blocks, and templates are designed with responsive layouts in mind, ensuring optimal visual experiences across different screen sizes.
Nearly all components support both light and dark modes. A few components, like those with heavy edge blurs and gradients, may not perform as well in light mode, such as the gradient background button shown below.