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Real-World Next.js

You're reading from   Real-World Next.js Build scalable, high-performance, and modern web applications using Next.js, the React framework for production

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801073493
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michele Riva Michele Riva
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Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to Next.js
2. Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction to Next.js FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Exploring Different Rendering Strategies 4. Chapter 3: Next.js Basics and Built-In Components 5. Part 2: Hands-On Next.js
6. Chapter 4: Organizing the Code Base and Fetching Data in Next.js 7. Chapter 5: Managing Local and Global States in Next.js 8. Chapter 6: CSS and Built-In Styling Methods 9. Chapter 7: Using UI Frameworks 10. Chapter 8: Using a Custom Server 11. Chapter 9: Testing Next.js 12. Chapter 10: Working with SEO and Managing Performance 13. Chapter 11: Different Deployment Platforms 14. Part 3: Next.js by Example
15. Chapter 12: Managing Authentication and User Sessions 16. Chapter 13: Building an E-Commerce Website with Next.js and GraphCMS 17. Chapter 14: Example Projects and Next Steps for Learning More 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Integrating Headless UI

As we saw in the previous section, TailwindCSS only provides CSS classes to be used inside any web component.

If we want to implement something dynamic, such as a modal, a switch button, and so on, we need to write some JavaScript logic on our own.

Headless UI solves this problem by providing the opposite of TailwindCSS: dynamic components without any CSS class or style. That way, we're free to use TailwindCSS or any other CSS framework to style pre-built components in a straightforward way.

Headless UI is a free and open source project created by the Tailwind Labs team (the same organization behind TailwindCSS), and if you're interested, you can browse the source code at the following URL: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/headlessui.

Integrating Headless UI and TailwindCSS is not very different from integrating TailwindCSS alone. We can set up a new project and install all the TailwindCSS dependencies just like we did in the previous section...

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