## Frappe UI
Frappe UI provides a set of components and utilities for rapid UI development. Components are built using Vue 3 and Tailwind.
Along with generic components like Button, Link, Dialog, etc., it also contains utilities for handling server-side data fetching, directives and utilities.
### Motivation
In 2019, I began building [Frappe Books](https://github.com/frappe/books) which had a new design. This led to the creation of small reusable components like Button, Dialog, and Card. Moving on to [Frappe Cloud](https://github.com/frappe/press) in 2020, I reused and evolved these components in the Frappe Cloud UI. In 2022, while starting a new project, I decided to extract these components into a standalone package to avoid repeating the copy-paste process. This package is now being developed alongside the [Gameplan](https://github.com/frappe/gameplan), continually adding generic components and utilities for frontend development.
### Under the Hood
- [TailwindCSS](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss): Utility first CSS Framework to build design system based UI.
- [Headless UI](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/headlessui): Unstyled and accessible UI components.
- [TipTap](https://github.com/ueberdosis/tiptap): ProseMirror based rich-text editor with a Vue API.
- [dayjs](https://github.com/iamkun/dayjs): Minimal javascript library for working with dates.
## Links
- [Documentation](https://ui.frappe.io)
- [Vite Plugins](vite/README.md)
- [Frappe UI Starter Boilerplate](https://github.com/netchampfaris/frappe-ui-starter)
- [Community](https://github.com/frappe/frappe-ui/discussions)
## Usage
```sh
npm install frappe-ui
# or
yarn add frappe-ui
```
Now, import the FrappeUI plugin and components in your Vue app's `main.js`:
```js
import { createApp } from 'vue'
import { FrappeUI } from 'frappe-ui'
import App from './App.vue'
import './index.css'
let app = createApp(App)
app.use(FrappeUI)
app.mount('#app')
```
In your `tailwind.config.js` file, include the frappe-ui preset:
```js
module.exports = {
presets: [
require('frappe-ui/src/utils/tailwind.config')
],
...
}
```
Now, you can import needed components and start using it:
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