The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button(paulmakeswebsites.com)
7 pointsby todsacerdoti8 hours ago1 comment
  • css_apologist6 hours ago
    on Shadcn's codegen

    I think this is necessary since we need to regularly modify components to suit our needs.. (I've dreamt of extending this kind of approach to libraries for a long time)

    HOWEVER

    there has been an elegant solution to this problem for 30 years - CSS

    CSS tooling lags behind, but from a technical perspective CSS is superior to this component library approach in almost every way

    • paulhebert2 hours ago
      Author here. I agree that the having the code editable in my repo is nice!

      But the fact that it just wraps another dependency (Radix) kind of defeats the purpose for me.

      100% agreed on CSS being the right approach here! I’ve been using CSS hacks to style radio buttons for ages before we had good CSS support and never even considered recreating it in JS