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Headless, boneless, skinless and lifeless UI


It's Halloween month, let's talk about UI abstractions.

I won't be covering components with heads, bodies, skin and bones, like Chakra, ShadCN UI, Radix or MUI. The libraries often order CSS starting places or helper layouts and positioning, but the goal is to let you have full styling control. Like spirits, phantoms or ghosts that "know stuff" but can't actually manifest it in the real world, so are lifeless UI abstractions.

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