UI library

Great — when building with Astro, your choice of UI libraries changes a bit because Astro is HTML-first, and interactivity must be brought in with frameworks (Svelte, React, Vue…) using islands.

Here is the best way to combine daisyUI + SvelteUI inside an Astro project 👇

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🌟 Using daisyUI + SvelteUI in Astro — Is it possible?

Yes — and actually it’s one of the best combos.

✔ Astro handles daisyUI natively

Because daisyUI is just a Tailwind plugin, it works perfectly with Astro without any islands or hydration.

✔ Astro handles SvelteUI through Svelte components

You can use:

<SvelteComponent client:load />

or client:idle, client:visible, etc.

So daisyUI builds your design system (global CSS), while SvelteUI handles interactive widgets where needed.

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🔥 Recommended Architecture

✅ 1. Base UI → Tailwind + daisyUI

Use daisyUI for:

• layout
• buttons
• forms
• themes
• cards
• navbar
• hero sections
• responsive utilities

Astro + Tailwind + daisyUI is very light and extremely fast.

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✅ 2. Islands for dynamic components → Svelte + SvelteUI

Put SvelteUI only on components that need interactivity:

• Modal
• Toaster / notifications
• Select dropdown
• Date picker
• Carousel
• Complex forms

Example:

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import Modal from '../components/Modal.svelte';
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<Modal client:idle />

This keeps your site:

• fast
• lightweight
• interactive only where needed

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⚠️ Things to keep in mind

1️⃣ Design consistency

daisyUI has strong theme colors. SvelteUI uses tokens like --svelteui-primary, etc.

To unify them, you can override SvelteUI variables with daisyUI values.

Example (global.css):

:root {
  --svelteui-primary: var(--p);
  --svelteui-text: var(--bc);
}

Now both match visually.

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2️⃣ Don’t hydrate the whole page

Only hydrate the Svelte components that require JS. This is the Astro advantage.

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3️⃣ If you need a full UI system

A more integrated solution for Astro is:

🔥 Skeleton UI (Tailwind components + Svelte components)

https://www.skeleton.dev Works better than mixing daisyUI + SvelteUI if you want a unified setup.

But mixing is still totally fine.

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🎯 Final Recommendation (For Your Astro Project)

⭐ Best combo (flexible, easy, fast):

➡ Astro + Tailwind + daisyUI for styling ➡ Svelte + SvelteUI only for interactive components ➡ Hydrate Svelte on islands (client:idle or client:visible)

This is what most advanced Astro developers use today.

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✅ a step-by-step config guide

Here is a clear, step-by-step guide to install and use Astro + Tailwind + daisyUI + Svelte + SvelteUI in the same project — the clean and recommended setup.

Everything below is copy-paste ready.

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✅ STEP 1 — Create an Astro project

If you don’t already have one:

npm create astro@latest my-app
cd my-app
npm install

Choose the Svelte renderer when asked. (If you didn’t choose it, don’t worry — Step 4 will install it.)

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✅ STEP 2 — Install Tailwind CSS

Astro provides an official integration:

npx astro add tailwind

This adds:

• tailwind.config.mjs
• postcss.config.cjs
• and updates astro.config.mjs

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✅ STEP 3 — Install daisyUI

npm install daisyui

Then inside tailwind.config.mjs:

import daisyui from 'daisyui';

/** @type {import('tailwindcss').Config} */
export default {
  content: [
    "./src/**/*.{astro,html,js,jsx,ts,tsx,svelte,vue}",
  ],
  theme: {
    extend: {},
  },
  plugins: [daisyui],
  daisyui: {
    themes: ["light", "dark"], // optional
  },
};

daisyUI is now ready globally.

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✅ STEP 4 — Add Svelte support to Astro

If you didn’t enable Svelte during creation:

npx astro add svelte

This installs:

• @astrojs/svelte
• required Vite config

Now you can use .svelte components inside .astro.

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✅ STEP 5 — Install SvelteUI

npm install @svelteuidev/core @svelteuidev/composables

Then create a global SvelteUI theme provider:

Create file: src/components/SvelteUIProvider.svelte

<script>
  import { SvelteUIProvider } from '@svelteuidev/core';
</script>

<SvelteUIProvider>
  <slot />
</SvelteUIProvider>

You will wrap your interactive components with it when needed.

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✅ STEP 6 — Use both libraries in an Astro page

Example Astro page: src/pages/index.astro

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import TestDaisy from '../components/TestDaisy.astro';
import TestSvelte from '../components/TestSvelte.svelte';
import SvelteUIProvider from '../components/SvelteUIProvider.svelte';
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<html>
  <body class="p-10">
    <h1 class="text-3xl font-bold text-primary">Astro + daisyUI + SvelteUI</h1>

    <!-- daisyUI component -->
    <TestDaisy />

    <!-- Svelte component (hydrated on demand) -->
    <SvelteUIProvider>
      <TestSvelte client:load />
    </SvelteUIProvider>
  </body>
</html>

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✅ STEP 7 — Create daisyUI component

src/components/TestDaisy.astro

<button class="btn btn-primary">
  DaisyUI Button
</button>

This is pure HTML + CSS classes — no JS needed.

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✅ STEP 8 — Create a SvelteUI component

src/components/TestSvelte.svelte

<script>
  import { Button } from '@svelteuidev/core';
</script>

<Button>
  SvelteUI Button
</Button>

Because it needs interactivity, we hydrate it in the .astro file.

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🎉 DONE!

You now have:

⭐ Astro

⭐ Tailwind

⭐ daisyUI (global styles/components)

⭐ Svelte islands

⭐ SvelteUI interactive components

All fully compatible.

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🧪 Optional Improvements

If you want, I can give you:

✅ a folder structure ✅ a starter GitHub template ✅ a daisyUI + SvelteUI matching theme (so both libraries share colors) ✅ a ready-to-copy layout system

Just tell me!