Practical write-ups from the team that builds the templates — architecture decisions, migration notes, and honest framework comparisons.
A working admin dashboard in Next.js 16 and Tailwind CSS v4 — App Router layouts, a CSS-first theme, an accessible sidebar, and the server/client split that keeps it fast.
Tailwind v4 moved configuration into CSS and dropped tailwind.config.js. Here is what breaks, what the @theme block replaces, and the order to migrate in.
The theme flash is a rendering-order problem, not a CSS one. Here is the blocking-script pattern that fixes it in a static Next.js app, with the full code.
Wire a Next.js app to LemonSqueezy end to end — hosted checkout, a signature-verified webhook, and the entitlement check that gates the download.
Both ship excellent dashboards. The decision comes down to where your data lives, whether you need SEO, and who deploys it — not to raw performance.
A fair comparison of two mature CSS frameworks for admin UIs — component coverage, customization ceiling, bundle size, and the team each one suits.
