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I've been working in CSS for over 20 years. I know it very well. Tailwind is also my absolute most favorite technology to come along in a long time. I would eve
by city41 3y ago
I've been working in CSS for over 20 years. I know it very well. Tailwind is also my absolute most favorite technology to come along in a long time. I would even argue to use it effectively you also need to understand CSS well. The smart steering analogy doesn't jive with me at all.
- isleyaardvark 3y agoIt seems like their analogy is based on one experience with Tailwind where the author was put under ridiculous constraints with Tailwind (constraints that even the author suggests is not typical Tailwind usage). The analogy didn't reflect my experience either.
- yowzadave 3y agoSame--Tailwind is granular enough that nearly anything that can be done in CSS, can be done with Tailwind (with the caveat that Tailwind encourages you to use standard dimensional increments, which is usually a good idea anyway). IMO, Tailwind is a coping strategy for people who have accepted that CSS is bad technology. The Cascade seemed like a good idea at the time, and made for some cool demos back in the "CSS Zen Garden" days, but in practice it is miserable to work with; it's even less suitable now that most websites are assembled from self-contained components. But it's what we have, and at least Tailwind makes it fast to build and modify things.
- andrei_says_ 3y agoIn my experience well organized cascade is amazingly efficient (ITCSS approach) and standardizing of spacing, colors and typographic scale is trivial.
- pupppet 3y agoI hate having to come up with class names, but I hate having to learn yet another layer of abstraction even more.