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Re: Konsta UI – Mobile UI Components Built with TailwindCSS

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Post by satvikpendem »

antihero wrote: post #59
satvikpendem wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using it wrong on every codebase that wasn't even made by me but instead by my employers? If it's happening that many times, the tool is to blame. More likely that the people who use it and like it (for now) have never have to handle large amounts of components and refactoring them. It's basically impossible. Trends come and go, who's to say that in a few years we decide, like jQuery, that hey, maybe this utility fir…

The idea of approaches changing and becoming obsolete and having to be changed is a natural part of software. Shouldn’t stop innovation. TW works well for many experienced people who are very happy with it.

If it's real innovation, like jQuery imperatoveness to React et Al's declarativeness, sure I'd agree with you. But Tailwind is simply not innovation, it's at best repackaging normal CSS properties that when composed together act just like...regular CSS classes. So there's literally no point in using them.

For example: https://twitter.com/stolinski/status/1613699772111638530

Re: Konsta UI – Mobile UI Components Built with TailwindCSS

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Post by meerita »

While these projects may add additional complexity and potentially detract from the simplicity of functional CSS, they can still be a valuable option in comparison to traditional CSS architectural paradigms like BEM: http://minid.net/2019/08/12/in-defense-of-functional-css/

Re: Konsta UI – Mobile UI Components Built with TailwindCSS

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

mulhoon wrote: post #31

These kind of libraries are always easy to spot in the wild because of their transitions on things like modals and action sheets don’t match native. They’re just not as smooth.

And that's fine; it's a compromise sacrificing native look & feel and performance for cross-platform development and being able to assign web developers to mobile projects.

I mean personally I think any developer worth their salt should be able to learn native development, and any company that wants to make a good app should hire and invest in native developers / development. But that's a hard sell these days.

Re: Konsta UI – Mobile UI Components Built with TailwindCSS

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Post by mort96 »

satvikpendem wrote: post #43
techpression wrote: post #42

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Then every conceivable tool is to blame, especially within computer science, they’re all definitely used wrong more often than not.

Correct.

Wait are you now just conceding that your criticism of Tailwind has no merit and could be replaced by a generic "All software is bad" meme?

Re: Konsta UI – Mobile UI Components Built with TailwindCSS

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

cobertos wrote: post #8

Anyone notice all the gambling sponsors? Looks like they're fed from OpenCollective (see BACKERS.md in the github repo). Feels like they're trying to get backlinks as their URLs end up as anchor tags on the site Such a weird ecosystem the sponsorships have created. I see a lot of other sites with irrelevant sponsors and non-trivial amounts of money, there just for the SEO/ranking

It's the same with having advertisers on your website I guess, you don't actually know what is shown on your webpage, just that you earn money to turn a blind eye.

Re: Konsta UI – Mobile UI Components Built with TailwindCSS

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Post by mort96 »

satvikpendem wrote: post #51
antihero wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah because you’ve jumped in on the attack on a post about something built with a tool that clearly gives a lot of people joy, in order to hawk your own thing. Getting whiny about people defending their own thing in response is kind of disingenuous. People got tired of vue people continuously doing the same thing about anything vaguely related to react, too.

No, what I'm actually getting tired of is people getting on the hip new proprietary but trendy JS/CSS thing like Tailwind and leaving other devs to clean it up in a few years.

Tailwind is under the MIT license. In what sense is it proprietary?

Re: Konsta UI – Mobile UI Components Built with TailwindCSS

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Post by satvikpendem »

mort96 wrote: post #65
satvikpendem wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct.

Wait are you now just conceding that your criticism of Tailwind has no merit and could be replaced by a generic "All software is bad" meme?

I am parodying the parent's broad over generalization of tools. Yes, by their logic, they would concede that all software is bad. That doesn't mean some tools aren't better or worse than others. Just because hammers have flaws doesn't mean I'd use a hammer to screw in a nail, even if some do.
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