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Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

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Re: Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

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> This is what CSS classes were made for. That brings with it the problem of naming a thousand things in a consistent way that everyone on your team needs to understand and remember, otherwise you end up with tons of duplicated classes, parallel systems, and bike shedding. Have we, as an industry, not felt this pain often enough yet? Do we really need to keep banging our head against the wall to figure out it does hu…

> That brings with it the problem of naming a thousand things in a consistent way that everyone on your team needs to understand and remember, otherwise you end up with tons of duplicated classes, parallel systems, and bike shedding. Have we, as an industry, not felt this pain often enough yet? Do we really need to keep banging our head against the wall to figure out it does hurt? Of course. It's obviously better to…

Those 10,000 names are already written, though.

Tailwind doesn't solve technical problems really, it solves social ones. In a perfect world we all write vanilla CSS. But, in my experience, it becomes extremely messy and hard to reason about in huge codebases with lots of developers. Which sucks but isn't surprising to me.

Re: Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

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Who are you talking to?

To? The website at large, we’re in public brother. About? The throwaway account I replied to and his straw man.

But it isn't a strawman. It summarizes the argument or, rather, the lack of argument, pretty nicely. Why is it a bad DSL? Why is it relevant that it was invented before the internet before the internet was widely used? These are just assertions without foundation. I think it's a lot more than "webshits" who didn't understand why it's bad.

Re: Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

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have you ever built a complex web app? with you're snarky reply my assumption is no any experienced developer without a condescending attitude can recognize all types of programming require skill and nuance to build good software, no matter the target

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