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TailwindCSS v2.0

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Re: TailwindCSS v2.0

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Post by whalesalad »

I've been writing CSS since the beginning of the web2.0 days and so it was really hard for me to adjust to the Tailwind approach. It's by no means perfect, but after working almost exclusively with it (and Tailwind UI) I am a big believer. I find myself wanting all the utilities almost immediately as soon as I am back on any other project/codebase.

Re: TailwindCSS v2.0

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Post by Wolfr_ »

Their marketing is good, they do a primo job at conveying the message in a nice looking way, but the end result is still HTML littered with hundreds classes, that gets hard to maintain and impossible to refactor.

Re: TailwindCSS v2.0

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Post by kevmo314 »

Wolfr_ wrote: post #4

Their marketing is good, they do a primo job at conveying the message in a nice looking way, but the end result is still HTML littered with hundreds classes, that gets hard to maintain and impossible to refactor.

I'm a big fan of Tailwind because I've realized that HTML isn't really maintained and refactored anyways: it's either composed or rewritten. Rarely do refactors happen in the same way as most programming languages.

Re: TailwindCSS v2.0

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Post by systemvoltage »

I've gone through the following phases:

1. Write old school circa 2008 CSS.

2. Oh shit, it's a real pain in the ass to do layout and make a responsive grid. Let me use a framework. Sweet!

3. Hmm.. its kinda painful to write css selectors all day long. They're reusable but I am having to get out of comfy JS IDE setup to go change some CSS properties in a different file.

4. Tailwind arrives. OMG. This is awesome! Never have to leave the context. Just stack properties as you like and compose your components!

5. HTML looks completely unreadable. It's a goddamn mess.

6. I want to go back to 2005. No frameworks. Just write non-responsive CSS, one for each screen (yeah, you read that right. I don't want to compromise the layout for responsiveness. I'd rather handcraft one for each device size give or take a few pixels). Custom crafted like a piece of fine art. CSS grid/layout is a lot better with css grid and flexbox. Things have improves since the 960-grid days. No frameworks at all and its fucking liberating.

Edit: I currently use reset/reboot css to clean up default rendering + sass (only use variables + mixins). I am happy like a daisy.

Re: TailwindCSS v2.0

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Post by markdown »

aarondf wrote: post #2

Geeze, this homepage is truly world-class. Props to the Tailwind team!

What homepage? This website makes one of those noob mistakes that many off-domain blogs do, in that their logo doesn't link to tailwindui.com.

I wonder why they used a blog off-domain in the first place. blog.foo.com is so 2005. foo.com/blog makes more sense.

Re: TailwindCSS v2.0

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Post by CapriciousCptl »

> Incompatibility with IE11, so you can tell the man upstairs "sorry boss it's out of my hands, blame Tailwind"

For those who don't know, IE11 is the last major release of IE. Between a major frontend framework feeling confident dropping IE, and Apple dropping Intel it kind of feels like the end of an era.

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