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You don’t have to if you define it globally.

Then you're just reimplementing CSS classes in Tailwind.

and so most people using tailwind don’t do that and redefine everything every time. Ignoring or ignorant of the elegance and power of css.

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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I wish Deno’s future and popularity was more known. I’d love to try my next side project in Deno, but I’ll probably stick to React/Next and maybe Rails.

I've made a project using their Fresh framework, it was actually quite a nice dev experience.

What did you build with it?

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Have you tried it on a real project? Tailwind is a huge time saver when compared to traditional CSS or SASS.

How on earth can styling every **damn hyperlink inline over and over again be a time saver?

I don’t think anyone is typing out every link at this point.

Html is split into components or views or partials. Links are inside loops etc.

You save time every time you don’t have to think about coming up with a new class name or how it might affect the hierarchy.

I totally understand it feels weird to begin with but on a major project you never worry that your css tweaks might affect some other obscure part of the site.

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Have you tried it on a real project? Tailwind is a huge time saver when compared to traditional CSS or SASS.

What I really think you're saying is that Tailwind is a huge time saver when it comes to design, and compared to your past experiences translating designs to CSS it felt like a net win. A lot of people disagree with Tailwind's design philosophy on both the developer and consumer side of the code (i.e. DX and UI), so it's questionable what "real project" and "time saver" really mean; ironically, I question that your d…

By real project I just meant something more substantial than a tiny hobby project. Maybe something that takes a few months or more.

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Is Ruby on Rails still widely used?

Yes, and there's plenty of hiring around it: https://www.rails.jobs. (disclaimer: I'm behind this)

Companies are regularly complaining it's getting harder to find senior+ Rails developers, which I think is a good problem to have.

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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It'd be nice if there was a way to try the demo without signing in. That said, this looks like a good product. Are there other similar/competing things for Rails, and are there other competing SaaS-in-a-box things for other frameworks?

https://github.com/smirnov-am/awesome-saas-boilerplates collects such frameworks, it lists 4 for Rails.

would be cool if someone evaluated all of them.

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Wow, hi everyone! Was just about to walk over for the first day of RailsConf when a friend let me know we were #1 here! Honored! I'm the original creator of Bullet Train, although a number of people now work on it. It's been a fun journey to this point! When I first started building Bullet Train, it was a relatively unique offering. There weren't that many full-featured "SaaS starter kits" out there, although there w…

Hi we are exploring BT today

I'm trying to move a company that is now selling simple wordpress websites (and doing actually pretty well, do to their super expertise with design/graphic and marketing) to a 'higher' step with RoR, and BT seems something that may help them a lot approaching Rails.

Can anybody suggests resources, links, advice on how to start this new adventure?

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