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> Extra wide 2XL breakpoint, for designing at 1536px and above Is it still common for folks to use pixels in their CSS? I moved to em and the rest around 1999 (I think). What is the reason to stick to pixels?
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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…
What kind of projects do people use Tailwind for? and what's the general role of the person using it? I haven't found a use for it myself as a predominantly front-end dev but I've met a few devs who like it a lot but found that they were generally less comfortable writing plain css without a framework. No shade towards Tailwind intended, just not a paradigm I've gotten on board with yet and trying to understand.
Tailwind simplifies them and make those things more readable as well as visible. Combine that with postcss, you get ton of functionality via plugins.
You can use tailwind in any project. The end result is pretty minimal after purging unlike bootstrap or traditional CSS frameworks. Think of tailwind as high level styling framework that simplifies many common scenarios you tackle with writing few lines of CSS.
> Extra wide 2XL breakpoint, for designing at 1536px and above Is it still common for folks to use pixels in their CSS? I moved to em and the rest around 1999 (I think). What is the reason to stick to pixels?
For those complaining about dense HTML using Tailwind, the headline feature of 2.0 should be @apply for everything: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/functions-and-directives#apply It lets you move all of those excessive class attributes into your CSS, where it realistically belongs. And that makes your CSS look a little more like CSS. But you get guard rails on it by applying a known set of properties to each rule. It's…
> Extra wide 2XL breakpoint, for designing at 1536px and above Is it still common for folks to use pixels in their CSS? I moved to em and the rest around 1999 (I think). What is the reason to stick to pixels?
I think that's referring to screen width. As in, breakpoint for when screen witdth is >= 1536px and as screens use pixels, that is the only unit talking about screens is reasonable in. em/rem/whatever don't make sense in media queries.
TailwindCSS is great but I wish it didn't require custom postcss build pipeline. You can use the prebuilt css file, but it lacks some features.