[gidan]

While it may seems like a great idea, I just finished a project for a client on Tailwind.

First of all it's not free, to use UI components it would cost many hundreds of dollars.

But maybe cost is not an issue for all, on the other hand productivity might be.

I found myself terribly less productive, having many classes like:

  <div class="mt-8 mx-4 flex flex-col items-center font-medium text-base ..."

it's very hard to add or remove a rule compared to CSS where each rule is on it's own line.

Also some pretty significant issue for me was hot-reloading taking a lot of time, whereas in CSS you can just refresh linked stylesheet, with tailwind you need to reload complete page, and if your page is hosted on a Django/Symfony/RoR application in development mode, you better have to be patient at each CSS modification !

[degif]

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "it's not free"? Based on Github, Tailwindcss is open-source and MIT licensed.

[Ankhers]

There is a project by the creators/maintainers of Tailwind called TailwindUI[1] that is paid. The pricing appears to start at $149 USD which may not be accessible for everyone.

[1] https://tailwindui.com/