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b1n | 2 years ago

Complaints about TailwindCSS always remind me of this quote:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-ge...

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jokethrowaway|2 years ago

I feel the same about people praising Tailwind.

Tailwind (and similar, I tend to use https://unocss.dev/) is not good for your frontend architecture BUT they allow you to be so fast, that it negates the benefits.

For a job well done, I'd follow the principles of https://maintainablecss.com/ For throwaway code I need to cram out as fast as I can, Tailwind it is.

I understand agencies using Tailwind, or Bootstrap, their revenue depends on it.

joshmanders|2 years ago

> For a job well done

What's the definition of a job well done? In my eyes it's completing the project and getting it out the door to customers to use. If Tailwind makes that happen, then isn't it a job well done?

gedy|2 years ago

“It is difficult to get a junior dev to understand something, when his resume-building depends on his not understanding it.” ― gedy

agos|2 years ago

that's a cheap way to dismiss every critic to something

ryanSrich|2 years ago

Is tailwindui associated with tailwindCSS? If not, then the lack of completeness and quality of this UI kit says nothing about tailwindCSS.

input_sh|2 years ago

Literally on the page:

> Built by experts — you can trust that all of the code is written following Tailwind CSS best practices, because it’s written by the same team who created and maintain the framework.

It's one of many templates that they sell: https://tailwindui.com/templates