[aleksandrm]

What were the benefits that you felt instantly? I still don't feel anything and would prefer plain CSS over Tailwind any day.

[ForHackernews]

It lets you apply styles to a single element without it messing up the whole rest of the page/site/app. i.e. it disabled the primary feature of CSS, the thing most people don't want from it.

[peacebeard]

I agree that the primary feature of CSS is what people don't want from it anymore. If you're building your app with components (web components, react, etc), those become the unit of reuse. You don't need CSS to offer an additional unit of reuse, it only complicates things at that point.

[azangru]

Why do people prefer it over CSS modules? They also solve the style containment problem, and do not require any effort to set up, or any additional library to learn?

[cluckindan]

Which means most people don’t understand the basics of what they’re working on.

[jasonkester]

I think that’s what people are talking about when they say they don’t see the benefit.

There’s already a style attribute on every html element that does exactly that, and works fine in components.

“There must be something more…?” But it turns out there’s not. Just shorthand class names to save you having to type padding-left:4px

[aleksandrm]

I can already do the same with plain CSS. How is this better?

[Tade0]

How is that different than inline styles?

[jackhuman]

I first took a css courses to get the basics then didn’t do much with it, then tailwind came out. I had used bootstrap, but always struggled to get stuff to look nice. I’m not doing web dev most of the time. So it was much easier to memorize tailwind utility classes than css. These days with ui frameworks like daisy, shadcn, tailwind is pretty easy for doing something simple for an IT dev tool but still customize it.

For creativity, I wished I had the time to get really good with css. It really seems to have grown a lot. Using sveltekit, its really easy to get component scoped css

[watwut]

Honestly, for me, tailwind was just pleasant to work with and pure css definitely was not.

And I was super skeptical about it at first. I almost said no to it, but I trusted our main ui guy and wanted to allow him autonomy. And I ended up loving tailwind after working with it.