Discussion on "Why you absolutely need to try TailwindCSS"

Quentin · 2020-08-23T19:48:54.116Z

Some background I've started using TailwindCSS earlier this year after months of listening to a friend that had been recommending it to me. For some time, I was thinking: "Hmm, this will be yet another CSS framework with some built-in grid system, so...

Your point about the configuration file being the starting point resonates, but I'd push back slightly on utility-first being universally better — for design-system-heavy teams with strict component libraries, CSS-in-JS solutions like Stitches or Vanilla Extract can enforce design tokens at the type level. Have you worked in a codebase where both approaches coexisted?

Explained well! What are your thoughts on the css-in-js approach?

I like the approach as well, but from a purely logistical perspective, mixing JS and CSS might create more bottlenecks when working with designers/integrators that only familiar with HTML/CSS.

The CSS-in-JS approach is also tricker to organise properly in my opinion ! I overall prefer to separate the two. On the other hands, some developers will find it much more convenient to work with an all-in-one solution 🙂

Hi, I have seen more and more tailwind lately. I was wondering why you would use text-white instead of style=color:white. I know inline css is bad but it feels like tailwind is just a wrapper around css.

Would love you to hear your opinion

Hi Thomas,

Tailwind is indeed a wrapper (I prefer the term framework at that point because it adds value not just simplify), but also takes in customisation aspects at build time (which makes generated inline-css totally legit to use, since it is totally dynamic with the generated classes/variables ...).

It also offers the variants part (the hover:text-white for example) which is easy to read/use.

Finally, as I am saying in the article, it offers the possibility for a standard across projects and companies. That's where the biggest strength is, like any framework that becomes popular.

Really insightful, thanks for sharing!

This is the content I signed up for Quentin. Very insightful!

Hi Quentin,

Awesome write-up buddy!

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