Tailwind Stressful
I don't know, maybe it just me but I find tailwind a bit stressful. I wanted to do a dropdown but couldn't. Later I found out that I need a plugin to make it work. Tried different plugins and tutorials but didn't work as I wanted. Had to drop the idea and switched to bootstrap which I am more comfortable with. Do you have a tutorial on tailwind? I find your tutorials more refreshing and your explanation is second to none!
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Tailwind has its uses, mostly in non-scoped css for component based frameworks like react, and for some rapid prototyping, but it's not an easier way to write CSS. Learn CSS proper and ignore tailwind. If you have a decent base of css knowledge, you can pick up tailwind in a matter of days, and start working with it almost right away because you can just search what you want to do in the docs and use those classes
Don’t use Tailwind, stick to CSS. You can solve problems with CSS trivially and in a way that is really easy to read and to experiment with. Tailwind just gives you long ugly class names that makes it harder to make tweaks and move things around
Yes Tailwind absolutely is stressful, it’s harder to make things, it pollutes your HTML making it hard to see what’s really going on and it’s suffocating. Don’t use it
I'm a big supporter of Tailwind, but at first I had a very hard time working with it: problems with classes (some names took me a long time to get used to), I was intimidated by the messy HTML, and there were situations where I needed to do something that Tailwind wouldn't let me do. However, 5 years of working with CSS doesn't compare to the speed of work I picked up after a week to a week and a half of using Tailwind. Now my development experience using Tailwind is wonderful. It really is a level up in almost every regard and I havent found anything that comes close. I can't say that I agree with all the decisions of the Tailwind dev team, however if I need to use NOT vanilla CSS, I always choose Tailwind
out of curiosity, what environment are you using tailwind in?
I like to style my react components in next js using it
do you use it outside of working with React?
because as far as I can tell, the lack of scoped CSS in base React is the primary reason people like tailwind. It solves that problem well enough
ehh, not really, I started using Tailwind after several years of SCSS, it wasn't that I blindly chose Tailwind and tried to educate myself on it
you're absolutely right with this, I like how vue solves this problem, yet i dont like how im forced to write my components the certain way
alright, thanks for the clarification