One of the biggest benefits of using tailwind is constraining styling to a set of pre-defined utility classes to follow a design system, and (almost) automatically have a consistent UI in terms of colors, spacing, etc.
Not a single word about that in the blog post...
The author sounds like they’ve never had to work with a set of design standards and just use Bootstrap or some other gross and inflexible framework for everything. That’s cool if you want to make an incredibly boring looking site. I’ve done the “override styles in Bootstrap to make it less ugly” dance before, and it sucks compared to using Tailwind or any other utility-first framework.
One of the biggest benefits of using tailwind is constraining styling to a set of pre-defined utility classes to follow a design system, and (almost) automatically have a consistent UI in terms of colors, spacing, etc.
Not a single word about that in the blog post...
The author sounds like they’ve never had to work with a set of design standards and just use Bootstrap or some other gross and inflexible framework for everything. That’s cool if you want to make an incredibly boring looking site. I’ve done the “override styles in Bootstrap to make it less ugly” dance before, and it sucks compared to using Tailwind or any other utility-first framework.
This is amazing for big/enterprise applications
Also did you give this post a read?