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Aleksandr Hovhannisyan • Edited

and this is the thing that scares most of the developers approaching it

I think it's a well-founded fear, though. I don't personally like Tailwind or Bootstrap. They make it very overwhelming to parse what would otherwise be a very simple, legible chunk of markup. I can remember most of the CSS attributes and values I work with frequently. I would need to keep a reference sheet on hand, or study Tailwind's API, to remember most of their class names.

I think Steve Schoger is a brilliant designer/UI dev, though. Some of his UI tips have helped me make noticeable improvements to my own site.

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Matteo Frana

If you start using Tailwind, you'll see that in no time you'll remember almost all of the syntax.
Now for me it's much simpler to remeber justify-between than justify-content: space-between;.

As for the legibility, when you work with components, as with React, you encapsulate the "many class complexity" in the component: outside of it you just see <HeroUnit title="..." />