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My honest opinion on Tailwind CSS

Chris Bongers on November 26, 2021

I've written quite a few articles about Tailwind CSS and would really like to give my honest opinion about it. There seems to be a big divide betw...
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Sm0ke

Daisy UI looks really nice.
Tkx for sharing

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Chris Bongers

Thanks!

Glad you liked it

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Max Ong Zong Bao

hmmm...for me i had heard about tailwind a lot. but I didn't dive into it cause as you had mentioned it takes a lot of understanding of CSS. I would question on do i really need it especially there's packages making it harder to build or tools to learn to build it.

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Chris Bongers

The answer will always be "it depends"
For me it makes sense as I really like the purge of CSS and don't want to deal with it myself.

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Michael Andreuzza

here is mine wickedblocks.dev/!

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Chris Bongers

Oh darn Michael
How did I miss this one!

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Michael Andreuzza

because we are humans!! 🙌🙌

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tanth1993

yeah right. right tool for right job

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Chris Bongers

Always consider which tool solves the problem best 👏

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nanaaikinson24

The best Tailwind UI library or components I’ve used so far is Kutty. In my own opinion, it’s easier to customize than daisy ui

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Chris Bongers

Nice sounds like a great one! 🎉

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Jakub Smetanka

Great article, I agree with your state, if you know which CSS property you want to use, tailwind classes save a time.
I like their documentatiom, easy to find what I need.

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Chris Bongers

Exactly!

If I didn't know the ins and outs of CSS I would be super lost to be honest.

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valeri

Sounds good

Tailwind discovery for my

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Chris Bongers

Awesome!

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Shrihan

I primarily use Tailwind for it's predefined colours and generic sizes of margins, paddings and stuff, which "just work", 'cause I'm really bad at it 😅

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Chris Bongers

Yep! You don't have to be a designer to make beatifull stuff.
It really helps me a lot as well.

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Tanzim Ibthesam

Even using it while need for writing custom css in bootstrap lol.

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nanaaikinson24 • Edited

Same here. All I did was to prefix tailwind class names to avoid any conflict. Eg, bootstrap: mb-3, tailwind: tw-mb-3