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You Don't Need To Learn TailwindCSS To Use It

Elijah Trillionz on October 12, 2022

A few months back, I wrote an article on when to learn React, now in this article, I'm going to do something similar on TailwindCSS/Tailwind only t...
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Naga Monish Munagala

How can you tell if you actually know tailwind? I agree that it enhances your CSS skills, but I see myself keep on going back to the tailwind documentation to see if I am writing the code correctly. Like, is it correct for me to put "Tailwind CSS" as a skill in my resume?

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Elijah Trillionz

Well, knowing or should I say mastering Tailwind can only be as a result of you using it daily. And yeah it's fine to head to the docs every now and then to figure out the classes you want to use for a particular style you want. There is an extension that also makes the job easier though, such that you don't have to head back to the docs.

And then finally, I don't recommend adding Tailwind as a skill in your resume, though I'm not an expert in getting jobs, but I can tell you that if I was a recruiter I'd rather love to see CSS as a skill rather than TailwindCSS.

This is because I know that even though you don't know Tailwind, as long as you know CSS, you can always use it.

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byby.dev

If you think Tailwind as a replacement for CSS, you'll somehow hate it at some point. If we think Tailwind as another CSS framework to get job done faster, you might enjoy using it more than you think. The tricky part is you'll feel guilty when using it because not learning vanilla CSS properly, which might hurt you when switching to projects not using tailwind.

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Wade Zimmerman

IMO Tailwind made enhanced my CSS skills. When I was using component based frameworks like Bootstrap, I felt like I had to Google CSS more often. Plus, if a feature wasn't included in the framework, it felt wrong. With Tailwind, CSS feels natural.

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Elijah Trillionz

Yeah, using Tailwind to me feels like I'm actually using vanilla CSS.
Also thanks for sharing your experience.

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EniolaCodes

Nice article, well done.
I agree with you, tailwindcss isn’t a framework you spend days learning, you can go over it in 3-4hrs then pick a project to work with it.
I just dabbled into it and presently building my first project with it. It’s a cool framework.

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Elijah Trillionz

Absolutely Eniola.
It's an awesome framework. And the more you build projects with it, the more it sticks with you.

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Yongchang He

Thank you for sharing this!

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Elijah Trillionz

You're welcome.
I'm glad you liked it

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Shoubhit Dash

Great article. I myself advise so many people not to look at courses for stuff like tailwind and typescript. You really need to use them to learn them.

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Elijah Trillionz

Exactly