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Why does everyone love Tailwind ?

Ritav Das on June 24, 2023

Introduction Tailwind CSS is a popular CSS framework that has gained a lot of traction among front-end developers in recent years. It's ...
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Robin Oger

Tailwind is awesome. Great for design system unification in a big team, well optimized and everything. But it comes with kind of a trap for CSS beginners.
I found some horrors in students’ code who didn’t know CSS basics, got appealed by the easy aspect of Tailwind and managed to write random classes in their code until it vaguely looks like what they wanted.

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Ritav Das

Definitely Robin.

First thing is to get the basics right, learn flexbox and grid and then jump onto tailwind.

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Spandan Sehgal

TailwindCss is just awesome, cant live without it (for designing purpose) :)

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Ritav Das

I can't imagine using MUI or Bootstrap now.

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Spandan Sehgal

Yea 🤣

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Ganesh Patil

Tailwind is so good. Learning for next Projects and it's really good.
Thanks for sharing 😊

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Ritav Das

Really appreciate the comment Ganesh :D

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Ganesh Patil

Hey Ritav,
can you share some good resources to learn Tailwind.

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Ritav Das

Get a good working knowledge of CSS - especially flexbox and grid.
This was the first video I watched for learning Tailwind
surl.li/ilrru

Try to understand this perfectly and then read docs , create small projects and ask GPT for help

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Volodyslav

I like using Tailwind in my Django projects. Nice article 😁

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Ritav Das

I love it and thanks Vlad! :D

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eshimischi

Switched to UnoCSS, but Tailwind was and is a good tool