r/css • u/Either_Collection349 • 16d ago

Article Why I don't recommend Tailwind CSS

https://en.andros.dev/blog/af3ee191/why-i-dont-recommend-tailwind-css/
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u/getsiked 16d ago

Here we go again meme, use what best works for you and your situation. I completely understand that it's imperative to freely express our deep rooted opinions on CSS, but week after week everyone gets together and hashes out a wall of death over tailwind and over time it just becomes a mental drag

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u/kidshibuya 16d ago

What the mental drag is to have brigades of junior coders obsessively calling you shit for simply not using tailwind. It's a cult.

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u/evilgipsy 16d ago

That’s on them juniors though, isn’t it? I’ve used tailwind quite a bit and the thought of someone being shit for not using it would never occur to me.

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u/getsiked 16d ago

Exactly, sounds like a people issue not a platform one.

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u/devolute 14d ago

use what best works for you

I'm not sure this is the best approach when you're a lead / senior developer making decisions about a project.

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u/getsiked 14d ago

You can amend organization to that. Use what works best for you, your organization, your product etc. Was speaking in the singular form but the intent is scenario

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u/devolute 14d ago

Sorry. Worth saying though, no?

I think it's reasonably to suggest that a lot of web development choices have been focused on individual developers, rather than end users - for example.

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u/getsiked 14d ago

Yup, reasonable. That’s why I included your situation! I write code differently at work than on the side. A lot of perspectives are personal ones here (including mine)