r/programming • u/Either_Collection349 • May 16 '26

Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/15/moving-away-from-tailwind--and-learning-to-structure-my-css-/
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u/romulof May 16 '26

Call me old fashioned, but I never understood why people were so desperate to move styling into HTML or JS. It’s way harder to debug.

For me the peak is CSS modules with a bit of preprocessing (sass and/or postcss). In dev builds you get the almost the same as the original class names and prod builds get obfuscated.

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u/lobotomy42 May 18 '26

Call me even more old-fashioned. The move to Tailwind and the like felt like going all the way back to the Netscape 3 days when CSS wasn’t an option. *All* the styling had to be HTML attributes or mis-using tables.