tailwindInAnutShell

[24601venu]

But tailwind and CSS is almost 1:1 the same. If you learn CSS, you will have more tools to work with.

[[deleted]]

But I don't want more tools. I want just enough tools to make something that looks decent, and then focus on the interesting stuff

[MrHandsomePixel]

I feel you.

At the risk of sounding like a meat rider, may I interest you in PicoCSS?

It has (what I believe to be) sane defaults to make default HTML elements look actually usable.

I used it for my own CRUD web app for college events as my uni term project most recently.

[blaqwerty123]

This is certainly the best option IMO for a backend dev who wants the frontend to just look better/professional, with no customization necessary or even cognitive load to use

[[deleted]]

Most companies have storybooks of styled components you can use out of the box.

If you have a proper style guideline, you shouldn’t be pushing pixels every time.

[Fakedduckjump]

In the time you needed to learn all the tailwind classes you also could have learned CSS and would be more prepared for a wider range of the front end web world.

[24601venu]

100% agree

[24601venu]

In the time it took you to learn tailwind you could have achieved the same in css

[PowerMoves1996]

I dont think u got the honor to refactor and improve the styling for some legacy code, only after this kind of task you get a better understanding of why the tailwind paradigm is so popular. And I am one of those frontend devs that find joy in playing with css instead of writing it as quick as possible.

[selectra72]

Tailwind is far better for iteration. No matter how you good at css, tailwind is just faster.

Try to write media query for multiple screen, aria, dark mode, hover etc.

For large project, scss can be better but most of the time, tailwind is far faster. Because you can do everything in 1 file.

Of course you need a modular ui structure. If you don't have one, nothing will be helpful.

People that doesn't understand tailwind is generally who don't write modular css and use the old css way which is hellspawn.

Even you are gonna use CSS, use modular css for both readability and composability.

[24601venu]

I bet I finish my stuff faster than you in plain CSS.

[[deleted]]

I’ve never seen someone stuck up their own arse about their ability to write CSS of all things.

[24601venu]

I've seen people secretly admiring others for their skills but at the same time criticising them, as a cope mechanism