Re:Tailwind Is a Leaky Abstraction
by atsjie on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @12:41PM
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Separation of concerns went out of the window a long time ago when frameworks (i.e. React) showed that it's better to combine business logic + markup into a neat encapsulated package.
Having a neatly encapsulated component that does everything is fine in most setups. Your main challenge will be not growing these components too big.
(( I really dislike Tailwind btw, mostly because I am just translating CSS into something else all the time which feels like a waste of mental effort; and the long lines of cryptic classnames is just bizarre to gain such a big popularity. I loathe it, it's a maintenance hell. I imagine all frontend devs liking this grew up using Bootstrap or something and mostly do small projects ))
Having a neatly encapsulated component that does everything is fine in most setups. Your main challenge will be not growing these components too big.
(( I really dislike Tailwind btw, mostly because I am just translating CSS into something else all the time which feels like a waste of mental effort; and the long lines of cryptic classnames is just bizarre to gain such a big popularity. I loathe it, it's a maintenance hell. I imagine all frontend devs liking this grew up using Bootstrap or something and mostly do small projects ))