Re:Don't use Tailwind for your Design System
by robswc on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @10:57AM
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As a full stack that is mostly backend, I like the way CSS frameworks allow me to not have to worry too much about design. I originally used CSS "properly" but I found that it was a chore/pain basically recreating these CSS frameworks over and over.
It can get messy pretty fast but I find once you sorta get a handle on the frameworks, it becomes easy to parse as long as people aren't doing 10+ classes per element.
I've found working without a CSS framework, people will tend to re-invent the wheel 100 times. i.e. I've seen "padded-box" and "box-with-padding" classes.
I experience the worst of the worst tho, as I do a lot of refactoring work, so my take is a bit bias haha.
It can get messy pretty fast but I find once you sorta get a handle on the frameworks, it becomes easy to parse as long as people aren't doing 10+ classes per element.
I've found working without a CSS framework, people will tend to re-invent the wheel 100 times. i.e. I've seen "padded-box" and "box-with-padding" classes.
I experience the worst of the worst tho, as I do a lot of refactoring work, so my take is a bit bias haha.