Tailwind CSS and the death of web craftsmanship

Re:Tailwind CSS and the death of web craftsmanship by aej11 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:05PM (#36975515)

I think you missed the point of Tailwind, which is not to be an end-all be-all and replace CSS, it's just a utility library to replace/reduce the size of repetitive one-off classes. Nothing prevents you from using a CSS file for the more complex things you listed (which you should do), and Tailwind doesn't claim to replace all those parts of CSS.

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Re:Tailwind CSS and the death of web craftsmanship by ehutch79 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:27PM (#36975885)

The reason people think tailwind is supposed to replace CSS is the way adam wathan and the tailwind fanboys position it that way. There's a lot talk about how terrible css is from that camp.

Honestly, a lot of the negative sentiment comes from how the tailwind 'community' acts and positions themselves.

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Re:Tailwind CSS and the death of web craftsmanship by kristiandupont on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:40PM (#36976101)

Can you provide a link to where Adam Wathan said something like that?

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Re:Tailwind CSS and the death of web craftsmanship by ehutch79 on Thursday August 03, 2023 @09:07AM (#36985369)

https://tailwindcss.com/ https://twitter.com/adamwathan

The tailwind home page feels tamer now than before, but the tone is still there.

Adam’s replies on twitter have always been a problem. I’m not going to go searching old tweet replies, so you can think I’m talking out of my ass if you want. But the guy is an ass. A lot of the responses to even neutral articles were whining manbabyish stuff (yes that’s subjective opinion). I haven’t seen it lately, so I’m hoping someone had a talk with him.

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Re:Tailwind CSS and the death of web craftsmanship by ehutch79 on Thursday August 03, 2023 @09:09AM (#36985388)

I do want to reiterate that I think tailwind itself has some great ideas. And there’s nothing wrong with utility css, if you’re not using a library you’ll end up writ a lot of it yourself.

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Re:Tailwind CSS and the death of web craftsmanship by rado on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:15PM (#36975671)

Just a 50 KB library? Half of the budget of a fast site, according to Lighthouse.

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Re:Tailwind CSS and the death of web craftsmanship by sodapopcan on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:30PM (#36975931)

Tailwind isn't included in your final bundle, it outputs a CSS file based on what classes you use.

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