Re:Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus
by troupo on Saturday July 26, 2025 @06:13AM
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This is objectively good clean code when you develop it.
Because most of those classes are per component.
If you have a single card component defined with these classes, and then repeat it 20 times on the page, then of course the output will look like a giant mess.
> How did tailwind get so popular?
- quick to understand and get started with
- much cleaner for components than the variety of CSS-in-JS libs
- (mostly) do not require fighting CSS with BEM-style atrocities
- come with nice default styles and colors that can be easily changed and extended
> Learn plain CSS. It's really good now
CSS is okay now. We only just got nesting and scoping
Because most of those classes are per component.
If you have a single card component defined with these classes, and then repeat it 20 times on the page, then of course the output will look like a giant mess.
> How did tailwind get so popular?
- quick to understand and get started with
- much cleaner for components than the variety of CSS-in-JS libs
- (mostly) do not require fighting CSS with BEM-style atrocities
- come with nice default styles and colors that can be easily changed and extended
> Learn plain CSS. It's really good now
CSS is okay now. We only just got nesting and scoping