Re:Why We're Leaving Serverless
by ch4s3 on Thursday October 16, 2025 @12:23AM
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That’s funny, I agree with all of those but tailwind which I find to be super convenient for small teams where most people aren’t css experts. Maybe that’s a specific problem but it feels pretty general to want convenience on top of base css stuff without writing and making it all yourself.
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Is the main benefit you find related to the resets and design system built in to tailwind?
I've always found that I need to know CSS to really use tailwind, and I need to additionally know tailwind-specific syntax to do anything somewhat complex related to layout or conditional styling.
You need to know a little css but way less. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten backed into using !important with tailwind.
I think the entire concept of HTML and CSS when it comes to browser-based app development (as opposed to styling documents) is just not that ergonomic compared to a native equivalent.
It might have seen a lot of improvements over the years to make it more flexible but I can't imagine any serious project raw dogging CSS in favour of pulling in some kind of framework or abstraction to make it manageable.