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Discussion on: Start Using Tailwind CSS Right Now

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darkwiiplayer profile image
𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

The colors that Tailwind offers are not just CSS colors with fancy names, they are much more appealing.

This really seems like some heavy mental gymnastics to argue against vanilla CSS. In reality, CSS gives you a multitude of tools to define the colours you want for your design, whereas frameworks like tailwind only provide a very limited palette of pre-built colours.

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lil5 profile image
Lucian I. Last

I suggest you read a little bit into the documentation concerning 'tailwind.config.js'

tailwindcss.com/docs/configuration

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darkwiiplayer profile image
𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

The mental gymnastics continues. I just don't get why people are so opposed to simply learning CSS instead of finding all these excuses to dump all of the styling in the markdown like it's 1990 or something.

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Lucian I. Last

Because naming is hard, less names written less time lost on frivolous names.

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darkwiiplayer profile image
𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

Naming is only hard when you're not really sure what it is you're naming

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Gautam

Learning CSS first is obviously a necessity, however Tailwind can help in writing frontend much faster. When using plain CSS, I've found that I am much less productive, spending time switching between files and editing. Tailwind can look pretty messy, but if your team knows it, I've found that it speeds up writing frontend very significantly.