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Discussion on: Why I switched from normal CSS to Tailwind CSS

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Miloslav πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ¦‹ Voloskov • Edited

But if you use Tailwind, chances are you'll be standardizing raw CSS avoidance in your guidelines (otherwise your codebase would turn into a mess with the very first freshly hired frontend developer), so your cost to hire rises drastically, because you now have to teach every single frontend dev you hire how to use Tailwind? It's not nearly a no-brainer must-have like ES6, you can't only hire those who know Tailwind β€” there'll soon be no candidates to offer a job to.

I had to make that kind of β€Œdecisions while working as a lead frontend dev / evangelist and interviewing 10 devs a week. Gulp broke on us and turned into legacy, same with SCSS and obviously Backbone.

Can't go wrong with raw tools though, considering the fast pace of innovation of web standards.

To me, Tailwind is only perfect when you’re writing code alone πŸ˜‰