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Discussion on: What are your thoughts on Tailwind CSS?

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Ryan Smith

It appeals to me by providing the benefits of a pre-styled library while still allowing you to create a custom design. The downside is that the design still needs to be created by the developer. Not all developers are detail-oriented when it comes to the front-end, so I could see it being a challenge for some. I have also seen many cases where Bootstrap users do not apply classes/markup correctly leading to elements that do not look as the maintainers intended, so Tailwind's added complexity with applying classes may lead to some designs that are not as polished.

They are also working on Tailwind UI, which I believe will be a paid set of templates created using Tailwind. I think that will help to bridge the gap with the other Bootstrap-like frameworks but I'm not sure if they are providing any parts of it for free. Last I heard, they are expecting to release it in February.