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Tailwind is a Leaky Abstraction

I have to admit: as I’ve watched Tailwind enthusiastically adopted by more and more of the frontend community, I’ve remained skeptical. But, having never used it, I decided to keep quiet until I had an informed opinion.

Well, I’ve spent the past few months at work learning Tailwind with an open mind. I can now confidently say that I do, in fact, dislike Tailwind, and I wouldn’t use it for any new projects.

Tailwind is commonly described as “utility classes”, but that’s a bit of an understatement. It’s essentially a small language you write in the class attributes of your HTML that compiles to a combination of CSS rules and selectors — an abstraction over CSS. But all abstractions leak, and Tailwind is very leaky.

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faust

faust

Oh, nice one, unfortunately I don’t own this book so I won’t be able to take part on it, but I’m looking forward for some future opportunity =)
It seems a great idea to keep people motivated.

faust

faust

Oh, nice!
I just love this forum more each day :blush:
I’ll PM you
Thanks!

gflashner

gflashner

Maybe it is just me, but I really didn’t enjoy working with Tailwind utility classes. I am not a CSS expert, but I still like working with plain CSS.

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