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TailwindCSS: Adds complexity, does nothing. - DEV Community

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If you work in the front-end, you've probably heard a lot about TailwindCSS, a CSS library, much like...

If you work in the front-end, you've probably heard a lot about TailwindCSS, a CSS library, much like Bootstrap. Much unlike Bootstrap, however, Tailwind takes a different approach - it is all "utility classes". And I am not a fan. I got a whiff of it and quickly learned the name is appropos: it was as welcome and useful as passed gas. Before we start, let me try to explain what a utility class is. Let's say that you have many components, and many of them need to have the CSS style property: "display: flex;". Instead of writing that over and over in your css, multiple times, instead you create

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