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Tailwind vs. normal CSS - performance and size (nuejs.org)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/webdev

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This study compares two websites with similar design: the commercial Spotlight template from developers of Tailwind vs the same site with semantic CSS.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But plain CSS is proper CSS. Tailwind is training wheels for people who don't want to learn CSS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That is not true. You do need to know CSS to make proper use of Tailwind for anything beyond changing colors and padding. That's the reason why the Intellisense VS Code extension gives the underlying CSS on hover. I'd love to see a newbie try content layout knowing nothing but Tailwind.