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Tailwind vs. normal CSS - performance and size (nuejs.org)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A lot of comments seem to think that Tailwind is just a way to save a few keystrokes at the expense of legibility and leanness.

For me, the value comes from not having to jump all over a codebase, not having to name so many things, having clearer scopes and pulling things like colors and spacings from a central config.

I know there's a hundred different ways to solve those issues that wouldn't offend CSS purists but ask 10 different people and you'll get 10 different answers with 10 different caveats.

So I use Tailwind to write fuckugly markup in a faster, easily iterated way that will be instantly familiar to anyone who knows Tailwind.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I think Tailwind and things like it win out when you've got a good component structured project.

For a more traditional web page ... I think I'd prefer traditional CSS.