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azangrulast Saturday at 8:37 PM1 replyview on HN

Do you remember what made it click for you? What was the hard part of writing plain CSS that tailwind made significantly easier?


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christophiluslast Saturday at 9:03 PM

CSS requires discipline, or you end up accidentally styling something completely unrelated because you were overly general, or overly specific, or accidentally reused a class name. CSS disallows local reasoning. If you’re writing markup for a component, you have to jump between two files.

There are plenty of other problems Tailwind solves, but these two alone make me never want to go back.

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