alt Hacker News> nothing about tailwind forces you to build inaccessible or "div soup" apps
Totally agree. I feel like this was more a by product of React. Not that React forced this either, but it felt like the rise in both went hand in hand for some reason.
While I think it's true that none of the current top FE technologies force the div soup, they don't discourage it either. It would be nice if what ever FE technologies catch on next did try to encourage better practices around things like accessibility. Make the path of least semantic HTML the path of least resistance and allow people to fall into the pit of success, ya know?
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React encouraged this for years by requiring a single parent element being returned from all components. They also showed a div as the option of choice.
They fixed this later with Fragments but the damage was done.
Nothing about programming forces anyone to do anything.
That's never been a valid argument to dismiss criticism. It wasn't with Dreamweaver, any it wasn't with visual basic, and it isn't with Tailwind.
Patterns matter. Best practices matter. Path of least resistance matters. Those are all choices you make when you develop a CSS framework. Some of those choices are good and some are bad.
If none of those things mattered, them choosing a CSS framework would not matter at all.