and then people have to learn what it all means, where those variables are, how your mess of custom CSS hangs together, and probably what overrides what in your hierarchy
you end up with this soup of classes on every single element
it’s either than or a soup of stuff in CSS. the difference is largely academic in modern HTML because it’s all contained in components anyway
they have to be as short as possible, and so they can’t use font-size and font-weight.
they don’t have to be; they could easily use font size and font weight, but i much much prefer the -lg notation… it makes your flow so much quicker. it reduces cognitive load significantly
I still suspect you’re better off just using the effort you would need to learn the tailwind classes to instead learn plain flexbox.
i know flexbox and grid plenty well, and similar applies across the board for things like tailwind: containing everything together so that you don’t have to mess around switching between different places to define things, and using classes that kinda just represent what you want in shorthand literally makes my frontend development literally 10x quicker, and just feel smoother… even when i’m just doing personal projects
you don’t have to believe me; that’s fine… but i used to think similarly to you, had a couple of failed attempts and hated tailwind, and my most recent personal projects it just clicked and everything feels so nice. i’m a principal engineer, and have done plenty of work on all kinds of projects so it’s not like i’m inexperienced and just go with the latest fad. these small time savings really add up
and then people have to learn what it all means, where those variables are, how your mess of custom CSS hangs together, and probably what overrides what in your hierarchy
it’s either than or a soup of stuff in CSS. the difference is largely academic in modern HTML because it’s all contained in components anyway
they don’t have to be; they could easily use font size and font weight, but i much much prefer the -lg notation… it makes your flow so much quicker. it reduces cognitive load significantly
i know flexbox and grid plenty well, and similar applies across the board for things like tailwind: containing everything together so that you don’t have to mess around switching between different places to define things, and using classes that kinda just represent what you want in shorthand literally makes my frontend development literally 10x quicker, and just feel smoother… even when i’m just doing personal projects
you don’t have to believe me; that’s fine… but i used to think similarly to you, had a couple of failed attempts and hated tailwind, and my most recent personal projects it just clicked and everything feels so nice. i’m a principal engineer, and have done plenty of work on all kinds of projects so it’s not like i’m inexperienced and just go with the latest fad. these small time savings really add up