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Tailwind CSS is the worst…

1/16/2023Updated 1/25/2026

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{ts:104} Blasphemous inline Styles at first glance and that's a very valid criticism {ts:108} and likely the main turn off for people {ts:110} when they first look into using Tailwind however the benefit is that you don't {ts:113} have all these arbitrary class names … {ts:126} tailwind and hate the way your HTML looks the inline fold vs code extension {ts:129} can automatically minimize it for you {ts:131} problem number two is that CSS is for Bose remember everything in Tailwind is {ts:135} just CSS hover over any class to view … {ts:160} you have to learn an abstraction on top of CSS which is not ideal it's always {ts:164} best to use the platform natively but {ts:166} the web platform is often cruel and vengeful Now problem three is that CSS {ts:170} gives you too much control over the UI … {ts:182} design like when you build a bootstrap app it always tends to look like a {ts:185} bootstrap app with Tailwind is not so {ts:187} obvious now the final problem I want to talk about is zombie Styles we have a {ts:191} tendency to write styles that never

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