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by Brajeshwar 1738 days ago
Tailwind is written in SASS and is not like SASS. I would equate Tailwind to an earlier utility framework like Bourbone[1].

Tailwind can be used to build/write "StyledComponents". And one can write in the style/methodology/philosophy of BEM.

All the the above terms are all of different categories.

1. https://www.bourbon.io
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kaishiro 1738 days ago
Tailwind is not, in fact, written in SASS (also, for what it's worth it's Sass - not SASS) - it's a PostCSS plugin. Additionally, the primary use case of Bourbon was to create composable mixins - not to expose utility classes. It would only be comparable to Tailwind if you were using Tailwind's @apply rules and not composing with the utility classes directly in the DOM.
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mcntsh 1738 days ago
The bottom line is Tailwind is not a component library so this doesn't defeat the purpose of Tailwind any more than it would defeat the purpose of StyledComponents.
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