Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by super256 1298 days ago
When you pick up tailwind, you will automatically learn vanilla CSS along the way.
1 comments

I like Tailwind, but I am not sure I'd recommend it to someone without prior experience and deep understanding of CSS. In my opinion, abstractions rarely teach us the underlying layers of a technology.
> I like Tailwind, but I am not sure I'd recommend it to someone without prior experience and deep understanding of CSS. In my opinion, abstractions rarely teach us the underlying layers of a technology.

I started with Tailwind and as I learned CSS along the way. Obviously people will look up stuff on MDN when they are stumbling on terms they didn't know about.

The tailwind docs + tw-intellisense plugin [1] are pretty good, too. Especially since the extension shows the raw CSS behind the abstraction when you hover over a class name.

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bradlc.v...