[joshellington]

Having written production CSS for 15+ years across everything from global e-commerce Magento sites to new age Next.js RSC projects, I like Tailwind (after much conflict). The piece I feel like is missing in most explanations of why it “works” is the flow you can achieve with it. It’s a distinct difference. The idea of essentially hammer utility classes, all provided in one package, provides a novel experience that does stick.

As many will say, it’s biased towards component-based code, which I agree is where it shines the brightest. But even in my legacy Rails projects, I can’t shake the want for more utility/generalized classes.