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by agloe_dreams 965 days ago
We've been using it for a little over a year. So far my biggest finding is that Tailwind works best when you have a UX team that is forced to play by the same rules. In that context, with a heavily chopped down tailwind.config, it comes alive as a utility. It can even act to proof mistakes in the UX work. A div with a 1rem padding, with a BG of neutral lightest and a text color of "primary" is a spec defined by class names and a mock. I honestly think that in uncontrolled environments without a singular design system and without configuration, tailwind can become a mess. I really do not care for the out of the OOB config, it is way too free on color schemes. You need a few people to play the rulemakers and constraint for it to be helpful.
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> Tailwind works best when you have a UX team that is forced to play by the same rules

I agree but found that Bootstrap (>v4) to be better at this. Instead of every possible color and tweakie, Bootstrap has pretty decent utility classes that are semantic, and in addition to all the basic components like button, etc:

https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/utilities/background/