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by ahuth 326 days ago
Can't agree that Tailwind is popular because it forces you to setup a centralized config file (although I guess that is nice).

It's because, as ugly as a long line of inline classes can be, it's easy to know exactly what styles are being applied to an element. Especially when there are more than 1 or 2 devs writing styles.

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... do people not know about browser developer tools?

Unless a project has really messed up, it is trivial to see what styles are being applied to any element.

Ah yes, so much easier to poke through the styles in the dev tools than to just put your eyeballs on the css class in the file.