I do disagree with a lot of points in this. Tailwind is noisy, and sure its not a silver bullet but it removes one thing from out todo list: css architecture. We are really bad at this, esp. naming stuff. With tailwind we are just getting things done and it looks great.
Recommending jsx styles has at least the same amount of shortcomings as tailwind, the whole post feels like „i dont like and you shouldnt either, because what i use is obviously better.“ :shrug:
Especially the responsive modifiers are a huge enabler. We are actually several month in the making of a very specialized mobile website which is gonna be released as an android and a ios app. Recently we are asked to add a desktop version. I was really concerned about our given deadline and said to the client, it would be possible but would probably take one or two weeks to develop. After telling my colleague that we have to make an desktop version out of the app, we were both concerned. But it turns out that after one day in the making, we did have a fairly good looking desktop version which the client really liked.
I am pretty sure that with plain old css and our poor architecture we wouldnt be able to deliver in time.
Admitting that the point of vendor lock in I do feel and did not think about that long But compared to bootstrap with custom styles applied I pretty much have the same situation i guess
Recommending jsx styles has at least the same amount of shortcomings as tailwind, the whole post feels like „i dont like and you shouldnt either, because what i use is obviously better.“ :shrug: