ANandruby·Dec 21, 2023
74K stars on github is _some_ evidence.
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss
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tailwindlabs / tailwindcss
tailwindcss
A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
37Distinct people
39Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
98.6KGitHub stars
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What it is
A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
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Where it is used
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What people are saying
I love how easy it is to add a PWA selector: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/6755
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HN mentions by year39 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2019-02-26 18:33:35 UTC to 2026-09-15 14:36:52 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 2 | 7 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 0 | 7 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesOne example is rotation along axes other than Z, which is required for 3D transforms. Here's a two year old issue on it: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/3521
Another is attribute selector support. They have many common ones, but to do anything more complex you need to add support to your configuration. https://tailwindcss.com/docs/hover-focus-and-other-states#at...
I don't want to oversell this; I think Tailwind does a pretty good job covering the "happy path", and if you haven't run into any gaps I wouldn't worry about it too much. But you'll encounter its limits well before you encounter the limits of CSS.
In Tailwind and the death of web craftsmanshipPrettier also came to mind, and I'm usually pretty happy with the "it's formatted this way, deal with it" approach - but I also would like the tool to behave predictably with updates. Prettier had some changes in 2.5 related to multi-line-classes (namely, forbidding them), which in turn made it unusable for projects with tailwind usage, as it now forces extremely long lines in some cases. (Especially for elements that have styling based on multiple breakpoints and a darkmode variant, you're hitting >120 chars easily).
I know that you can go for descriptive classnames and "@apply", but I was still miffed about a change like this in an already existing tool, with a lot of community pushback and no compromise in sight.
(Here's a relevant discussion, but keep in mind that multi-line-classes worked at some point and now just don't: https://git
Read the rest
hub.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/7763)
So for prettier, it wasn't just "format your code our way or else" - which is a good approach for a formatter, see also gofmt - it was "your current set up doesn't work anymore, tough luck".