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I can't seem to be convinced by proponents of Tailwind. Sure, it's easier to maintain CSS with the utility-first approach, but it makes for terribly unreadable code.

Trading off readability for writeability is a hard sell. You read orders of magnitude more code than you write it.

You don't need to be convinced. You just need to use it.

Felt weird to me at first too, but Tailwind is way more readable than CSS/classes. Because it's in one file. Show a modern dev a React/Tailwind file and they can read it. And don't have to jump through multiple files to understand what's happening.

This is Warpcast. I can read it. If you use Tailwind you can too. That's really nice.

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I also run a YouTube channel, "Learn from Open Source": youtube.com/elie2222 

I used to use emotion/styled. Switched to tailwind a few years ago and haven’t looked back.

At first I didn’t really get the hype. Took a while to get comfortable with but today I wouldn’t look back and it is the gold standard for frontend dev today. Same way React is. Might change in the future ofc.

Sure, having styles colocated with the component is a huge win. CSS in js affords that with improved readability.

Check panda CSS and Chakra UI

I'm not saying tailwind makes code absolutely unreadable...but it's not easy to browse through. You don't glimpse the code and immediately find what you're looking for.