Ngl I love tailwind, I’ve been through so many different css paradigms
- separate css files: why did we ever do this, if you’ve ever used kendo’s css stuff you’ll understand how unfathomable hundreds of thousands of lines of css with complex rules is. Identifying all the things that affect a single component is the work of dozens of minutes at minimum, sometimes hours, you have to understand every nook and cranny of the css spec.
- inline styles: fine, but verbose and requires object spreading, harder to compose, theming is tough and requires discipline to be consistent in your theme conventions, almost impossible to also theme imported library components
- module.css with imported classes: my go to outside of tailwind
- scss: I actually really like scss but it exacerbates the complexity and mystery of css, great for small projects but terrible as projects bloat
- bootstrap: basically just worse tailwind, providing only components and colors
That’s all I can think of right now, but tailwind is my preferred way to style a new project, I love how easy theming and style consistency is
Tailwind uses css variables, it’s really nothing more than a bunch of helper classes on top of css, it’s not a replacement or anything.