Author of Tailwind here! If you haven't worked with a library like this before, I promise your gut reaction will be "holy hell this is the worst thing I've ever seen" (it was my reaction too!)
You really do have to try it to shake that impression.
If you need a bit more convincing before you're willing to try it, I wrote an in-depth article a while ago that documents my journey from a "semantic classes"-loving HTML/CSS purist to a utility-loving heathen:
https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-...
If you want to watch it in action, here's a screencast where I rebuild the Netlify UI in an hour and a half without writing any custom CSS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JhTaENzfZQ
...and if you want "social proof", here's an interview I did with Diana Mounter who leads the design systems team at GitHub about how moving to a utility-based approach has made things infinitely more maintainable for them, and given their developers a lot more confidence:
http://www.fullstackradio.com/75
If you have any questions I'll be checking the comments, thanks!
You really do have to try it to shake that impression.
If you need a bit more convincing before you're willing to try it, I wrote an in-depth article a while ago that documents my journey from a "semantic classes"-loving HTML/CSS purist to a utility-loving heathen:
https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-...
If you want to watch it in action, here's a screencast where I rebuild the Netlify UI in an hour and a half without writing any custom CSS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JhTaENzfZQ
...and if you want "social proof", here's an interview I did with Diana Mounter who leads the design systems team at GitHub about how moving to a utility-based approach has made things infinitely more maintainable for them, and given their developers a lot more confidence:
http://www.fullstackradio.com/75
If you have any questions I'll be checking the comments, thanks!