> If you're not using Tailwind (or something like it) then you're going to end up creating classes using the raw CSS, and then naming them yourself, and then having to remember what you called them.
This is true. But if we better taught the cascade and promoted the idea of global styles rather than pretending it's a problem then more people would be better at this and the problems would gently recede.
We (the high-end front-end dev community) have fallen into the habit of using class names where we really wanted IDs and using components when we really wanted global styles. I feel we have been pushed in this direction by developers who didn't understand the technology properly. The Tailwind author clearly understands it, so I'm not targeting them... but they are supporting the people who don't see why the cascade is useful.
We have megabytes of code to create the impression of global consistency (components, style libraries, CSS-modules...) shipped to millions of users every hour. Browsers do that for us already. Embrace the simplicity of
button { border: foo; color: bar; }
.callout button { color: aux; }
It's so clear, so elegant. The obsession with modularising everything, and then applying a DSL to get between the modules, makes the language's inherent convenience, elegance and clarity so much harder to work with that it boggles my mind.
This is true. But if we better taught the cascade and promoted the idea of global styles rather than pretending it's a problem then more people would be better at this and the problems would gently recede.
We (the high-end front-end dev community) have fallen into the habit of using class names where we really wanted IDs and using components when we really wanted global styles. I feel we have been pushed in this direction by developers who didn't understand the technology properly. The Tailwind author clearly understands it, so I'm not targeting them... but they are supporting the people who don't see why the cascade is useful.
We have megabytes of code to create the impression of global consistency (components, style libraries, CSS-modules...) shipped to millions of users every hour. Browsers do that for us already. Embrace the simplicity of
button { border: foo; color: bar; } .callout button { color: aux; }
It's so clear, so elegant. The obsession with modularising everything, and then applying a DSL to get between the modules, makes the language's inherent convenience, elegance and clarity so much harder to work with that it boggles my mind.