🚀 Build the Same Button in Two Ways Same result. Different approach. 🎯 I created this simple visual to compare how we build a button using CSS and Tailwind 👇 🔵 CSS ✔ Write custom styles ✔ More control ✔ Clean structure 🟢 Tailwind CSS ✔ Utility-first classes ✔ Faster development ⚡ ✔ Everything in one place 💡 My takeaway: CSS gives flexibility, Tailwind gives speed 🚀 Both are powerful — it depends on your workflow. Which one do you prefer for building UI? 👇 #CSS #TailwindCSS #Frontend #WebDevelopment #Developers
Don't want to get in the which is better debate. I personally love Tailwind. What I think often gets missed in these posts is that Tailwind utility classes do not have to stay inline forever. You can extract them into reusable component classes when it makes sense.@layer components { .btn-primary { @apply bg-blue-500 text-white px-4 py-2 rounded-md transition hover:bg-blue-600 focus:outline-none focus:ring-2 focus:ring-blue-300 focus:ring-offset-2; } } To me, that is the best of both worlds. You still get the speed and flexibility of Tailwind, but you can also create clean, reusable classes where it helps. I also like that you can keep a lot of the pseudo states right there in the class definition without needing to jump around the stylesheet.
I don’t see how anyone with css fluency would be slower than the tailwind. I’m very fast at scss styling. Very slow at tailwind Tailwind reminds me of the first bootstrap. Was only ever meant for fast prototyping then suddenly it was everywhere
How tailwind was born Noobs first post on webdesign forum: -Help, the teacher in my web programming for beginners class says no one uses inline styling anymore, we must learn CSS! How do I make this example work? <h1 style="color:blue;">A Blue Heading</h1> <p style="color:red;">A red paragraph.</p> Bored jokers reply: - Easy! just do this and teacher will give you an A! <style> .color-blue {color: blue;} .color-red {color: red;} </style> <h1 class="color-blue">A Blue Heading</h1> <p class="color-red">A red paragraph.</p> Noob: Oooh, that is brilliant, I'm going to do that everywhere from now on! And scene!
Tailwind is garbage.
I used to like Tailwind when I was as learning web development. However, modern day vanilla CSS has gotten so good, and you get better separationn of concerns when your markup is clean and class names reflect domain intent rather. Any framework you’re using should be offering scoped css anyway and you can style and maintain components with scoped styling in normal css anyways.
CSS = control Tailwind = speed Both are powerful — depends on the use case 👌
Just style the <button> tag so you get styles and semantics. It's not more control, it's declarative and less compilation time down the road (thinking in terms of Enterprise apps). Any variant (primary, secondary, etc. gets a design token for the color difference).
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It's interesting that we can compare writing 4 lines of code to writing 4 lines of code differently and be like, "so much faster," lol.
While this is true for Out-Of-The-Box Tailwind, creating a custom Tailwind.css file with custom values, spacing, colors, typography and component identifiers, you get the best of both worlds without having to maintain massive CSS sheets.
I don't think it's faster, maybe better designes, but i prefer the CSS itself