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WHY TAILWIND ISN’T FOR ME

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Tailwind CSS is widely popular in web development today, but there are some notable downsides to it. It leads to ugly-looking HTML. The use of @apply in Tailwind is incompatible with other CSS frameworks, leading to vendor lock-in. Tailwind also encourages the use of `div` and `span` tags, whereas the modern web supports a much larger range of expressive custom elements and attributes.