I had that same initial reaction when I first read about Tailwind.
I am now a convert and although it's hard for me to articulate exactly where the magic lies, these are contributing factors:
- You can do the entire thing in HTML quickly, including media queries and pseudo-classes.
- The predefined sizes and other values are granular enough that you can do just about everything with them, but coarse enough that you often get it right in the first shot. In a sense, it's a little like going from drawing a chart on blank paper to grid paper.
- Tailwind intellisense in VSCode shows you the colors you likely need.
Each of these points are tiny and could easily be achieved in another way, but combined they have increased my personal joy in frontend development quite significantly.
I am now a convert and although it's hard for me to articulate exactly where the magic lies, these are contributing factors:
- You can do the entire thing in HTML quickly, including media queries and pseudo-classes.
- The predefined sizes and other values are granular enough that you can do just about everything with them, but coarse enough that you often get it right in the first shot. In a sense, it's a little like going from drawing a chart on blank paper to grid paper.
- Tailwind intellisense in VSCode shows you the colors you likely need.
Each of these points are tiny and could easily be achieved in another way, but combined they have increased my personal joy in frontend development quite significantly.