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Comment by leandot | Hacker News Reader

I've discovered that https://tailwindcss.com/docs/what-is-tailwind/ fits me best as a way to do UX/UI as a backend person. Feels like functional programming with well-defined, limited number of building blocks, whereas normal CSS styling always seemed like endless amount of options. Also the docs are really great with some ready-made patterns. No idea if it is for everyone but I enjoy it right now.

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Frameworks like these are terrible for your document size and page load performance once your project scales.

Why would you write anything that can't scale if you can avoid it? Whether or not you're looking to turn your pet project into a SAAS business is a moot point when you can get scalability for free with other approaches.

How? This is a tiny functional CSS library.

It seems verbose yes, but since everything gets minified + gzipped anyway and there is no additional js it is actually quite light in the end. If the parent has difficulties with UX/UI, it might help to look at it from a different angle.

Because the overwhelming majority of side projects will never need to scale.

Getting something shipped matters more.

I mean, with something like PurifyCSS or some other 'css tree shaker', something like this is perfect.

On an (albeit fairly simple) app that I'm building, my CSS file, using Tailwind, is 6.1kb gziped. I think that's pretty reasonable.

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