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How to style React applications while the world burns around us
<p>What tools would you reach for today to style the UI for a <a href='https://medium.com/all-the-things/the-trouble-with-saas-279694551b25'>hyper-customizable app</a>? I just spent an unreasonable amount of time trying to understand the current landscape and settle on the perfect framework. I was surprised by what I found.</p>
But I found myself unwilling to proceed, fundamentally dissatisfied with basically every approach I’d ever used: Every UI framework, every component library, every CSS methodology – they all seemed to fall short of doing what I needed, and I didn’t want to just pick something familiar and move on. As for the “separation of concerns” encouraged by the Zen Garden, I’m not sure it was ever conceptually coherent: Your CSS and your markup are tightly coupled, because there’s presentation-level information encoded in the structure of your HTML – the order things are in, the way they’re nested. A few components are free, but full access requires a paid account; this in turn supports ongoing development of the open-source framework, and has allowed Adam Wathan to quit his day job and work on Tailwind full-time.
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