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Understanding the trade-offs of using Tailwind CSS
Tailwind helps you build web pages quickly with a utility-first approach — but is it right for your project? Here we explore its benefits and trade-offs.
In our experience, it can mean time-pressed developers choose to keep adding Tailwind classes rather than breaking up their components into smaller, systematic pieces. This can reduce unintended side effects, but it also bypasses one of CSS’s strengths: the ability to create flexible systems that adapt globally with minimal duplication. Similarly, approaches like styled-components or other CSS-in-JS libraries let you define styles with responsive and state-based capabilities in a flexible, programmatic way.
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