They come with all sorts of predesigned components like buttons, cards, and alerts that might help you move quickly at first, but cause more pain than they cure when it comes time to make your site stand out with a custom design.
Tailwind is different.
Instead of opinionated predesigned components, Tailwind provides low-level utility classes that let you build completely custom designs without ever leaving your HTML.
If you're sick of fighting the framework, overriding unwanted styles, and battling specificity wars, Tailwind was made for you.
Every Tailwind utility also comes with responsive variants, making it extremely easy to build responsive interfaces without resorting to custom CSS.
Tailwind uses an intuitive
{screen}: prefix that makes it easy to notice responsive classes in your markup while keeping the original class name recognizable and intact.While you can do a lot with just utility classes, as a project grows it can be useful to codify common patterns into higher level abstractions.
Tailwind provides tools for extracting component classes from repeated utility patterns, making it easy to update multiple instances of a component from one place:
If it makes sense to be customizable, Tailwind lets you customize it. This includes colors, border sizes, font weights, spacing utilities, breakpoints, shadows, and tons more.
Tailwind is written in PostCSS and configured in JavaScript, which means you have the full power of a real programming language at your fingertips.
Tailwind is more than a CSS framework, it's an engine for creating design systems.