alt Hacker NewsLovable was a TailwindCSS recombinator, that’s it.
Lately it is more and more ShadCN as well.
TailwindCSS is a masterpiece but ironically doesn’t really get its fare share while “Build on top of TW” frameworks make money.
TailwindCSS is the final evolution after all other frameworks always had its benefits but also massive limitations.
BEM anyone?
TW is really elegant a new paradigm in its purest sense and brilliantly executed. No wholes could be poked in it for years and the extensibility shows, how brilliant it is.
Bootstrap will always be held dearly but it was about browser quirks etc first. Important milestone but stands no chance against TW.
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Am I the only one who doesn't like Tailwind? The way it totally pollutes your html makes it seem like, while the benefits are impressive, they're not worth the collateral damage.
personally I went back to bootstrap when LLM vibecoding took over. 10yo old patterns and even weak model can oneshot anything blindly, at scale. react+bootstrap is kind of cheat mode for frontend dev now with zero confusions about specific classes or api version changes of selectors and what have you, this is stupid solid after all this time.
As a dev manually typing I loved tailwind for sure, with LLMs not so much, and bootstrap in particular nails it the best IME. and yeah one can customize bootstrap quickly to look however it should, just tell your frontier LLM of choice your wishes.