I've tried Tailwind, and as a back end dev who only really understands the basics of CSS I find it a bit overwhelming and open ended. Seems it's designed for people with already a really deep knowledge of CSS who can could create beautiful components with it if they wanted but for whom hooking up the CSS to the components is painful. If you aren't good enough to create components with CSS in the first place, seems better to stick with things like bootstrap/bulma no?
Or you can use tailwind-ui components that look way more polished.
Another big advantage of the Tailwind approach is that you can copy any component you see on the web, paste it in your project, and it will look the same (unless custom classes are used). No need to hunt down and adapt the whole cascade of styles for each tag.
In that sense, Tailwind has some of the earlier-Internet charm where you learned by seeing what others were doing.
100%, absolutely. It’s not an abstraction of CSS; if you don’t know the language already then it won’t help. But if you do, then it improves your productivity dramatically.
If you’re in a scenario where you’re tasked with building out UI, but don’t have design or FE skills, my recommendation would be something like bootstrap or MUI.
