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CSS vs Tailwind

Do you need good CSS knowledge in order to use Tailwind CSS, or can you get by if you just know the basics?

(By getting by, I mean, can you create pretty good websites / applications?)

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    Just start doing youll get better over buddy❤

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    I've built my personal website using TailwindCSS with almost no experience in CSS, so I'm of the opinion that everyone can use it.

    The #1 most useful thing is the search feature on Tailwindcss.com - because it's filled with examples. Good luck ;)

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    Tailwind is really jus CSS broken down into bite size chunks, so it really helps to know what the core CSS properties are doing behind the scenes if you want to be productive. I'm a big fan because its allows me to move quickly and create incredibly small css file sizes (when used in combination with purgeCSS).

    But if you want to help creating great interfaces, it recommend going with their pre-built UI components (https://tailwindui.com) OR something more traditional like Bootstrap: (https://getbootstrap.com). Both of these options hide a lot of the complexity of CSS under the hood and allow to to just drop in pre-built components.

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    I'd always recommend learning the basics. You can spend a few hours learning some basic CSS like selectors, borders, colours, fonts, background and some intermediate concepts like flexbox and pseudo classes like :hover, :active etc.
    Once you know that, you'll be pretty comfortable using Tailwind or other CSS framework and whenever you use a framework class that does something you dont understand, check which CSS properties are being applied using your browser dev tools and try to understand them.

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    I'm moving to it soon when I work on our next email subscription website....hearing very good things and looks damn awesome

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    I only know basics of CSS, and I love Tailwind CSS , I do amazing things so easily , it is so fun . You should try now!! , look for awesome react on google, you will find a lot of tutorials and components to use it.

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    I think everyone can use it, but because it's really just a shorthand for CSS, you'll need to do all of the design work yourself. Check out https://github.com/milesmcc/a17t/ for a library that makes this a bit easier. (Full disclosure: it's mine!)

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