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The project is outdated. The grid system is not using any CSS3 feature. So, yeah, it's an old framework. If you want better features, you may go Tailwind CSS.

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I want a CSS framework. Tailwind is practically a JS framework at this point. It’s own custom build system & everything.

Personally? Not a fan. Wish it would have stuck to utility classes.

In what way is it a JS framework? There’s a build step because there’s so many possible utility class combinations that it would be size-prohibitive to ship them all.

Well, I wrote a functional CSS framework that is platform agnostic. It was built on sass. Post: https://www.minid.net/2019/4/7/the-css-utilitarian-methodolo..., github https://github.com/meerita/utilcss I am working a different project now, and now I evolved it to simply pure css files that i compile later with postcss and purge everything.

The latest and newest i did https://github.com/meerita/fcss

just drop into your react app, in this order:

root.css normalizer.css generics.css (all css classes) sm.css (mobile classes) md.css (mid desktop/iPad) lg.css (standard desktop) xl.css (large desktop) xxl for large large desktops

The usage is easy, lets build a grid:

Those are from the generics.css, but if you need 2 cols in mobile and 4 in desktop you can do it

The structure of every class is made using the css language, contrary to tailwind has its own syntax. it takes huge amount of time and mental effort to get it. With FCSS you learn the pattern and you can advance it or extend it.

I would like to work on one of your projects. Great job! I will get across via Github.

Thank you, all PR are welcome.

That is a very nicely constructed project!

CSS is so good these days you could just write it directly. I suspect that CSS bloat is not a real problem for most people. The value of Tailwind seems to be the ecosystem of styled components rather than Tailwind syntax itself.

Yes, I don't use Sass or LESS anymore.

Well, so is this. They both use PostCSS. But the JS is only in the build system. Tailwind does not deploy JS.

Right, didn’t mean to imply it did.

It's a perfect framework for building a static website, love Tachyons

Last release in 2018, last commit in 2021. Why was this posted?

Tachyons is feature complete for most people's/project's needs. It doesn't need to be updated. Every day we all use code that was last updated 10+ years ago without realising it.

Having said that we switched to Tailwind for a very specific reason: customisability. see: https://github.com/dwyl/learn-tailwind#what-about-tachyons

Still Tachyons is a perfectly valid and lightweight utility class based CSS library.

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