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Silly premise and vapid article. Tailwind 'won' in the same way Bootstrap 'won', i.e. it was popular for a time. $10 says Tailwind will be the Bootstrap of 2027.

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Well also bootstrap "died" in the most honorable way possible, it got antiquated by the CSS standard implementing flex and grids (the original specification was based on XUL though and not bootstrap - https://medium.com/@BennyOgidan/history-of-css-grid-and-css-...)

Kind of the same with jquery (although it took quite a lot of new stuff...)

I feel like Tailwind won't get that

Yeah the Bootstrap story is hardly one of the frontend world changing tastes, it was the standard forever and everything else at the time was copying it. Some key fundamentals of how CSS is written in the 2020s changed quite a bit as did how people wrote HTML (as the author alludes to using smaller component UIs with build systems replaced big HTML files and big CSS files). It was good time for a rethink IMO.

Components UI systems are not going away, even as we move back to static heavy sites and minimizing JS where ever possible.

But this is how all victories work, whether it's a war or a sports competition or market share. You get to be the undisputed champion for a while, until eventually someone else comes along and beats you, or circumstances change so that your victory doesn't matter so much any more. "But Tailwind was only the dominant CSS framework for most of a decade" is not much of a criticism.

That is the point. Tailwind is just CSS. And like the article says, you can copy paste designs from examples.

The key difference between Bootstrap and Tailwind is that Tailwind designs are distributed. So Bootstrap designs feel like Bootstrap designs, while for Tailwind you can keep having new and fresh designs from different sources.

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