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> Tailwind is the latest bootstrap

Bootstrap ships components. AFAIK you need another library if you want that in Tailwind.

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Here's the discussion we had about bootstrap 10 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11287413

(The underlying webpage is no longer around. But the HN discussion is.)

The underlying webpage: https://web.archive.org/web/20160325181748/http://adventureg...

>Bootstrap ships components.

I haven't used it in ages, but it used to be that Bootstrap also shipped drop-in CSS that would give you decent-looking styles on all the common elements, so a single minified style sheet would give you that classic "2010s startup" look.

I miss that 2010s startup look

That lobster font we all used for our startup names was legendary

lobster.ly

Bootstrap was originally built so internal Twitter apps had a decentish UI

But the point of the comment is that both Bootstrap and Tailwind are facilitators when you don't know/want/care about getting your hands dirty with CSS. Tailwind happens to be a little less abstract than Bootstrap, but still you're not fiddling with "low level" CSS.

That abstraction is what brings the "sameness" factor in play, though.

You absolutely have to know how CSS layout works to do anything even marginally complicated with Tailwind. It's not a replacement for building flexbox layouts or dealing with Z-indexes or knowing how to compose elements for different viewport sizes. All it's actually separating you from is (most of) the "Cascading" part and having your styles separate from you elements.

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