There and Back Again: My Journey Into (And Out Of) Tailwind
I’ve been using the Tailwind CSS Framework for about two and a half years (as of July 2025) for my personal projects, and I used it professionally in my time at unstructured as well. In all, I think it’s a good thing. However, I don’t find myself thinking I’d use it for new projects at this point: I believe I have outgrown it. Here is a short story.
Tailwind as Style Guide Tailwind has a set of that encourages a specific styling worldview that gets you a “modern” looking UI which doesn’t feel offensive versus any other site on the internet. The pre-baked color choices and reasonable framing around layout options like columns give you a framework (ha!) within which to work and make a decent site. It’s less greenfield than a blank page and an open documentation tab.