Tailwind CSS After Three Years

I was sceptical of Tailwind for a long time. The class lists looked ugly, the learning curve looked weird, and 'utility-first' sounded like a fancy way of saying 'inline styles'.

Three years and 30+ projects later, I work in it without thinking, and reach for any other styling system only when I have a specific reason to.

What changed me wasn't a single feature. It was the realisation that 'where do I write this class?' had stopped being a question I had to answer. The class lives next to the markup. That's the whole pitch.