Almost none of that is specific to Tailwind though, you can take any design system in CSS with or without JS and make the same argument right?

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Aeolos 15 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The poster I responded to, specifically asked for how to implement this in tailwind, with a worry about "do you really style each component separately for dark mode? Repeating the same modifiers over and over?"

I simply answered his question - tailwind is indeed just plain old CSS with a more ergonomic DX.

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ffsm8 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

What do you think tailwind is?

It's a utility to generate deduped/treeshacken css classes - according to a config file the parent mentioned

It's not some grand framework or something.

It's literally doing exactly what the grand parent said. Define root css variables, and generate the applicable/used css classes that were used in the code

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throwaway9an1zx 44 minutes ago | parent [-]

I use Tailwind for work and hobby projects and what you said is exactly what I think Tailwind is and why I use it.

I don’t understand where the disagreement is. I was only pointing out a lot of the “magic” from Tailwind’s abstraction isn’t as magical as the GP you referred to implies.

	▲	ffsm8 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I see, I must've misunderstood your comment earlier.