--- title: Tailwind has won | daily.dev description: Tailwind has emerged as the preferred CSS framework due to its extensive styles, excellent documentation, and flexibility. It is used in combination with a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/tailwind-has-won-ewwjv5jl6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Tailwind has won | daily.dev og:description: Tailwind has emerged as the preferred CSS framework due to its extensive styles, excellent documentation, and flexibility. It is used in combination with a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/tailwind-has-won-ewwjv5jl6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Ewwjv5jl6.png og:image:alt: Tailwind has won og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Tailwind has won **[RUBYLAND](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyla)** · 3 min read · 65 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary Tailwind has emerged as the preferred CSS framework due to its extensive styles, excellent documentation, and flexibility. It is used in combination with a custom design system, allowing for easy style sharing across components. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@webry** · 7 upvotes > For anybody reading and new to Tailwind. Tailwind discourages the use of @apply for just making things look cleaner: [tailwindcss/avoiding-premature-abstraction](https://tailwindcss.com/docs/reusing-styles#avoiding-premature-abstraction) **@dilhanziriwardhana** · 5 upvotes > tailwind forever **@karadza** · 2 upvotes > I actually found tailwind is a great way to learn CSS in general! **@orlein** · 1 upvotes > Tailwind itself is great, and they are building even greater ecosystem from Tailwind. It's winning and it will win. **@vishv** · 1 upvotes > Yesss🥳 Big tailwind fan here. I made all my freelancing projects using Tailwind. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css), [#tailwind-css](https://daily.dev/tags/tailwind-css), [#bootstrap](https://daily.dev/tags/bootstrap) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/tailwind-has-won-ewwjv5jl6) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Tailwind has won","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/tailwind-has-won-ewwjv5jl6","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/tailwind-has-won-ewwjv5jl6"},"datePublished":"2024-03-26T01:23:30.545Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:20:02.615Z","description":"Tailwind has emerged as the preferred CSS framework due to its extensive styles, excellent documentation, and flexibility. 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