--- title: Why Tailwind CSS Won | daily.dev description: Tailwind CSS has become synonymous to some degree with the UI components shipped through Tailwind UI (which is a UI framework) It replaces a generation of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-tailwind-css-won-ley4dakbz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why Tailwind CSS Won | daily.dev og:description: Tailwind CSS has become synonymous to some degree with the UI components shipped through Tailwind UI (which is a UI framework) It replaces a generation of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-tailwind-css-won-ley4dakbz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lEy4Dakbz.png og:image:alt: Why Tailwind CSS 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. # Why Tailwind CSS Won **[Matt Rickard](https://daily.dev/sources/mattrickard)** · 2 min read · 259 upvotes · 26 comments ## Summary Tailwind CSS has become synonymous to some degree with the UI components shipped through Tailwind UI (which is a UI framework) It replaces a generation of sites built with Twitter Bootstrap. Tailwind is tree-shaken by default and doesn’t have its own ideas of grids or flexboxes. ## 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. **@triptych** · 17 upvotes > I think the web is big enough for folks who are fans of Tailwind, and for folks who are not ( like me ) so - feel free to use it, but I will stick with vanilla CSS. **@hamatoyogi** · 8 upvotes > Not a bad take... Also: > https://www.builder.io/blog/the-tailwind-css-drama-your-users-don't-care-about **@der\_daniel** · 6 upvotes > Also the guys at tailwind are extremely based on what their objectives are **@ghost** · 5 upvotes > UnoCSS by the creator of VueUse and the NuxtDevtools is better. **@noricode** · 5 upvotes > Is this a sponsored post??, because I am seeing more and more people abandon tailwind in favor or vanilla CSS3 or hybrid use. > the end of CSS-in-JS is the same phenomenon as when the trendy preprocessor fever died (member stylus, postCSS, compass, crush,switch, clay, ect? ) ## 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 --- Tags: [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css), [#html](https://daily.dev/tags/html), [#tailwind-css](https://daily.dev/tags/tailwind-css), [#bootstrap](https://daily.dev/tags/bootstrap) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/why-tailwind-css-won-ley4dakbz) ```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":"Why Tailwind CSS Won","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-tailwind-css-won-ley4dakbz","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-tailwind-css-won-ley4dakbz"},"datePublished":"2023-08-14T13:35:58.020Z","dateModified":"2023-08-14T13:35:45.034Z","description":"Tailwind CSS has become synonymous to some degree with the UI components shipped through Tailwind UI (which is a UI framework) It replaces a generation of...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c7b3829a1d70febc852089548f538913?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c7b3829a1d70febc852089548f538913?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Matt Rickard","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Matt Rickard","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/ab45899954994f6ba0d5ede282d3f27a","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/mattrickard"},"commentCount":26,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-tailwind-css-won-ley4dakbz","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":259},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":26}],"keywords":"css,html,tailwind-css,bootstrap","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Matt Rickard","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/mattrickard"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Why Tailwind CSS Won"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-tailwind-css-won-ley4dakbz","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"I think the web is big enough for folks who are fans of Tailwind, and for folks who are not ( like me ) so - 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