How I Accidentally Learned to Love CSS Again

I've had a love-hate relationship with CSS (like many developers.) But embracing the utility-first workflow with TailwindCSS has made a night-and-day difference when I'm developing new front-end experience on the web.

Check out this (very rough) deck I threw together for a 5-minute lightning talk at the Thunderplains 2019 conference in Oklahoma City.

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1. How I Accidentally Learned to Love CSS Again "What's the deal with TailwindCSS?" @matopher
2. How I used to feel writing CSS @matopher
3. ❌ Yet another Bootstrap copy & paste ❌ Hours of "coding by hand" @matopher
4. Reasons you'll ❤ (or at least not HATE) utility-first CSS @matopher
5. Instantly see changes on-the-fly (even in your browser!) @matopher
6. No more guessing..... ❌ font-size, ❌ colors, ❌ padding, margins, borders... @matopher
7. Kiss cascade hell good-bye ❌ ✅ @matopher
8. Kick media queries to the curb ' ❌ ✅ @matopher
9. Stack any combination of classes together ( * @matopher
10. One last thing: Customize anything you want @matopher