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A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

39 mentions on Hacker News by 37 people: 9 stories, 30 comments · first 2019-02-26 · latest 2026-09-15

Mentions per year 39 mentions · busiest year 2021 (9)
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  1. …they just don't mention it. [0] https://tailwindcss.com/docs/styling-with-utility-classes#ma... [1] https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/7651...
  2. …built on top of Tailwind that you can actually sell so you have something to eat tomorrow. [0]: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/releases [1]: https://web.dev/blog [2]: https://developer.chrome.com/new
    comment by Culonavirus · 2026-01-09 · in Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
  3. TIL they use Bun: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/commit/1e949af9a...
  4. …out if the core product justifies this scale. I would say that, more likely than not, it isn't. https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/compare/main%40%...
  5. Sounds like 3: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/1467...
  6. https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/1467... In this comment, he says that he had to lay off 3 people. Not sure if this means it was him+4engs and now it’s just him+1eng or if he’s including himself and he’s working…
  7. More details: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/1467... https://x.com/adamwathan/status/2008909129591443925 https://adams-morning-walk.transistor.fm/episodes/we-had-six...
  8. …clean cross-browser base to work with (button will look like text until you add your styling). [1]: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/blob/main/packag...
    comment by simjnd · 2025-10-25 · in Normalize.css
  9. …in one line that you always forget where you are. Incidentally, also the top-voted discussion: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/7763
    comment by lenkite · 2025-07-22 · in CSS's problems are Tailwind's problems
  10. Looks like the contain utility has been added here [1] and is also available in v4. [1]: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/12993
    comment by hanneskt · 2024-11-22 · in Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1
  11. …Unfortunately the link in their beta docs is buried, and also broken -- the correct link is here: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/releases/
    comment by jph00 · 2024-11-22 · in Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1
  12. …CSS CLI tool for keeping things lean. Sadly the download link from the "Getting Started" page https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/releases/tag/v4.... is broken. Shows that the "bloated" way of doing things is now the norm.
    comment by lenkite · 2024-11-22 · in Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1
  13. I love how easy it is to add a PWA selector: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/6755
    comment by philip1209 · 2024-04-26 · in Gems of Tailwind CSS
  14. …or override its styles. Also, this happened on a from scratch codebase without any funny css. https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/issues/6602
  15. 74K stars on github is _some_ evidence. https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss
  16. …along axes other than Z, which is required for 3D transforms. Here's a two year old issue on it: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/3521 Another is attribute selector support. They have many common ones, but to do…
    comment by jakelazaroff · 2023-08-02 · in Tailwind and the death of web craftsmanship
  17. …discussion, but keep in mind that multi-line-classes worked at some point and now just don't: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/7763 ) So for prettier, it wasn't just "format your code our way or else" - which is a…
    comment by lvncelot · 2023-07-08 · in ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails
  18. …appealing for me. Just saw this proposal: "Add the option to hide class attribute in vscode plugin" https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/7922
    comment by vlod · 2022-06-10 · in Play with TailwindCSS in the Browser
  19. Arbitrary Variants looks a bit crazy to me (I haven't used it yet though): https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/8299
    comment by config_yml · 2022-06-10 · in Play with TailwindCSS in the Browser
  20. Looks like TW 2.2 from June. It wasn't in the initial JIT release in 2.1. https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/releases/tag/v2....
    comment by dcre · 2021-12-09 · in Tailwind CSS v3.0
  21. Here is the Upgrade Guide[0] and the Changelog[1] 0: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/upgrade-guide 1: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/blob/master/CHAN...
    comment by yurishimo · 2021-12-09 · in Tailwind CSS v3.0
  22. …fast as is now; so fast in fact, that you can now run it in on a CDN build for prototyping/MVP. https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/releases/tag/v3....
    comment by yurishimo · 2021-11-05 · in Goodbye CSS Modules, Hello TailwindCSS
  23. …CSS [1], but wanted to point out that it’s not possible with just a style attribute. :-) [1] https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/graphs/contribut...
    comment by hanspagel · 2021-11-04 · in Goodbye CSS Modules, Hello TailwindCSS
  24. …and it has been around for 4 years ( https://adamwathan.me/going-full-time-on-tailwind-css/ , https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/commit/421c1b0d7... ) It was preceded by other similar frameworks, too. It's a pattern some people…
  25. …https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse https://github.com/evanw/esbuild https://github.com/figma https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy…
  26. …for side projects. Nowadays I use Bulma for everything p.s. I still don't get the hype around https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    comment by stanislavb · 2021-01-18 · in Ask HN: What is your CSS framework of choice?
  27. …category to the Tailwind CSS discussions area on GitHub — maybe other projects can do the same: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/cate... Managing OSS stuff really is brutal, and the amount of negative stuff you hear…
    comment by adamwathan · 2020-12-27 · in Just Wanted to Say Thanks
  28. …wish they would filter, organize and promote all the neat tools that there are on tailwindui. [1]: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/1891
    comment by sam_goody · 2020-11-18 · in TailwindCSS v2.0
  29. tailwind UI != the tailwind CSS framework. The CSS framework is licensed under MIT[1]. [1]: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/blob/master/LICE...
  30. …1.7 version that makes this process even easier given you don't need to split up pseudo classes https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/2159 .