Adam Wathan - Tailwind CSS: It looks awful, and it works - Rails World 2023

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  • čas přidán 18. 10. 2023
  • In his talk at #RailsWorld, Tailwind CSS creator @AdamWathan of @TailwindLabs will explain why “separation of concerns” isn’t the right way to think about the relationship between HTML and CSS, why presentational class names lead to code that’s so much easier to maintain, as well as loads of tips, tricks, and best practices for getting the most out of Tailwind CSS.
    Links:
    rubyonrails.org/
    tailwindcss.com/
    #RailsWorld #RubyonRails #Rails #railwindcss #tailwind #frontend
    Thank you Dell APEX for sponsoring the editing and post-production of these videos. Visit them at: dell.com/APEX

Komentáře • 68

  • @ruslansteiger
    @ruslansteiger Před 9 měsíci +40

    Data attributes, data attributes, DATA ATTRIBUTES 😂

  • @simonswiss
    @simonswiss Před 9 měsíci +19

    Great talk, Adam 👊 Also holy crap, you look FIT AF 🔥

    • @MickaelChanrion
      @MickaelChanrion Před 9 měsíci

      Right?! 😮

    • @wkjagt
      @wkjagt Před 8 měsíci +9

      It's because he's been doing a lot of the heavy lifting for us.

    • @bezludny
      @bezludny Před 4 měsíci

      That's what happens when you write a lot of CSS classes.

  • @mirasmustimov1504
    @mirasmustimov1504 Před 9 měsíci +14

    Fantastic talk! I found myself enjoying styling html after I started using tailwind. And it is so productive! Love it!

  • @jp2886
    @jp2886 Před 8 měsíci +10

    Still not convinced - CSS in HTML so why not just do CSS? And classical Wathan - use divs and ps because why not to ignore semantic tags and screen-readers.

  • @JacquesvanWyk
    @JacquesvanWyk Před 9 měsíci +13

    Tailwind to me does not look ugly. Great job. Learn a few tricks here.

  • @PensarXYZ
    @PensarXYZ Před 9 měsíci +4

    wow! I will use Tailwind for my next project. Super cool demo.

  • @dream_emulator
    @dream_emulator Před 5 měsíci

    This is another GREAT presentation from this Rails day. Next time I got to be there!

  • @krisvanderven2367
    @krisvanderven2367 Před 8 měsíci +6

    I used it and I love and hate it.
    I love the utility classes, I hate the readability.
    I hate how you micro manage the browser, instead of let the browser do the heavy lifting.
    Probably works great in react where everything is a component, even your link and button. But when it's not, changing the color of a button or a link can be a little more hassle.

  • @switzerland
    @switzerland Před 9 měsíci +9

    For the edgy ones out there. I complement bootstrap with tailwind. Tailwind get it's own scope with tw- and I love it.

  • @kengreeff
    @kengreeff Před 8 měsíci

    So good! So many tricks in this one.

  • @DenisSoloshenko
    @DenisSoloshenko Před 8 měsíci

    Great talk!

  • @nabeel-shakeel
    @nabeel-shakeel Před 8 měsíci

    Nice talk! Really enjoyed it

  • @bastost
    @bastost Před 8 měsíci

    Tailwind is amazing! Thanks!

  • @SandyVanderbleek
    @SandyVanderbleek Před 7 měsíci +3

    what is he using in vscode for the browser preview? I can't find the extension

  • @mooktakim
    @mooktakim Před 8 měsíci +2

    Devs that grew up with React are fine with this. Inline all the things.

  • @tomasvalent3876
    @tomasvalent3876 Před 7 měsíci +1

    I thought I know Tailwind but every time I watch any of Adam's videos I learn something new 😮( he has a CZcams channel, I recommend checking it out)

  • @heyimamaker
    @heyimamaker Před 8 měsíci +3

    How else can you tell that Adam Wathan is Canadian?
    Only Canadians would get this reference "It looks awful, and it works"

  • @jeffhicks6068
    @jeffhicks6068 Před 8 měsíci +4

    What VSCode extension is used for the preview?

    • @codedusting
      @codedusting Před 8 měsíci

      Search tailwind in extension and look for the official tailwind intellisense one.

  • @dream_emulator
    @dream_emulator Před 5 měsíci

    👏👏👏

  • @FirstWeGolf
    @FirstWeGolf Před 8 měsíci

    Trying to use it but buggered if I can get it working

  • @atom6_
    @atom6_ Před 7 měsíci

    i am using vimesh style - which is fully compatible with tailwind, except it is a javascript library, only 30KB. Together with alpinejs, extremely powerful. No more "building" stuff (which i truly hate).

  • @xiaohui-dev
    @xiaohui-dev Před 9 měsíci +5

    What extension makes erb to be previewable?

    • @MassimoDeMarchiyolo
      @MassimoDeMarchiyolo Před 9 měsíci

      I was wondering that too!

    • @DaronSpence
      @DaronSpence Před 9 měsíci +2

      It's the built in VScode preview server. You can tell it to render any arbitrary URL and reload when a file changes.

    • @xiaohui-dev
      @xiaohui-dev Před 8 měsíci

      @@DaronSpence at 13:19 I noticed the command is Responsive Preview: Open URL, seems it's not a built in VScode which name is Simple Browser(I guess you were saying this)

    • @klanowicz
      @klanowicz Před 8 měsíci

      Please ping me of anyone will find it 🙏

  • @rajeshbudhathoki7888
    @rajeshbudhathoki7888 Před 9 měsíci

    Then I got here!

  • @sheldon98c
    @sheldon98c Před 6 měsíci

    When I started using flexbox and grid I feel like superman. Than I started using them in tailwind now I feel like Voldemort with infinite powers.

  • @wbjxfkwsklejfde34d
    @wbjxfkwsklejfde34d Před 8 měsíci +7

    Interesting talk. Some people find this awesome, and thats great. I've recently inherited a rails/tailwind client and its pretty bad. For example, the developer struggled to maintain consistency, because everything is inlined. Extracting page content into a cms requires deleting all the classes and applying the styles in css. Its more complicated to figure out what has broken when something goes wrong. Stylisticly I'm not a fan, because I dont want my templates extra complicated. Styling/CSS isnt the only thing that needs thinking about in a template and its much better for me to keep that away in a css file, making the erb templates more readable. Just my 2c.

    • @codedusting
      @codedusting Před 8 měsíci

      Pretty sure there is some vscode plugin or something out there that can help with this problem...

    • @wbjxfkwsklejfde34d
      @wbjxfkwsklejfde34d Před 7 měsíci

      @@codedusting not really no.

  • @Raubritterr222
    @Raubritterr222 Před 2 měsíci

    The best part of Tailwind -- you don't need to come up with those pesky names for CSS classes!

  • @_mball_
    @_mball_ Před 8 měsíci +4

    I get it.
    It's an awesome idea, but it still feels hard to maintain consistency.
    Partials are a good tool, and using this with WebComponents does make sense to me. View Helpers also feel like a good too.
    Still, I can't help but read the code and have to spend a lot of time parsing the sum total of CSS properties...
    There's an entirely new syntax of kind-of-but-not-quite class definitions.

  • @samuelkamau1550
    @samuelkamau1550 Před 9 měsíci +1

    and that's how i became third😄

  • @dorstox
    @dorstox Před 9 měsíci +7

    This modern frontend styling is making my head spin. I'm a Laravel developer and tried and failed to like tailwind so many times! This video did not win me over.
    Until something easier comes around, I'll be using bootstrap, bulma or better yet rely on frontend colleagues. It's gotten complicated and there is a lot to memorize, even with the fancy autocompletion of the IDE.

  • @dominuskelvin
    @dominuskelvin Před 9 měsíci +3

    I got here first 😌

  • @cristianbilu
    @cristianbilu Před 9 měsíci +6

    Talwindcss is ugly, but readable and declarative. And for me, that’s a win

  • @MrGeorgeTheCat
    @MrGeorgeTheCat Před 8 měsíci +1

    Why not just use the style attribute and have some helper classes for the magic. I would like to see all examples compared to that.

  • @erictwilegar
    @erictwilegar Před 9 měsíci +1

    We have trapped ourselves in a prison made of html and css.

  • @ScottHillson
    @ScottHillson Před 7 měsíci +6

    A horrible solution in need of a problem.

  • @TheCebulon
    @TheCebulon Před 4 měsíci +2

    I tried it - and I really, really don’t like it!

  • @alexeybobr4537
    @alexeybobr4537 Před 8 měsíci +1

    It looks like more brutal version of bootstrap for me. Not sure how to memorize all these classes.

    • @codedusting
      @codedusting Před 8 měsíci

      You don't. Vscode has a plugin so does prettier for sorting the classes for consistency and jetbrains has its own plugin.

  • @CraigMcNicholas
    @CraigMcNicholas Před 9 měsíci +8

    Thanks I hate it.

  • @mauriciomdea
    @mauriciomdea Před 7 měsíci +2

    No, thanks.

  • @jamescattanach1129
    @jamescattanach1129 Před 2 měsíci

    So rails goes to great lengths to provide maintainable html and you've just totally gone against the grain. Perhaps it would be better if you actually understood exactly what Rails is about before presenting this. It's definitely not for me

    • @railsofficial
      @railsofficial  Před 2 měsíci

      Hi James, please keep it friendly. Adam is well aware of what Rails is about. It might not be for you, but he was invited to speak at Rails World and we understood beforehand what his talk was going to be about. - Amanda, Rails Foundation

    • @jamescattanach1129
      @jamescattanach1129 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Nothing unfriendly to see here 😊

  • @penn_robotics
    @penn_robotics Před 9 měsíci +9

    Ah yes,
    ... certainly WAAAYY more readable than 💍💍💍🎪

    • @aniforprez
      @aniforprez Před 9 měsíci +6

      yes actually

    • @MickaelChanrion
      @MickaelChanrion Před 9 měsíci +7

      6 months later, tell me what css is applied to this without opening the css file that applies its style. Heck, if not even multiple files.
      Just one of the many benefits from using this mean tailwind! ☺️

    • @jl789nz
      @jl789nz Před 8 měsíci +2

      I don't think any one said it was more readable. Declarative naming also has it's own readability issues. I'm still not fully sold on Tailwind. It does help solve some issues, but it also comes with its own issues. It's trade offs all the way down.

    • @MickaelChanrion
      @MickaelChanrion Před 8 měsíci +1

      I'd say it's not readable but discoverable

    • @manojlds
      @manojlds Před 8 měsíci +1

      ​@@MickaelChanriondoesnt it make the html template itself worse. To grok it you need more cycles now.