I landed on a nice, fast, fun build using Svelte, Vite and MDSVEX styled by WindiCSS
I’m impatient. I want things to run fast enough that I don’t have time to wonder what’s taking so long?
After all, if it’s just a few pages, why would it take nearly 10 minutes to build?
I’ve
Laziness Rules!
I prefer to be lazy and don’t want to come up with CSS names. I understand why, in some situations, you might prefer BEM style CSS but for me, Tailwind provides just the right amount of style, standard names, and flexibility within reasonable, functional limits.
Why TailwindCSS
With the ability to create a custom theme by setting up a few colors and otherwise have a concise, elegant(ish), responsive standard library of classes. 👨🍳💋
I’m a fan of the shorthand class naming convention and there’s always room to extend the theme as needed by adding custom abstractions.
Bottom line: Tailwind saves me time, except when it doesn’t…
Why WindiCSS
I was experiencing 20+ second wait on starting the dev site. While not bad, every theme level CSS edit had
What Apps/SSGs have I sampled?
- Gatsby
I never got Gatsby set up properly. I tried. It was slow to start even before adding Tailwind. I moved on. - 11ty
I wanted to love 11ty but it was slower than Hugo to build and troubling