Tailwind CSS

Picture this: it's a Tuesday morning in early 2025 and your team is staring at a 14-second hot reload on a Next.js 14 app. The Tailwind v3 JIT compiler is choking on a 240,000-line utility scan, your…

The article got pulled into a Slack debate last week between two engineers arguing about whether Tailwind was "real CSS." That conversation is a perfect proxy for the broader industry confusion: ther…