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

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  • Опубліковано 18 жов 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

КОМЕНТАРІ • 68

  • @ruslansteiger
    @ruslansteiger 9 місяців тому +40

    Data attributes, data attributes, DATA ATTRIBUTES 😂

  • @simonswiss
    @simonswiss 9 місяців тому +20

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

    • @MickaelChanrion
      @MickaelChanrion 9 місяців тому

      Right?! 😮

    • @wkjagt
      @wkjagt 8 місяців тому +9

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

    • @bezludny
      @bezludny 5 місяців тому

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

  • @mirasmustimov1504
    @mirasmustimov1504 9 місяців тому +15

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

  • @JacquesvanWyk
    @JacquesvanWyk 9 місяців тому +13

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

  • @jp2886
    @jp2886 9 місяців тому +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.

  • @dream_emulator
    @dream_emulator 5 місяців тому +1

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

  • @PensarXYZ
    @PensarXYZ 9 місяців тому +4

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

  • @tomasvalent3876
    @tomasvalent3876 7 місяців тому +2

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

  • @kengreeff
    @kengreeff 9 місяців тому

    So good! So many tricks in this one.

  • @SandyVanderbleek
    @SandyVanderbleek 7 місяців тому +3

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

  • @krisvanderven2367
    @krisvanderven2367 9 місяців тому +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.

  • @nabeel-shakeel
    @nabeel-shakeel 8 місяців тому

    Nice talk! Really enjoyed it

  • @switzerland
    @switzerland 9 місяців тому +9

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

  • @DenisSoloshenko
    @DenisSoloshenko 8 місяців тому

    Great talk!

  • @bastost
    @bastost 8 місяців тому

    Tailwind is amazing! Thanks!

  • @FirstWeGolf
    @FirstWeGolf 9 місяців тому

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

  • @jeffhicks6068
    @jeffhicks6068 8 місяців тому +5

    What VSCode extension is used for the preview?

    • @codedusting
      @codedusting 8 місяців тому

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

  • @mooktakim
    @mooktakim 8 місяців тому +2

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

  • @heyimamaker
    @heyimamaker 9 місяців тому +3

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

  • @xiaohui-dev
    @xiaohui-dev 9 місяців тому +5

    What extension makes erb to be previewable?

    • @MassimoDeMarchiyolo
      @MassimoDeMarchiyolo 9 місяців тому

      I was wondering that too!

    • @DaronSpence
      @DaronSpence 9 місяців тому +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 9 місяців тому

      @@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 9 місяців тому

      Please ping me of anyone will find it 🙏

  • @dream_emulator
    @dream_emulator 5 місяців тому

    👏👏👏

  • @atom6_
    @atom6_ 7 місяців тому

    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).

  • @rajeshbudhathoki7888
    @rajeshbudhathoki7888 9 місяців тому

    Then I got here!

  • @sheldon98c
    @sheldon98c 7 місяців тому

    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.

  • @_mball_
    @_mball_ 8 місяців тому +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.

  • @Raubritterr222
    @Raubritterr222 3 місяці тому

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

  • @wbjxfkwsklejfde34d
    @wbjxfkwsklejfde34d 8 місяців тому +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 8 місяців тому

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

    • @wbjxfkwsklejfde34d
      @wbjxfkwsklejfde34d 8 місяців тому

      @@codedusting not really no.

  • @samuelkamau1550
    @samuelkamau1550 9 місяців тому +1

    and that's how i became third😄

    • @Alex-lu4po
      @Alex-lu4po 9 місяців тому +1

      To me you are first.

  • @dominuskelvin
    @dominuskelvin 9 місяців тому +3

    I got here first 😌

  • @dorstox
    @dorstox 9 місяців тому +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.

    • @FranciscoQuintero
      @FranciscoQuintero 9 місяців тому +4

      It's fine. You use what makes you most productive.

  • @MrGeorgeTheCat
    @MrGeorgeTheCat 9 місяців тому +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.

  • @cristianbilu
    @cristianbilu 9 місяців тому +6

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

  • @erictwilegar
    @erictwilegar 9 місяців тому +1

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

  • @alexeybobr4537
    @alexeybobr4537 9 місяців тому +1

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

    • @codedusting
      @codedusting 8 місяців тому

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

  • @ScottHillson
    @ScottHillson 7 місяців тому +6

    A horrible solution in need of a problem.

  • @CraigMcNicholas
    @CraigMcNicholas 9 місяців тому +8

    Thanks I hate it.

  • @TheCebulon
    @TheCebulon 4 місяці тому +2

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

  • @mauriciomdea
    @mauriciomdea 7 місяців тому +2

    No, thanks.

  • @jamescattanach1129
    @jamescattanach1129 2 місяці тому

    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  2 місяці тому

      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 2 місяці тому +1

      Nothing unfriendly to see here 😊

  • @penn_robotics
    @penn_robotics 9 місяців тому +9

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

    • @aniforprez
      @aniforprez 9 місяців тому +6

      yes actually

    • @MickaelChanrion
      @MickaelChanrion 9 місяців тому +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 9 місяців тому +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 9 місяців тому +1

      I'd say it's not readable but discoverable

    • @manojlds
      @manojlds 9 місяців тому +1

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