Last month I removed Tailwind from a side project. And you know what? Nothing broke.
That was more unexpected than I had anticipated. The build step I had been holding onto for years was actually unnecessary.
The platform grew up while we weren't looking
Something nobody really celebrated the release of, Vanilla CSS just went ahead and added the things that many of us were needing libraries to grab for us.
By the end of 2024, native CSS nesting was supported by all the major browsers. This means that you could use the code .card { .title { ... } } without the need for PostCSS, Sass, or any other preprocessor.
