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Comment by omnimus

10 days ago

Sounds like no class manipulation will also make it impossible to do... front-end work?

Yes. If you are a keen Tailwind user and think "class names is the reason CSS doesn't scale" (as they say)

  • You can't say you don't "allow CSS-in-JS" and then not allow class manipulation. These two are quite literally the only ways you can dynamically style DOM elements.

    • @isqueiros I certainly can. Tailwind evangelist like you should look closer to web standards. Especially CSS. The points you make are simply absurd: feels like you have only worked with React and never understood the DOM. Time to learn!

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  • Sounds more like you have some deeper hate towards tailwind. I am no tailwind fanboy. I write direct no framework css all the time and have been doing frontend for more than a dacade.

    What i mean is that classes are used to save interactive state and if you have some component like dropdown or hamburger menu then adding class "open" is very common solution and for certain transitions you need multiple classes because of in-out durations. So what you do? Use custom attributes? Sure but then thats just semantic difference to using a class attribute.

    Looking at docs of your project you are doing both

      posts.forEach(post => post.classList.add('fade-in'))
      AND
      main.style.display = 'block'
    

    So whats with those claims?!