That buddy who said "just use CSS frameworks" set me back 3 weeks

My friend Mike kept pushing me to learn Tailwind first because it's faster. Tried building a simple portfolio site with it and spent 3 weeks fighting with classes and custom overrides. Finally went back to plain CSS and got the whole thing done in 5 days. Has anyone else found that frameworks just add more confusion at the start?

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ray_mitchell2d ago

Honestly, I've been exactly where you are. Frameworks like Tailwind make sense once you already understand CSS, but for a beginner they just add a whole extra layer of stuff to learn. You end up trying to learn two things at once and it's a mess. Plain CSS is the way to go at first because it teaches you the actual rules and how things really work. Once you got that foundation down, then picking up a framework feels like a shortcut instead of a puzzle you can't solve. Glad you went back to basics, you probably learned way more in those 5 days than you did in the 3 weeks fighting classes.

ray3242d ago

Read somewhere that coding bootcamps actually push plain CSS first for this exact reason.