# My experience with TailwindCSS

When I started writing HTML, my website looked something like this
![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1669757612024/3dekb50Q9.png align="left")
with some iframe embeds placed randomly (I was proud of it). I've then learnt css and my webistes started to be more art pieces than markup. one day, I had the idea to start using bootstrap and I liked it (for 22 minutes, yes, this is the real time...). After realizing I couldn't bother using bootstrap to create websites, I started learning the fundamentals of responsive layout and, the first sites I made turned out pretty well. One day, a friend of mine recommended me TailwindCSS: it was still in v1 and I found the configuration pretty annoying, but, the developer experience was the best I've had in a long while. I enjoied using it, until I started learning react and, with tailwind, the components were hard to write (className, I am talking to you) and to read (one million classes, I am talking to you...). I tried using `@apply` but I found it annoying to use so, after some time, I resorted in using plain css or sass and I like it (maybe because I can copy-paste it from stackoverflow 😳). With this, I am *maybe* starting to write blog posts (If I have time and I enjoy it).