Tailwind CSS is the new ubiquitous frontend framework. It replaces a generation of sites built with Twitter Bootstrap. However, Tailwind CSS is not a UI framework itself but has become synonymous to some degree with the UI components shipped through Tailwind UI (which is a UI framework). Why did Tailwind CSS become so popular? A few hypotheses:

• No context switching from application logic. The tagline on the website reads, “Rapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTML.” That’s partly true, but few developers are writing HTML (i