A scaleable alternative to Tailwind, BEM, and CSS-in-JS

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Maciek Palmowski

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Introducing Nue CSS, a scalable alternative to Tailwind, BEM, and CSS-in-JS. It offers a more maintainable and scalable way to write and structure CSS, making it easy to create consistent designs and simplify maintenance. Nue CSS aims to offload the burden from JavaScript developers and provide a clean separation of concerns for content creators, designers, and CSS developers.

Introducing Nue CSS

We're building the web framework of the future

Author here. The reason Tailwind is brought up so often is that I’m a fan of web standards and CSS in particular. And Tailwind is notorious for “cherry-pickingly bashing” CSS to say the least. I think they go even further than that and spread misinformation about how bad CSS really is. For example their slogan &quot;semantic class names” are the reason CSS is hard to maintain makes no sense at all.

Clearly using Tailwind to market their framework.

Dunking on Tailwind to promote your own framework, i don’t use tailwind, inline styling and i have no business and will never have no matter what form it takes, but sill