On: Why Tailwind CSS Won

[seedboot]

Hopefully your link will be a component, so you only need replace one line anyway.

Then again if your styles are abstracted to a component, your CSS framework is irrelevant!

[xigoi → seedboot]

Why would you use a component for something that's already a built-in HTML element?

[bryanrasmussen → xigoi]

I don't know, but a consulting company saddled us with a monstrosity that does exactly this.

Maybe it's some sort of lock-in feature.

[seedboot → xigoi]

One example is if I was using react it would be used to encapsulate a react-router Link and an anchor tag in a component, and use props to differentiate between inbound and outbound links.

[peferron → xigoi]

Why would you style an anchor element when your browser already has default styles for it?

[xigoi → peferron]

Because you want it to look different, such as the color being consistent with the rest of your website?