Is Tailwind the right choice?

[laymonage]

When starting this project, I chose Tailwind for a few reasons:

• I love it
• I'm already familiar with it, so I don't need the extra time to learn other frameworks
• I want to see how far I can get by creating my own styles (and a few other small libraries, e.g. github-syntax-light) to match GitHub's design.

However, when I started adding support for themes and other complex Markdown features (e.g. permalink code snippets), it started to become trickier to apply the correct style. It's not Tailwind's fault, it's just that the generated HTML is optimized for use with @primer's utilities, e.g. @primer/components, @primer/css, @primer/primitives.

Downsides to switching the frameworks/libraries used are:

• I need more time to learn @primer stuff
• I need time to rework the components
• Increased bundle size.
  I tried just including @primer/css and it increased the build output by tens of kilobytes. Considering that the current size is only ~30KB and we managed to get it running quite beautifully, I really want to keep it small.

[laymonage]

I still think Tailwind is okay to use, now that we have a custom solution that's more in sync with @primer/css.