So you have heard about the Tailwind CSS and want to incorporate into your new project. But those inline styles look so polluted - they look similar to the old "style="font-size: 12px; color: green; font-style: italics" stuff we are told to avoid. What is going on here? Are we going back?? The Problem with Plain CSS Classes Before you run the other way, I think we have all encounter this problem maintaining a large codebase: /* Developer A wrote this 2 years ago */ .card-variant-3 { background-c