Why isn't there a Tailwinds equivalent for coding?

I use Tachyons, similar to Tailwind. It’s incredible. It’s just the right level of abstraction that allows you to write CSS without learning all of CSS.

Here’s an example. To write a padded, positioned box in CSS you might do something like this:

But, with Tachyons or Tailwind it looks something like this:

class=”pa4 f3”

Why isn’t there an equivalent to Tailwind for writing code?

An opinionated framework for CSS says, ok listen eveyrone wants:

• Responsive breakpoints
• Flexbox
• Easy box sizing & layout
• Nice typography sizing

An opinionated framework for coding might say, listen everyone needs:

• Login
• Storing data
• Retrieving data (with a cache)
• Rendering web pages
• Handling user input

What could this look like?

Well, consider this node function:

What if we could write this as something like this: