Tailwind CSS is one of the most popular and useful tool (CSS framework) used by web developers across the world. Today I'll be sharing its history in nutshell.

Those days in 2017, during the Halloween night Tailwind was released by Adam Wathan. In 2015 Adam started a side project named "DIGEST" along with his business partner Stev. They took the whole week to decide which tech stack should be used. Then they finally decided to use Bootstrap 4 which arrived recently. But they both had a problem. The problem was, that they wanted to use LESS & Bootstrap 4 had eliminated LESS. Version 4 onwards this happened in Bootstrap because Bootstrap wanted to use SASS from that time.

Adam didn't like SASS at all. So after a lot of brainstorming and discussion they made decision that we'll make our own CSS with the help of LESS and for the rest we'll use Bootstrap. And in some ways, they started working in Digest. NOW, Whenever they wanted to use CSS they used to copy the LESS files made in digest and used to bring it in the new project. We all sometimes start a new project by using our old project as a template. Adam was also doing something like that.

He copied the LESS files from Digest project and started putting them in his new projects. Adam realised something in this process. He thought I'm copying these LESS files repeatedly why not make something separately for these files which I'm copying. Files which he was copying he noticed something in them. He said that from the files which he was copying, utility classes was the most that was being reused. And the rest project specific classes and the project specific data wasn't being used much by him.

He said if he makes a utility first tool to use CSS then it'll be useful for him. After few years of this, Adam & Stev were working on project named "KITE". They were making it while streaming on YouTube. While streaming on YouTube, Peoples suggested them on the comments that you can release it as a framework. So that it'll be helpful for us as well. The utility first classes which you copy from the old LESS files provide us with those as a framework. Adam & Steve thought this idea wasn't bad.

And that's when Tailwind was born. A such a great and amazing tool, a such a utility first framework which has become quite popular today. Steve & Adam really worked hard on this framework. They raise many internal version of this. Finally in 13 May 2019 they released a stable version of this for the entire world. Now whole works could use this framework.