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Tailwind CSS

Every number here is named for what it counts. How each one is measured is on the methodology page.

Fig. 1
Tailwind CSS's share of Hacker News and Lobsters stories, by month
00.250.50.751AprMayJunJulAugSept
Tailwind CSS%

Distinct stories naming the tool, as a percentage of all stories naming any tracked tool. Complete months only.

Fig. 2
New GitHub repos a week: tailwindcss
05001000150020006 Jul20 Jul10 Aug24 Aug14 Sept5 Oct19 Oct
tailwindcss

Each week's median of the daily snapshots, so one glitched snapshot cannot move the line. Complete weeks only.

Fig. 3
npm downloads a week: tailwindcss
050.0M100.0M150.0M200.0M6 Jul20 Jul3 Aug17 Aug31 Aug14 Sept28 Sept12 Oct19 Oct
tailwindcss

Each week's median of the daily snapshots, so one glitched snapshot cannot move the line. Complete weeks only.

Job ads naming it, by week

Postings in Adzuna's UK IT feed and on RemoteOK whose title or description names Tailwind CSS. Small counts: read the direction, not the rate.

  1. 10 Aug 0
  2. 17 Aug 0
  3. 24 Aug 0
  4. 31 Aug 0
  5. 7 Sept 0
  6. 14 Sept 0
  7. 21 Sept 1
  8. 28 Sept 1
  9. 5 Oct 1
  10. 12 Oct 1
  11. 19 Oct 1
  12. 26 Oct 0

Biggest stories, last 90 days

  1. Shopify acquires Tailwind1.1K pts · 445 comments · 9 Sept
  2. I don't recommend Tailwind CSS159 pts · 159 comments · 2 Aug
  3. I used to hate Tailwind CSS. Here's what changed my mind4 pts · 1 comments · 29 Aug
  4. Show HN: Nikala UI – UI Component Library for SolidJS and Tailwind CSS v43 pts · 0 comments · 17 Aug
  5. Show HN: WindStrap – Bootstrap 5.3.8 to Tailwind CSS Using DeepSeek V4 Flash2 pts · 1 comments · 12 Aug
  6. Tailwind CSS: Rapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTML1 pts · 0 comments · 14 Aug
  7. Ask HN: Does AI do better with CSS or Tailwind?1 pts · 0 comments · 7 Oct
  8. Running Tailwind's engine against a shadow root, without a build step1 pts · 0 comments · 22 Sept

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