TailwindSQL

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The 12 most detailed of 14 comments. Each links to the original.

1. This is a brilliantly clever homage to the WTF/Minute concept

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components”

2. Cool project even if I wouldn’t touch this with a pole.

   Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components”

3. I love how utterly insane this idea is.

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components”

4. hopefully I never have to review someone unironically using something similar in production code

   Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components”

5. it's one commit with the commit message "wtf"

   Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components”

6. It's a joke. The entire thing is a joke

   Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components”

7. I think it's a joke proof of concept

   Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components”

8. License disallows production use

   Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components”

9. Certainly can result in some terribly inefficient access patterns, as there's no obvious syntax for joins.

   Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components”

10. seems to be vibe-coded using cursor and also the github issues are full of spam

    Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components”

11. SQL is not anything like CSS classes and cannot be composed in the same manner.

    Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components”

12. No LLM Prompts support in className? Useless.

    Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components”