ARTICLE AD BOX
I recently started an internship where the team asked me to use SCSS. What caught my attention was that my mentor described the stack as:
SCSS (main styling)
Tailwind CSS (utility classes)
In practice, though, we mostly end up using only SCSS.
I really like the idea of combining SCSS and Tailwind CSS, but it made me wonder how common this setup is in the current industry. Most of the React + SCSS resources I find are a few years old, while newer content seems to focus more on Tailwind or CSS‑in‑JS.
My questions are:
Is SCSS still widely used in modern React projects, or is it being replaced by Tailwind/CSS‑in‑JS?
Does it make sense to invest time learning SCSS deeply in 2026, or should I focus more on Tailwind and newer styling approaches?
For context: I am building React applications and currently use SCSS modules for component styling, with Tailwind mostly for layout and small utility tweaks.
