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Direct link to the article Using CSS Cascade Layers to Manage Custom Styles in a Tailwind Project
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Using CSS Cascade Layers to Manage Custom Styles in a Tailwind Project

If a utility class only does one thing, chances are you don’t want it to be overridden by any styles coming from elsewhere. One approach is to use !important to be 100% certain the style will be applied, regardless of …

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Ollie Williams on Aug 24, 2022
Direct link to the article Adding Tailwind CSS to New and Existing WordPress Themes
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Adding Tailwind CSS to New and Existing WordPress Themes

In the 15 or so years since I started making WordPress websites, nothing has had more of an impact on my productivity — and my ability to enjoy front-end development — than adding Tailwind CSS to my workflow (and it …

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Greg Sullivan on Apr 20, 2022
Direct link to the article Building a Tennis Trivia App With Next.js and Netlify
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Building a Tennis Trivia App With Next.js and Netlify

Today we will be learning how to build a tennis trivia app using Next.js and Netlify. This technology stack has become my go-to on many projects. It allows for rapid development and easy deployment.

Without further ado let’s jump in!…

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Brenley Dueck on Oct 8, 2021
Direct link to the article “Disambiguating Tailwind”
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“Disambiguating Tailwind”

I appreciated this bit of nuance from a post on Viget’s blog:

There could be a whole article written about the many flavours of Tailwind, but broadly speaking those flavours are:

1. Stock tailwind, ie. no changes to the

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Chris Coyier on Aug 20, 2021
Direct link to the article If we’re gonna criticize utility-class frameworks, let’s be fair about it
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If we’re gonna criticize utility-class frameworks, let’s be fair about it

I’m not here to raise a shield protecting CSS utility frameworks. I don’t even particularly like the approach, myself, and nothing is above fair criticism. But fair is a key word there. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve …

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Chris Coyier on Jun 22, 2021
Direct link to the article How to Use Tailwind on a Svelte Site
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How to Use Tailwind on a Svelte Site

Let’s spin up a basic Svelte site and integrate Tailwind into it for styling. One advantage of working with Tailwind is that there isn’t any context switching going back and forth between HTML and CSS, since you’re applying styles as …

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Samson Omojola on Mar 12, 2021
Direct link to the article The Things I Add to Tailwind CSS Right Out of the Box
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The Things I Add to Tailwind CSS Right Out of the Box

In every project where I use Tailwind CSS, I end up adding something to it. Some of these things I add in every single project. I’ll share these with you, but I’m also curious what y’all are adding to …

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Greg Wolanski on Feb 26, 2021 (Updated on Sep 11, 2021)
Direct link to the article Why I love Tailwind
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Why I love Tailwind

Max Stoiber wrote some interesting notes about why he loves Tailwind. (Max created styled-components, so he has some skin in the styling methodology game.) There’s a lot of great history in this post about how Tailwind emerged and …

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Robin Rendle on Dec 11, 2020
Direct link to the article Tailwind versus BEM
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Tailwind versus BEM

Some really refreshing technological comparison writing from Eric Bailey. Like, ya know, everything in life, we don’t have to hate or love everything. Baby bear thinking, I like to say. There are benefits and drawbacks. Every single bullet point here …

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Chris Coyier on Nov 25, 2020
Direct link to the article Color Theming with CSS Custom Properties and Tailwind
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Color Theming with CSS Custom Properties and Tailwind

Custom properties not only enable us to make our code more efficient, but allow us to work some real magic with CSS too. One area where they have huge potential is theming. At Atomic Smash we use Tailwind CSS, …

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Michelle Barker on Nov 19, 2020 (Updated on Jan 25, 2021)
Direct link to the article An Eleventy Starter with Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js
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An Eleventy Starter with Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js

When I decided to try to base my current personal website on Eleventy, I didn’t want to reinvent the wheel: I tested all the Eleventy starters built with Tailwind CSS that I could find in Starter Projects from the …

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Greg Wolanski on Jul 10, 2020 (Updated on Jan 15, 2022)

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