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Tailwind CSS: Craft Beautiful, Flexible, and Responsive Designs

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Ivaylo Gerchev

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Last Updated

3 May 2022

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Get a rapid introduction to Tailwind, the utility-first CSS framework, and start building sites with it today!

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Get a rapid introduction to Tailwind, the utility-first CSS framework, and start building sites with it today!

For many years, component-based frameworks, like Bootstrap, were the de facto standard for building websites quickly and easily. But all this magic comes with a price. Without serious customization, sites built with such frameworks look similar to each other. And customization is a real pain in the neck for anyone who wants to build something more complex or creative. Component-based styles are easy to implement, but inflexible and confined to certain boundaries. Solving specificity issues while trying to override the default styles of a particular framework isn’t a fun and productive job. Tailwind is a utility-first framework that is built with low-level functionality in mind. As you’ll see in this book, utility classes offer much more power and flexibility than component classes. You’ll learn:

  • Component vs utility classes, and the pros and cons of each
  • Tailwind basics (layout, typography, responsive web design, colors, and more)
  • Creating your own Tailwind components
  • Building complex and flexible layouts with Tailwind’s Grid utilities
  • Customizing Tailwind
  • Working with Tailwind plugins
  • And much more!

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Ivaylo Gerchev

I am a web developer/designer from Bulgaria. My favorite web technologies include SVG, HTML, CSS, Tailwind, JavaScript, Node, Vue, and React. When I'm not programming the Web, I love to program my own reality ;)
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Derek Padula

A great introduction and series of tutorials to Tailwind. I had never used Tailwind prior to starting this book. Now I feel comfortable with loading Tailwind into my project, adding Tailwind classes, and researching plugins and component frameworks that connect to Tailwind. In large part due to the wow factor behind Tailwind itself, for the first time in a while I felt like web development was fun again. There are a few typos, and the code in the last chapter didn't work for me, but otherwise it was an excellent guide. This book is easy to understand and follow, and provides many photographs and code samples. I recommend it to others who are starting out with Tailwind.

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