77: Tailwind CSS Q&A and the Road to 1.0

In this episode, Adam and Jonathan Reinink continue their discussion about Tailwind CSS, answering listener questions about the framework and sharing details behind the roadmap to 1.0.

Show Notes

Topics include:

• Why Tailwind doesn't include buttons or forms
• Is Tailwind for front-end developers or back-end developers?
• Best practices around extracting component classes
• Using Tailwind with existing CSS or on top of other frameworks
• Optimizing Tailwind's generated file size
• New features planned for upcoming Tailwind releases

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Links:

• Tailwind CSS Homepage
• Tailwind CSS GitHub repository
• Tailwind CSS discussion forum
• @tailwindcss on Twitter
• Built with Tailwind, a curated list of cool stuff built with Tailwind
• Tailwind Expo, more cool stuff built with Tailwind
• Tailwind CSS lessons on Egghead.io, by Simon Vrachliotis
• purgecss, amazing tool for removing unused CSS from your codebase
• Using PurgeCSS to remove unused Tailwind CSS classes, by Andrew Del Prete
• Jason Beggs' personal site, built with Tailwind and optimized with PurgeCSS
• Building a Login Page with Tailwind CSS, tutorial by Mustafa Ehsan
• Introducing Tailwind CSS on Scotch.io by Ezeugwu Paschal

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A podcast for developers interested in building great software products. Every episode, Adam Wathan is joined by a guest to talk about everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.