Supercharge your CSS with Tailwind

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Tailwind CSS

Tailwind is a styling framework which provides bitesize classes which allow you to style your HTML entities without having to maintain a separate stylesheet. In this article, I'll discuss how the functional CSS ideology can improve productivity and consolidate the styling approach across a front-end team.

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Semantic UI

One of the main hurdles here at CSS was learning the Tailwind lingo. A lot of the utility classes provided are remarkably simple and intuitive, such as p for padding, m for margin, bg for background, and so on. There are occasions where the naming is slightly different, e.g. align-items: center becomes items-center. But these have not been a big issue at all. The naming feels faithful to the original paradigms in CSS, which made learning Tailwind fairly straightforward. It differs, of course, from other approaches like Semantic UI where the classes read like an english sentence, but feel farther away from actual CSS.

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React.run

At times the team has felt as if Tailwind is still very much a work in progress. Support for JIT was added in version 2.0, and we adopted it during that major release cycle, with a variant of Tailwind which was compatible with our version of Create React App. JIT required PostCSS 8.0, which CRA has only begun supporting recently. As such, beforehand, there were some extra hoops for integration. We've tried to upgrade to version 3.0 recently but had to roll back due to some impassable webpack issues.

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PostCSS

With the pre-processors, you can shrink your CSS and increase reuse through variables. In almost all working cases, it will be an improvement above vanilla CSS. There are also implementations now, via PostCSS, that add vendor prefixes for you. The major drawback is, of course, that you have to compile your CSS beforehand; usually done via part of your tooling such as Grunt or Gulp.

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Gulp.js

With the pre-processors, you can shrink your CSS and increase reuse through variables. In almost all working cases, it will be an improvement above vanilla CSS. There are also implementations now, via PostCSS, that add vendor prefixes for you. The major drawback is, of course, that you have to compile your CSS beforehand; usually done via part of your tooling such as Grunt or Gulp.

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Grunt

With the pre-processors, you can shrink your CSS and increase reuse through variables. In almost all working cases, it will be an improvement above vanilla CSS. There are also implementations now, via PostCSS, that add vendor prefixes for you. The major drawback is, of course, that you have to compile your CSS beforehand; usually done via part of your tooling such as Grunt or Gulp.

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