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Brent reflects on how using Tailwind CSS has led to a loss of proficiency in writing standard CSS.
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Seeing Red, or Maybe Green? How Tailwind Helps Colourblind Designers
– liamhammett.com - submitted by Liam Hammett
It may only be a side effect of its colour palette and class naming conventions, but as a colourblind developer, Tailwind has made it SO EASY to design with sensible colours - a superpower I've been missing my whole life
Read more [liamhammett.com]
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Creating beautiful invoices using Tailwind and Laravel PDF original
Last week, we released a new package called Laravel PDF that allows you to transform Blade views into PDFs. Under the hood, Chromium is used to perform the transformation. Because Chromium is an up-to-date browser, you can use any modern CSS you like.
Some people have asked if they can use Tailwind to style their documents. And I’m happy to report you can. Let’s take a look at a minimal example to showcase this.
Watch the keynote of Tailwind Connect 2023
The keynote of Tailwind Connect 2023 took place on June 20th, 2023, featuring presentations from Adam Wathan, Sam Selikoff, and Steve Schoger.
What's new in Tailwind 3.1
Adam shows the cool new stuff!
Creating your own color system with Tailwind
In this post, Oh Dear's front end developer Nick goes into more detail on why and how he implemented a tailwind-like color system that will be used in the upcoming redesign.
Read more [ohdear.app]
How to send e-mails in Laravel with Tailwind CSS
– ralphjsmit.com - submitted by Ralph J. Smit
In this tutorial I'll show you how to send e-mails from Laravel with Tailwind CSS. I'll learn you how to set this up and how to inline all the Tailwind CSS-classes.
Read more [ralphjsmit.com]
Recreating the GitHub UI with Tailwind
Here's Jess Archer showing how you can recreate the GitHub UI with Tailwind.
Create beautiful Open Graph images with Browsershot and Tailwind CSS
– protone.media - submitted by Pascal Baljet
For Artisan School, I wanted to create custom Open Graph images for each video page. When somebody shares a link on social media, platforms like Facebook and Twitter use the OG image to represent the shared link. I'll show you how to use Browsershot and Tailwind CSS to generate and save the OG images.
Read more [protone.media]
What's new in Tailwind CSS v3.0
Another impressive, feature rich release by the Tailwind team. Here's a rundown of all the new features.
The all-new Just-in-Time CDN for Tailwind
Simon give you a tour of the all-new Just-in-Time CDN build we're working on for Tailwind CSS v3.0, which lets you prototype with every variant, arbitrary values, and more - directly in the browser.
Building a simple dashboard using Tailwind original
In this stream, Shruti Balasa show how powerful Tailwind is. She builds a simple dashboard layout in only a couple of minutes. If you want to learn more about Tailwind, consider buying a ticket for her online workshop at Full Stack Europe. You can get a 20% discount for Shruti's workshop by using…
I changed my mind about Tailwind CSS
When did you last changed your opinion on something technical?
Read more [www.thomasdhondt.be]
Glowing Background Gradient Effects with Tailwind CSS
Yet another nice video by Simon on cool things you can do with Tailwind.
Building a Fancy Tile Grid with Tailwind CSS
Another amazing video by Simon!
Rebuilding iOS15 with Tailwind CSS
Simon of the Tailwind Labs team, keeps creating cool videos. In this video he recreates the iOS notifications screen.
Building React + Vue support for Tailwind UI
Adam Wathan wrote a lenghty post on why and how they are bringing React and Vue support to Tailwind UI
Read more [blog.tailwindcss.com]
Using Tailwind's JIT compiler with Laravel Mix
As a predominantly Laravel developer that is accustomed to Laravel Mix, I wanted to see how to get Tailwind's JIT compiler working with Laravel Mix, and was pleasantly surprised that it was quite simple and just works.
Read more [dyrynda.com.au]
A JIT compiler for Tailwind CSS
Incredible work by Adam Wathan and his team.
Styling Forms with Tailwind CSS
Here's a very cool video by Simon Vrachliotis on how to style forms with the tailwindcss form plugin.
I could immediately use this knowledge to style some forms on this very blog.