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Tailwind CSS Utility-First Approach

Apply pre-built utility classes directly in HTML, customise the theme in tailwind.config.js, and use @apply to extract repeated patterns.

What Is Utility-First CSS?

Tailwind CSS provides pre-built utility classes for every CSS property. Instead of writing custom CSS, you compose styles by adding utility classes directly in HTML. One class = one CSS declaration.

Installing Tailwind

Install Tailwind and initialise the config. Vite projects use the Tailwind Vite plugin or PostCSS plugin.

npm install -D tailwindcss postcss autoprefixer
npx tailwindcss init

# Or with Vite plugin:
npm install -D @tailwindcss/vite

All lessons in this course

  1. BEM Methodology: Block Element Modifier
  2. CSS Modules: Scoped Class Names
  3. CSS-in-JS: Styled-components and Emotion
  4. Tailwind CSS Utility-First Approach
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