Daily micro-tutorials covering utility-first CSS, modern responsive design, dynamic layout patterns, and design system architecture.
For most of the web’s history, styling has followed a simple principle: write CSS rules, assign them semantic class names, and link the markup to the styles through those names. The BEM methodology (Block, Element, Modifier) became the industry standard for making that separation manageable. Then Tailwind CSS arrived with a different philosophy: don’t name…
In the previous chapter, you compared the utility-first paradigm to the BEM approach and decided whether Tailwind fits your project. This chapter assumes it does. The next question is how to install it. Tailwind CSS v4 offers two official integration paths: the Vite plugin for projects that already use Vite, and the standalone CLI for…
In the previous chapter, you installed Tailwind CSS using either the Vite plugin or the CLI. In both cases, the setup ended with a single line in your CSS file: @import “tailwindcss”;. That line does the work. It replaces the three @tailwind directives from v3 and brings in the entire default theme, the preflight base…
Tailwind CSS v4 represents a ground-up rewrite of the framework. The old JavaScript-based engine that powered v3 is gone. In its place is Oxide, a new engine built with Rust and powered by Lightning CSS. The result is not a marginal improvement but a different class of performance: full builds drop from seconds to milliseconds,…
In Tailwind v3, every project needed a content array in tailwind.config.js. That array told Tailwind which files to scan for class names. Forget to update it, and the CSS for a new component would silently disappear from the production build. Tailwind v4 eliminates this configuration entirely. The engine scans the project automatically using a set…