Design with Tailwind CSS Masterclass

Building your web app with a fully customized design is a daunting task. If you aren't a CSS expert, applying a design style to your markup can consume hours and hours as you try to tweak pixels, align elements, and bang your head on the desk in frustration.

There are options. You can turn to a full-blown CSS framework like Bootstrap to help build your app. But, out of the box, you end up building an app that people will look at and say, "Hey there, nice Bootstrap app."

So if you want a fully custom design, you are back at step 1.

There's a middle way. An approach that gives you the freedom to apply your custom design, but in a way that greatly simplifies the CSS, providing you with core functionality without applying heavily opinionated design to your app.

This is Tailwind, a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces.

Design with Tailwind CSS is a series that teaches you how to build fully responsive, professionally designed UIs from scratch using Tailwind CSS.

Together we’ll build Workcation, a property rental app loaded with interesting details that will help you master Tailwind in no time.

What you'll learn
Get Tailwind CSS up and running in your project
Build complex application layouts with flexbox
Build accessible user interfaces following industry best practices
Remove unused CSS from production builds to maximum performance
Use responsive utility variants to build adaptive user interfaces
Use utilities to style elements on hover, focus, and other states
Extend Tailwind with custom utility classes
Work with Tailwind CSS plugins
Customize Tailwind CSS to meet the needs of your design
Augment Tailwind CSS with JavaScript to make your designs interactive

Quick Facts
Utility classes create an API on top of what is already a declarative API (CSS itself)
Every utility class is reusable so you rarely need to write new CSS
Tailwind CSS makes easier to maintain a large CSS codebase
Tailwind CSS uses a mobile first breakpoint system
Tailwind CSS is component-driven
Tailwind CSS is single source of truth for your CSS architecture

Questions to Reflect Upon:
How do you build visually consistent UIs?
What are the best practices for implementing design systems?
What makes a project maintainable?
How much design CSS do I need to know?

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