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Modern CSS with Tailwind, 2nd Edition
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Modern CSS with Tailwind, 2nd Edition

by Noel Rappin
May 2022
Intermediate to advanced
104 pages
2h 24m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Chapter 1Getting Started with Tailwind

Before going deep into Tailwind’s utilities, let’s take a quick tour to get a feel for how Tailwind CSS works.

Tailwind is both a set of utility classes and a tool that generates CSS files based on those classes. It also provides the @apply directive to allow you to compose Tailwind classes. To get started with Tailwind, we need to install the framework itself and then patch it into our CSS processing tool chain. First, we’ll take a look at what the Tailwind command-line interface (CLI) does.

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