Building rapid UI with utility-first CSS

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Panelist Jerod Santo and first-time panelist Adam Stacoviak talk with Adam Wathan of Full Stack Radio fame about his CSS utility library called Tailwind CSS that’s growing in popularity to rapidly build custom user interfaces.

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Featuring:

• Adam Wathan – GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces.
• Adam’s post “Going Full-Time on Tailwind CSS”
• Adam’s post “CSS Utility Classes and ‘Separation of Concerns’”
• Full Stack Radio
• Sass control directives: @if, @for, @each and @while
• Post CSS
• CSS Stats ~> Tailwind CSS

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!