Before I started at Flatiron School, I had to learn three different programming languages, JavaScript, HTML, and (my least favorite) CSS. I hate working with CSS, it’s super annoying, naming classes is hard, and I always end up with a really ugly and bloated css file at the end of a project. There was no way I could possibly keep working with it, so I decided to go out and find a better way. While there are a lot of CSS frameworks out there that could solve this problem, today I’ll be writing about one I’ve been messing with – Tailwind.
On the official Tailwind website they describe the framework as “a utility-first CSS framework” that you can use “directly in your markup”. After I read a little bit and watched a couple of videos, I knew that I had to give this a shot. Tailwind offers a lot of customization with lots of pre-built utility classes, which would make your HTML look something like this; <h1 class="text-green bg-gray-100 font-mono">Hello world!</h1>. This…
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