How to Setup and Customize Tailwind in Nuxt.js

CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, Bulma, and Materialize are hugely popular among front-end developers. They are a great way to quickly style an application on the set of standard guidelines. However, they are a little difficult to customize and bloated for small applications.

Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework. This means that instead of providing you with ready-made components, Tailwind provides utility-based CSS classes that you can use to style your components. This gives you more flexibility over your design and you can build your own UI framework on top of Tailwind CSS by extending the Tailwind classes.

In this tutorial, you’ll build a portfolio landing page that will have the author’s information and a form to subscribe to a newsletter. You’ll build the front end with Nuxt.js and style it using Tailwind CSS.

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https://mattermost.com/blog/how-to-set-up-and-customize-tailwind-in-nuxt-js/

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How to Setup and Customize Tailwind in Nuxt.js

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