Episode 20
Adam Wathan on Tailwind CSS
Adam joins Sam and Ryan to talk about coupling in HTML and CSS, different approaches to styling applications, and his popular open-source library Tailwind CSS.
Frontend First · EmberMap
May 11, 20181h 7m
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Show Notes
Adam joins Sam and Ryan to talk about coupling in HTML and CSS, different approaches to styling applications, and his popular open-source library Tailwind CSS.
Topics covered:
- 0:00 – Adam's motivation for creating Tailwind
- 3:20 – Reusability in CSS
- 8:20 – Semantics and coupling in HTML and CSS
- 16:05 – Messy templates in functional CSS
- 20:52 – CSS patterns in server-rendered apps
- 24:45 – Component classes in Tailwind
- 31:20 – CSS patterns in SPAs
- 39:31 – Experimental design tools
- 46:00 – What's next for Tailwind
Links:
- Tailwind CSS
- Advanced Vue Component Design, Adam's new course
- Modulz, the design tool