[Free] Tailwind Css: Complete Installation &Amp; Getting Started Guide
Learn how to install TailwindCSS step by step, and how to start using it. Updated for Tailwind CSS 3.0! – Free Course
What you’ll learn
- What is Tailwind CSS and what is it used for?
- Using the Playground from the official website
- Visual Studio Code editor configuration
- Working locally with the Play CDN
- Installing and configuring Tailwind CLI, and compiling a final, optimized CSS file
- Create a simple example page to test that everything works
- Converting a page made with standard CSS to Tailwind CSS
Requirements
- Basic HTML and CSS
- Using a code editor
Description
In this installation and getting started guide, you will learn to get Tailwind CSS ready to start working on your projects.We will cover the 3 ways to work with Tailwind CSS:
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Using the Playground. This is an online editor on the Tailwind CSS official website, where as you write your HTML, a preview reflects how the page looks. In real-time.
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Using the CDN version of Tailwind CSS. It is a fast way to work with your own code editor without installing anything. In the course, you will see how to do it with Visual Studio Code, where I will also show you which extensions I use.
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Using the Tailwind CSS compiler. The recommended way to work seriously with this CSS framework. You will learn to install Tailwind CSS on your machine and compile a final optimized CSS file.
You will also learn how to:
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Install the official plugins, with simple examples of using a couple of them.
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Convert HTML using standard CSS to the Tailwind CSS utility classes.
Let’s get to it!
Author(s): David Morales
