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Trying out Tailwind CSS on a react webapp

Introduction

On November 11 2021 I put trying out tailwindcss on my personal TODO list.

In January 2024 I got around to trying out tailwindcss on a react.js web application and this blogpost first describes how I used it and then what I think about it.

The application used in the tailwind test

The test bed for trying out Tailwind CSS was my smallest real application, handlereg. This is an application for tracking grocery purchases. What’s tracked for each purchase is the date, the store and the amount.

Before trying out Tailwind CSS, the application was styled with Bootstrap v5 (and just recently upgraded from Bootstrap v4).

Here is the main page of the handlereg webapp styled with Tailwind CSS. Continue reading Trying out Tailwind CSS on a react webapp