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Hand-written tutorials, ordered as a recommended learning path.

1. 21 Theme Tokens Extend Tailwind's theme with custom colors, spacing, and design tokens that scale across a real product without fighting the framework. 3 min read →
2. 22 Dark Mode Compare the class-based, media-based, and variable-driven approaches to dark mode in Tailwind, with code and the trade-offs of each. 5 min read →
3. 23 DS Patterns Build a design system on top of Tailwind that stays consistent as the app grows. Tokens, components, variants, and the cva pattern explained. 5 min read →
4. 24 Prose Use the @tailwindcss/typography plugin to style long-form content like blog posts and documentation with a single prose class and well-chosen overrides. 4 min read →
5. 25 Typography Style long-form Markdown and CMS content with the prose utility, then customize the typography plugin to fit your brand. 4 min read →
6. 26 TW vs Bootstrap A pragmatic comparison of Tailwind CSS and Bootstrap covering philosophy, bundle size, customization, and the right use cases for each framework. 4 min read →
7. 27 Tailwind vs CSS Modules Compare Tailwind utilities and CSS Modules across scoping, performance, refactoring, and team workflow to pick the right styling system. 4 min read →
8. 28 Headless UI Use Headless UI's accessible React components alongside Tailwind utilities to build menus, dialogs, comboboxes, and toggles that match your design system exactly. 4 min read →
9. 29 Radix UI Combine Radix UI's accessible unstyled primitives with Tailwind utilities to build production-grade dialogs, menus, and tooltips that look exactly the way you want. 4 min read →
10. 30 Tailwind + shadcn A practical overview of how Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui work together to give you a component library you can actually own and customize. 5 min read →