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@starting-style: Entry Animations Without JavaScript in Tailwind

Maxim Mironjuk - March 04, 2026

A modal that just appears on open feels abrupt. Fading it in smoothly on first render used to be the territory of JavaScript libraries that had to time the mount moment carefully. With the CSS @starting-style rule, the browser now handles this natively, paired with the transition utilities Tailwind developers already know.

Tailwind CSS

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Debugging Tailwind Class Conflicts: Specificity, Cascade Layers and Order

Maxim Mironjuk - February 23, 2026

When a utility class sits right there in the markup but simply does not show up in the browser, the cause is rarely Tailwind itself. Tailwind class conflicts almost always come from cascade order, third party CSS specificity, or overlapping variants, and can be resolved reliably with a systematic debugging workflow.

Tailwind React

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Tailwind CSS vs. CSS Modules in React and Next.js: An Honest Comparison

Maxim Mironjuk - February 22, 2026

Utility-first or scoped stylesheets? Both approaches have clear strengths and blind spots. Anyone who judges Tailwind CSS and CSS Modules purely on personal taste misses the decisive architectural differences, and ends up choosing the wrong solution for their project.

Tailwind CSS

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Theme Generator: Compiling JSON Design Tokens into @theme Blocks Automatically

Maxim Mironjuk - February 19, 2026

A manually maintained @theme block spirals out of control once the same color values are also needed for native apps, Figma, or a second frontend. A theme generator reads a single JSON token file as the single source of truth and automatically produces the Tailwind CSS v4 @theme block from it, consistent across every platform.

Tailwind React TypeScript

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React + Tailwind: the cn Utility, clsx and class-variance-authority

Maxim Mironjuk - February 17, 2026

String concatenation for Tailwind classes is error-prone, hard to read and does not scale to a real design system. The combination of clsx, tailwind-merge and class-variance-authority (CVA) solves this elegantly: type-safe variants, conflict-safe class merging and a single cn utility for the entire codebase.

JavaScript Tailwind

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PDF Generation with Tailwind CSS and Puppeteer

Maxim Mironjuk - February 17, 2026

Anyone who needs to produce reports, invoices, or certificates as PDF can use the same Tailwind CSS template that already runs in the browser. Puppeteer remotely controls headless Chrome and calls page.pdf(), so the layout, including flexbox, grid, and custom properties, is carried over faithfully into the PDF.

Tailwind Alpine.js

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Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js: Advanced Combination Patterns

Maxim Mironjuk - February 09, 2026

A simple x-show with two toggle classes is the starting point, but Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS can do much more: class objects through x-bind, multi-phase x-transition sequences, nested components with x-teleport and global theming through Alpine.store. This article shows patterns that go beyond the basics tutorial and are genuinely needed in real production applications.

Tailwind Design Patterns

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Styling Modal Dialogs with the Native dialog Element

Maxim Mironjuk - February 08, 2026

The dialog element ships focus management, escape handling and a real backdrop straight from the browser. With Tailwind CSS and a bit of Alpine.js it becomes a production ready modal system that needs no focus trap library and stays fully accessible.

Tailwind CSS

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Tailwind CSS Multi-Brand Theming: One Codebase, Many Brands

Maxim Mironjuk - February 07, 2026

White-label products, multi-tenant SaaS and agencies with many clients face the same challenge: how do you serve multiple brands from a single codebase without duplicating class names and without complicating the build process? Tailwind CSS multi-brand theming with @theme and CSS custom properties is the answer.

Tailwind Web Performance

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Tailwind CSS Performance: A Smaller CSS Bundle Without Compromise

Maxim Mironjuk - January 29, 2026

Tailwind CSS produces tiny CSS files in production, provided the configuration is right. Misconfigured content paths, an uncontrolled safelist, or a missing minifier let the bundle grow unnecessarily. This article shows how to fully exploit Tailwind CSS performance potential and reach a CSS bundle under 10 KB.