tailwindlabs/tailwindcss

A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

90,1124,730100TypeScript
css
css-framework
functional-css
postcss
responsive
tailwindcss
utility-classes
Analysis

Summary

Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides low-level utility classes to rapidly build custom, responsive user interfaces without writing custom CSS from scratch.

Main Features

  • Utility-first CSS classes for rapid UI construction
  • Highly customizable configuration (theme, colors, spacing, variants)
  • Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler for generating only used styles and improving build speed
  • Responsive, pseudo-class, and state variants out of the box (sm/md/lg, hover, focus, etc.)
  • Purge/Tree-shaking to remove unused CSS and produce small production bundles

Tech Stack

TypeScript
PostCSS
Node.js
JavaScript
CSS (utility-first approach)
Build tooling (CLI, bundlers like webpack/Vite)

Documentation

10/10

Maintenance

9/10

Community

10/10

Statistics

Contributors

100

Commits/Month

32

Open Issues

75

Closed Issues

4513

Created about 8 years ago
Last commit about 2 months ago