headwind VS twin.macro

Added the tailwind-prettier-plugin as not everyone uses headwind

Headwind is a nice addon for VS Code to sort classes automatically and warn you when using conflicting classes: https://github.com/heybourn/headwind

The one I'm using is Headwind which defines itself as:

Headwind is a nice opinionated sorter which probably can be tweaked to understand our Slim templates but as a VS Code plugin it only works inside this particular IDE. We mostly use JetBrains RubyMine in our team and also needed a CLI version.

If you are worried about property sort order (Tailwind is much more readable if you are) then you can use another tool to deal with that for you: Headwind. This VS Code extension will format your Tailwind classes on save and group them by their function, making sure everything is where you expect it.

Headwind - a VS Code extension that sorts your CSS classes on save

I can suggest taking a look at Tailwind CSS Best Practice Patterns and Robin Malfait's Good Example to get an idea of how that would look like. For consistency, I can also recommend having a convention for class ordering or using headwind as an opinionated class sorter.

There's Headwind CSS, which orders classes predictably. But it doesn't move them to separate lines. This could be a config option if you're willing to write a pull request.

https://github.com/heybourn/headwind

Twin Macro Github Repo. This is a great resource to help you pick up Twin’s syntax, learn more about the package, and keep up to date with the latest releases.

Personally I like twin.macro the most. It’s similar to the above but based on Tailwind.

twin.macro is a library that allows you to use these styles in your JavaScript code. This library works exactly like styled-components.

One of the more promising alternatives is twin.macro - a Babel macro that processes Tailwind classes to generate JS objects understandable by various CSS-in-JS libraries. The developer experience (DX) of using it is amazing as you not only get all of Tailwind’s features without much change to your code, but you also get much more flexibility - all that on top of the traditional benefits of CSS-in-JS. Here’s an example code:

twin.macro

If you use Tailwind with React a lot, and are wanting support for Styled Components, give Twin Macro a look. They're close to finishing support for TW v3 in their Releases section :)

The blocker for us using it is our use of an excellent library called twin.macro which is built against babel's transpilation APIs to parse tailwindcss directives at compile time so that they may be used with css-in-js libraries. This efficiently bundles your css so that you only ship the precise css you use. The problem is, it's all quite slow.