iconify VS tailwindcss-typography

Icons play a vital role in the web development. They guide us, convey messages, and enhance user experiences on numerous websites and applications. Whether you are an experienced developer or a beginner in web development, having a reliable source of high-quality icons is essential. This is where Iconify comes in, providing an extensive selection of icons that will breathe life into your projects.

https://iconify.design/ has been my go to for years, but I like the ability to customize the colors from the UI, although I personally use tailwind classes for my colors

Before explaining the whole code, it is worth saying that you can get all the icons used in this tutorial are from iconify

It was positioned absolutely to the parent container and was placed at the position where it is using -bottom-8 and left-[17%], the icon use there is from iconify

Svg Icons from Iconify.

Luckily, I found that in astro you can do it easily with the astro-icon package. This package uses Iconify, an icon library that combines dozens of different icon packs into one. The most interesting icon pack for me was the SVG Logos as it includes all logos for different tech companies, programming languages, etc. Now, adding these icons is as simple as:

I've been using https://iconify.design/

To enable viewing MDX files in our app, lets install MDX. We should also install our other helper which is tailwindcss/typography as a dev dependency. This'll be useful later for auto styling the blog post.

3. Setup react-markdown and @tailwindcss/typography

The typography plugin which comes out of tailwind gives a clean readable experience in my opinion. https://tailwindcss.com/docs/typography-plugin

This is the text before the plugin: This is the text after applying the plugin: You can play with the demo here, and check out more ways to use it in the Typography documentation.

2. Use typography plugin

We've been using https://tailwindcss.com/docs/typography-plugin with Tiptap and it's worked great so far.

While we could have used the Tailwind CSS Typography plugin, we chose this solution to have more control over the tag styles and avoid overriding the plugin’s default styles. Since this demo utilizes only a few elements, this choice is appropriate.

Are you talking about Typography? If yes, that's what I'm using to pretty-print the HTML, which was generated using the above technique.

i also mostly cannot change layout since i use @tailwind/typography which requires a specific layout.

Before rendering the BlogPost, we can also style some of it using Tailwind Typography