laravue3 VS Tailwind CSS

Today we are going to take our simple project template and bring it to the next level by adding Laravel Breeze for simple authentication and set up our TDD workflow using PHPUnit and Jest. If you missed the last post, I'd suggest checking it out. It'll only take a few minutes for you to catch up but if you can also download the source code on Github.

Overall, pretty simple but it is nice to save the steps ever time we want to do some experimenting. You can grab the source from Github for yourself. Next time, we'll add Laravel Breeze for some simple authentication and set up our TDD workflow as well.

Lastly, Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework packed with classes like flex, pt-4, text-center, and rotate-90 that can be composed to build any design, directly in your markup.

Tailwind CSS

Sidekiq is already configured along with assets, tailwindsCSS.

Finally, for our front end, we’re going to be pairing Next.js with the great combination of TailwindCSS and shadcn/ui so we can focus on building the functionality of the app and let them handle making it look awesome!

You can use any frontend framework you want — react-based tooling, however, has a natural advantage as it models everything as a function of state, which can map 1:1 with the concept in Burr. In the demo app we use react, react-query, and tailwind, but we’ll be skipping over this largely (it is not central to the purpose of the post).

Tailwind CSS: A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs.

First, you need to make sure that you have a working Tailwind CSS project…

Tailwind CSS

With better CSS approaches like TailwindCSS and Vanilla Extract (which we're heavily using) it's much easier to maintain the UI and make sure it doesn't change unexpectedly. No more conflicting CSS classes, much less CSS specificity issues and much less CSS code in general.