The 7 best plugins to use in your Tailwind project

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  • tailwindcss-typography

    Beautiful typographic defaults for HTML you don't control.

  • Typography is a Tailwind plugin that helps you easily style long blocks of text, like blog posts. It gives text a readable look without any extra effort from you. But why would you need any help? Tailwind applies a set of CSS reset rules to your project that makes most unstyled HTML elements look like plain text, and to fix this, you have to style all of them again from scratch.

  • tailwindcss-container-queries

    A plugin for Tailwind CSS v3.2+ that provides utilities for container queries.

  • tailwindcss-container-queries is a Tailwind plugin for v3.2+ that adds utility classes for CSS container queries to your project. Container queries are a CSS feature that lets you write style rules for an element that the browser applies conditionally, based on the size of a parent element you mark as a container.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • tailwindcss-forms

    A plugin that provides a basic reset for form styles that makes form elements easy to override with utilities.

  • The forms plugin is similar to the typography plugin. Because Tailwind CSS’ resets also affect form elements, the job of the forms plugin is to give form elements a set of pretty, default styles. The default styles are minimal so you won't want to use them as is, but they make a convenient base you can override and extend.

  • tailwindcss-logical

    A CSS Logical Properties and Values plugin for Tailwind CSS.

  • tailwindcss-logical is a Tailwind plugin for v1.20+ that gives you utility classes for CSS logical properties and values. Logical properties and values is a name for a group of CSS properties and values that the browser evaluates based on the flow of the document instead of the dimensions of the screen. The document’s flow dictates the order you should read the elements on the screen. For example, the flow of an English document is usually that lines are laid out horizontally and top-to-bottom, and are read left-to-right.

  • nightwind

    An automatic, customisable, overridable Tailwind dark mode plugin

  • Nightwind is a plugin whose mission is to give you the gift of an effortless dark mode. The plugin uses your Tailwind config to automatically generate and apply classes for dark mode. It lets you write just one set of classes for your site, then you install and initialize it, and your site gets a dark mode without any further CSS on your part.

  • tailwind-heropatterns

    Streamlined integration between tailwindcss and heropatterns.com

  • Tailwind-heropatterns is a plugin that makes it easy to add beautiful SVG backgrounds to your website. The backgrounds the plugin provides come from Hero Patterns, a site that provides a collection of SVG patterns you can use in your project. The plugin provides utility classes to make it convenient to use these SVG patterns.

  • tailwindcss-theme-variants

    Media-query- or JavaScript-based theme variants with fallback for Tailwind CSS

  • Tailwind CSS Theme Variants is a plugin that allows you to define multiple themes for a single project and apply different themes in varying scenarios. It lets you choose which theme should be active based on the value of a media query (like prefers-color-scheme or prefers-contrast ), the presence of a CSS selector (like a class or data attribute), or some combination of both.

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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