Optimizing Tailwind to the Last Byte

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  • Tailwind CSS

    A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

  • Now that Tailwind pushes bytes to your HTML instead of your CSS, we should be mindful of reducing class usage in our HTML. A good example is:

  • normalize.css

    A modern alternative to CSS resets

  • Many of you may be familiar with the concept of a reset or normalize stylesheet. That's what CSS abstraction looks like in practice and is at the far end of the "abstraction" scale. Since browsers don't have a unified way of styling default elements, we start things off with normalizing styles to get a consistent display for all elements. Then if we continue along the cascade, we may address our base element styles, where we get a bit more opinionated and style the look and feel of all of the naked elements that will be used, like

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