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Tailwind CSS Custom Styles: 27 Unbeatable Power Moves for React & Design Systems
Tailwind CSS custom styles changed how I ship front-ends. A quick story: one late Friday I promised a client a dark-mode dashboard “by Monday.” I had a raw React app, a sketchy color palette, and way too much coffee. Twelve hours later—thanks to Tailwind’s theme.extend, a tiny plugin, and a couple of @layer utilities—that dashboard looked like a product. Not a prototype. Since then, my rule is simple: keep styles composable, automate the boring parts, and make it easy for teammates to do the right thing without thinking. This guide follows that mindset. We’ll mirror a practical structure you can follow step-by-step: integrate Tailwind in React, understand the core directives, extend the theme, create reusable component classes, write and package...
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