Tailwind CSS
Utility-first CSS framework. Compose styles with class names, scan templates with the JIT engine, and ship tiny CSS bundles. v4 rewrote the engine in Rust.
Tailwind CSS is the utility-first styling approach the React and Next.js worlds standardized on. You compose styles inline as class names, and Tailwind's JIT engine generates only the CSS you actually used. v4 rewrote the engine in Rust and Lightning CSS for dramatic build-speed gains and a config-less default. Pairs naturally with shadcn/ui and Radix. The trade-off is verbose markup, which most teams accept for the speed and design-system consistency Tailwind enables.
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