In March, I was a guest again on the Talking Drupal podcast. This time I was talking about utility CSS and, in particular, the Tailwind CSS framework.<\/p>\n\n
I've become a big fan of this approach to styling websites and was an early adopter of Tailwind, and have released a starter-kit theme<\/a> for building custom Drupal themes with Tailwind CSS based on what I was using for my own client projects.<\/p>\n\n Usually when I give a Tailwind CSS talk at a conference or user group, I rebuild something familiar - maybe a page of their website - as an example and to explain some of the concepts and anything that was particularly interesting during the build. (I have a blog post<\/a> that lists the ones that I've done before).<\/p>\n\n After this podcast episode, I built a Tailwind version of the Talking Drupal homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n But, given that Drupal uses Twig and that we'd talked about best practices around using a templating engine to use loops and extract components to organise code and reduce duplication, I definitely wanted to build this example using Twig templates.<\/p>\n\n Drupal seemed like too much for a single page example, and Symfony or Sculpin could distract from the main focus of the demo, so I decided to start from scratch with an empty PHP file and add Twig and any other dependencies myself.<\/p>\n\n The code repository<\/a> is publicly viewable on my GitHub profile so people can look at the code and see some of the things that I talked about during the episode in practice and not just the resulting HTML a browser.<\/p>\n\n You can listen to the episode<\/a>, and if you want any more information, the slides and video from my Taking Flight with Tailwind CSS talk<\/a> are on my website.<\/p>\n\n ",
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}Rebuilding Talking Drupal with Tailwind<\/h2>\n\n
Rebuilding Talking Drupal with Tailwind<\/h2>\n\n