Tailwind Weekly #44: Quiet week but something's brewing 👀!
Hello folks!
It was a quiet week on the news front, no official announcements from the Tailwind Labs team, and the ecosystem was uneventful too, maybe something secret and amazing is brewing 👀, we’ll know in due time!
Now, onto the usual menu!
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🤩 Sponsor
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📚 Learning
Getting Deep into Shadows
This week we got another primer! This time about box shadows and from the incredibly useful CSS Tricks blog. This one is a bit long but very insightful, the first part is mostly about the theory behind shadows, light sources etc and the second half is about practical examples of the different shadows you create with CSS. Overall a very good read!
💅 Showcase
A simple uptime and SSL monitoring | PingPing
I would say PingPing is simple but mighty, they are the classic example of using Tailwind UI components for their landing page but they differ in that they added their own personal touches like the blue highlights, the Twitter wall, and the elaborated screenshots. Like I said, simple but mighty!
For the curious:
PingPing is a simple to use website and certificate monitoring servic
🎁 Resource
tailwindcss-logical
This is a great plugin to start using CSS logical properties in your code, don’t know what are those? CSS Tricks has a great article about them.
They’re a bit controversial (some people think they’re not necessary) but they’re very useful when you’re working with non-LTR (left-to-right) languages like Arabic and such so if you’re in that boat, this plugin will work wonders!
🗞 Classifieds
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