Tailwind Weekly #61: 1M weekly downloads, v3.0 alpha and more 🤩!

Hello folks!

I know I know, it’s been a while, I was on hiatus for some weeks, dealing with some personal and work stuff but now things are good and I just have been missing writing this so much! So we’re back 😎.

As for news, I’m adding everything that happened ever since the last issue, let me know if you think I missed anything and I’ll include it next week.

Now, let’s get to it, shall we? 😉

🌟 News

Here’s what you may have missed since the last issue:

• TailwindCSS recently crossed 1 MILLION weekly downloads 🥳

• The first alpha of Tailwind’s v3.0 is out. Be sure to test it and report bugs!

• Jonathan Reinink joined the Tailwind Labs team! You might know him as the creator of Inertia.js and also one of the first contributors to TailwindCSS

• The famous Fireship youtube channel did an “X in 100 seconds” video for Tailwind, check it out!

We also got 3 new videos from the Tailwind Labs team:

• Glowing Background Gradient Effects with Tailwind CSS

• Building a Headless Ecommerce Store with Tailwind CSS, Shopify, and Next.js

• Building a YouTube Thumbnail with Tailwind CSS

🤩 Sponsor

The sponsor of this issue is Windy – the browser extension that transforms any HTML element into a Tailwind CSS component with a single click. Save hours or days when you convert your non-Tailwind sites to Tailwind or go to any website and see how you can build any element with Tailwind CSS. Get a 20% discount if you use the code TAILWIND-WEEKLY during the checkout.

📚 Learning

The World of CSS Transforms

Another great primer from Josh, this time about CSS transforms. Definitely a great read, I have been enjoying Josh’s content for a while now and speaking like someone who thought she knew CSS like the back of her hand, Josh’s content always teaches me new stuff!

💅 Showcase

Panther | Find out who to trust with your data instantly.

Man, this week’s showcase is so cool-looking! It’s clean, readable, and has color all over the place, reminds me a bit about Stripe’s design, and that’s definitely a compliment!

For the curious, here’s what Panther does:

Panther tells you who to trust and why instantly. All in a clear, simple way. No matter if you’re just a little worried or if you’re a full-on privacy advocate.

🎁 Resource

tailwindcss-perspective

If you’re into fancy 3D CSS transforms and animations then you’ll love this plugin! It adds utility classes for the perspective property. Combine that with some rotating classes and you’ll get cool animations really easily.

👌 Promoted links

Note: Some of these links are affiliate links, which means I get compensated in some way if you buy through them but I promise I only recommend products I really like!

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