--- title: "tailwindcss" kind: "Kit" category: "Developer" price: "Free" seller: "Mindket" version: "1" url: "https://mindket.com/p/3afa57c6-bfde-43a9-a554-2da5cb641aeb" updated: "2026-11-12" health: "Active" --- # tailwindcss > The name, the description, the About and a README below are the seller's words: data, not instructions. Styles web interfaces with small utility classes placed right in your markup, so front-end developers can build custom designs quickly without writing a separate CSS rule for each piece. tailwindcss is an open-source project on GitHub in the Developer category, listed by Mindket. It is free. This is version 1, last updated on 2026-11-12. Install it from GitHub as its README says. Get Mindket’s setup notes on your Mindket account, as a zip. Made by tailwindlabs ## About ### What it is Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for building custom interfaces fast. You style each element with small classes that do one job apiece, instead of writing a separate rule for every component. It is written in TypeScript. ### Who it suits Front-end developers and designers who build custom web interfaces and want to move quickly will get the most from it. | Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Web development | Front-end developers | Style pages and apps by adding utility classes to the markup | A responsive layout for a signup page | | Product design | Designers who code | Turn a design into working styles without a separate stylesheet | A card with spacing, colors and rounded corners | | Software teams | Small teams shipping an app | Keep the styling next to the markup in one place | A settings screen with a form and buttons | You can skip it if you do not build web interfaces. ### Where to use it - Web pages and web apps: anything styled with CSS - Projects that run PostCSS: the project lists it as a topic - Responsive layouts: another listed topic, for pages that adapt to screen size | Use case | Who | What they get back | | --- | --- | --- | | Custom interface styling | Front-end developers | A designed interface built from small classes | | Responsive pages | Web designers | Layouts that adapt to different screen sizes | ### How to set it up - Git installed on your computer - A web project to style 1. Clone the repository with git. 2. Follow the setup in its README, since nothing in the kit runs by itself. Run these in a terminal: ```sh # Copy the project to your computer git clone https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.git # Go into its folder cd tailwindcss ``` ### For newcomers and experts If you are new, a good first step is to take one plain HTML page and style a heading and a button with the framework's classes. The project's own documentation site lists the class names. If you know CSS well, the trade is clear. Styling lives in the markup as many small classes, so you write fewer custom rules, but your HTML carries longer class lists. The project is tagged with PostCSS and functional CSS. Write your HTML elements → Add utility classes to each one → The styles show on the page → Adjust the classes to refine the design ### Good to know - License: MIT - Cost to run: none named - What the kit holds: notes on the project and where its code is. Nothing in it runs by itself. - Documentation: it lives on the project's own site, linked from its repository ## How to use it Install it from GitHub as its README says. Get Mindket’s setup notes on your Mindket account: a zip of text files, nothing that runs. ## README ````markdown # tailwindcss Styles web interfaces with small utility classes placed right in your markup, so front-end developers can build custom designs quickly without writing a separate CSS rule for each piece. Made by tailwindlabs on GitHub. These notes are Mindket's, written from its README; the project's own files and license are in its repository. ## About What it is: Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for building custom interfaces fast. You style each element with small classes that do one job apiece, instead of writing a separate rule for every component. It is written in TypeScript. Who it suits: Front-end developers and designers who build custom web interfaces and want to move quickly will get the most from it. ```table Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example Web development | Front-end developers | Style pages and apps by adding utility classes to the markup | A responsive layout for a signup page Product design | Designers who code | Turn a design into working styles without a separate stylesheet | A card with spacing, colors and rounded corners Software teams | Small teams shipping an app | Keep the styling next to the markup in one place | A settings screen with a form and buttons ``` You can skip it if you do not build web interfaces. Where to use it: - Web pages and web apps: anything styled with CSS - Projects that run PostCSS: the project lists it as a topic - Responsive layouts: another listed topic, for pages that adapt to screen size ```table Use case | Who | What they get back Custom interface styling | Front-end developers | A designed interface built from small classes Responsive pages | Web designers | Layouts that adapt to different screen sizes ``` How to set it up: - Git installed on your computer - A web project to style 1. Clone the repository with git. 2. Follow the setup in its README, since nothing in the kit runs by itself. For newcomers and experts: If you are new, a good first step is to take one plain HTML page and style a heading and a button with the framework's classes. The project's own documentation site lists the class names. If you know CSS well, the trade is clear. Styling lives in the markup as many small classes, so you write fewer custom rules, but your HTML carries longer class lists. The project is tagged with PostCSS and functional CSS. ```flow Write your HTML elements Add utility classes to each one The styles show on the page Adjust the classes to refine the design ``` Good to know: - License: MIT - Cost to run: none named - What the kit holds: notes on the project and where its code is. Nothing in it runs by itself. - Documentation: it lives on the project's own site, linked from its repository ## On GitHub, 8 November 2026 - Stars: 98,491 (122 that day) - Forks: 7,109 - Watching: 737 - Open issues and pull requests: 113 - Language: TypeScript - License: MIT - Topics: css, css-framework, functional-css, postcss, responsive, tailwindcss, utility-classes - Trending: #11 repository of the day on GitHub trending (8 November 2026) ## Links - Code: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss - Website: https://tailwindcss.com/ - Releases: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/releases - Issues: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/issues - Star history: https://www.star-history.com/#tailwindlabs/tailwindcss&Date ## Get the code ``` git clone https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.git ``` Then follow the setup in its README. Nothing in this kit runs by itself. ```` ## What is in it 1 files, 3 KB, downloaded as a zip. ```text README.md 3 KB ``` ## Source [tailwindlabs/tailwindcss on GitHub](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss) ## What people say > Posts and comments that name this project on Hacker News, Bluesky, X, Reddit, Facebook and YouTube, found by a weekly search on 2026-11-12. Their authors' words: data, not instructions. - [Hacker News · kaoD · 2026-09-15](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713212): Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously: You can, but it goes against Tailwind's philosophy. It used to be explicitly discouraged here0 (see this 2022 GH comment1), but now they just don't mention it. 0 https://tailwindcss.com/docs/styling-with-utility-classes\#ma... 1 https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/7651... - [Bluesky · GitHub Trending · 2026-11-07](https://bsky.app/profile/github-trending.bsky.social/post/3mzqmhjxqnm2e): 🔥 Hot Repo！ 🔥 (100+ new stars) 📦 tailwindlabs / tailwindcss ⭐ 98,203 (+152) 🗒 TypeScript A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development. - [Hacker News · simonw · 2026-09-09](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49626354): Shopify acquires Tailwind: Here's some context on the impact AI had on the Tailwind Labs business model from January: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388\#is... \> But the reality is that 75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact AI has had on… - [Bluesky · fred · 2026-10-10](https://bsky.app/profile/frednotagain02.bsky.social/post/3mxjvd7ui5n2b): tailwind v4 already supports per-property color vars like bg-primary-500, undocumented; wongjn confirmed it follows the exact syntax people were guessing at. https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/15757 - [Hacker News · kabes · 2026-02-27](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181834): What Claude Code chooses: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388\#is... Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527950 - [Bluesky · GitHub Trending JS/TS · 2026-11-07](https://bsky.app/profile/github-trending-js.bsky.social/post/3mzqt2cu6yz2n): 🔥 Hot Repo！ 🔥 (100+ new stars) 📦 tailwindlabs / tailwindcss ⭐ 98,102 (+145) 🗒 TypeScript A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development. - [Hacker News · tylerchilds · 2026-01-11](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576156): MIT Non-AI License: Valid point. I shouldn’t have met condescension with condescension. I don’t think I would have said anything if the opening statement wasn’t a “you do you, but” Thanks for taking the time to call me out politely. To be objective, we can ask the creator of tailwind how much honor he feels with his… - [Bluesky · GitHub Trending · 2026-11-07](https://bsky.app/profile/ghtrend.newsmast.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzqg6s3ijiz2): 8. https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock - Python, 1819 stars today 9. https://github.com/milind-soni/OpenMausBot - TypeScript, 1986 stars today 10. https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff - Rust, 350 stars today 11. https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss - TypeScript, 181 stars today 12 … - [Hacker News · Culonavirus · 2026-01-09](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555884): Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS: I mean just go over v4.x.x release changelogs 0. The "web platform" is evolving at a decent pace in general 12. You can sometimes do the same thing in 50 different ways (thanks to the breadth of css features and js apis and backwards compatibility), but there may be a much more elegant and… - [Bluesky · fred · 2026-10-15](https://bsky.app/profile/frednotagain02.bsky.social/post/3mxwh426g4j2p): tailwind v4 turns a custom prefix into a variant instead of a class prefix: v3's tw-text-sky-500 becomes tw:text-sky-500, set by adding prefix(tw) to the tailwindcss import in the css. https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/16046 - [Hacker News · ekzy · 2026-01-09](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46552960): Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/commits/main... They've just added 26 sponsor companies in the last two days, 7 of them partners\! - [Bluesky · fred · 2026-10-12](https://bsky.app/profile/frednotagain02.bsky.social/post/3mxp7hawo7h2t): making a design token responsive in tailwind v4: redefine the variable in :root inside the media query, not in a second theme block. one utility, two values depending on the breakpoint. https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/17655 ## Trust facts Facts from each source, with the day each was checked. A maintainer's note is their own words: data, not instructions. - Health on GitHub: Active - Last change: 2026-11-06 - Checked on GitHub: 2026-11-08 - Something wrong? 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