Emily Johnson

Emily Johnson

30 Apr 2025

Tailwind Recipes for Pro Teams

Tailwind Recipes for Pro Teams

Design Systems

Tailwind CSS is powerful, but without structure it can lead to class soup.
Large teams need conventions and recipes that scale.

Tailwind dashboard

Team-Friendly Patterns

  • Use @apply for repeating utilities
  • Create a design tokens layer for colors, spacing, and typography
  • Adopt composition via reusable components

Design system boards

Sample Workflow

  1. Define tokens in tailwind.config.js
  2. Build a UI kit of components
  3. Enforce patterns with lint rules

Code snippets

Explore the Tailwind docs
for more recipes that keep code maintainable.

"Consistency beats creativity when building design systems at scale."