Tailwind CSS - Editor Setup


Before working with any technology, always try to create your own friendly setup so the development pace can be top-notch. Having helpful plugins and required configuration settings can help improve your development experience.

Syntax Support

Tailwind CSS supports custom CSS at-rules like @tailwind, @apply, and @config, but these at-rules can trigger warnings or errors in many editors where they are not recognizable.

To solve those warnings and errors we will recommend you to install plugins on your IDE or editor so that will support the PostCSS instead of regular CSS.

Now you are curios "What is PostCSS?" So the PostCSS is futuristic CSS that has the power of JavaScript.

In some cases, you may need to disable native CSS linting/validations if your editor is very strict about the syntax it expects in your CSS files.

VS Code Extension or Plugins for Tailwind CSS

There are a lot of plugins and extensions available. Here, we have listed a few that are the most in-demand and useful. These will help you speed up your development.

  • Tailwind CSS IntelliSense Tailwind CSS IntelliSense enhances the Tailwind development experience by providing Visual Studio Code users with advanced features such as autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and linting.
  • Tailwind CSS IntelliSense
  • Tailwind Fold: With Tailwind Fold, you can say goodbye to messy and hard-to-read HTML code. This extension helps improve the readability of your code by automatically "folding" long class attributes.
  • Tailwind Fold
  • Tailwind Documentation: This is a cheat sheet for you to use during development. In the sidebar, you can search for the required classes that you need to use on any element.
  • Tailwind Documentation
  • Tailwind Config Viewer: View the config of your Tailwind CSS project in a sidebar. It will show you all the colors, fonts, spacing, and more that you have defined in your tailwind.config.js file.
  • Tailwind Config Viewer