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Written by Tony Lea - 4 minute read
TailwindCSS is the bees knees and creating simple elements with Tailwind is really easy. In this quick tutorial, I want to show you how to create a quick progress bar like the following: Adding TailwindCSS Let's start things off with adding the CDN ...
Written by Tony Lea - 2 minute read
Nowadays, creating a blog is easy. But, with all the different options available, you might go crazy by just doing the research. Should you choose WordPress and tweak the theme to get it the way you like, or a static site generator with no admin inte...
Written by Tony Lea - 1 minute read
Tailwind CSS version 1.6 was released last week. This new version does not introduce any new breaking changes, and it gives us some awesome animation utility classes. Animation Classes There are four default animations with the ability to create more...
Written by Tony Lea - 1 minute read
Have you ever wished there was a TV station where people talk about geeky stuff relating to tech, web, and engineering? If so, you're in luck because our friends over at Cloudflare have released a new web-based Live TV show, called Cloudflare TV. Th...
Written by Tony Lea - 3 minute read
The TailwindCSS library is amazing. We can create some beautiful user interfaces with their utility and component classes. But, what happens when you need to build some custom solutions? Well then, a TailwindCSS plugin is what you'll need to create. ...
Written by Tony Lea - 3 minute read
Tailwind has been gaining popularity and it's getting picked up by a lot of developers and designers. My hope is that everyone will soon know the awesomeness of this amazing library. So, in this tutorial, I want to show you the simplest way to get a ...
Written by Tony Lea - 2 minute read
Alpine gives you the ability to implement simple javascript functionality in your application without pulling in a larger library like Vue or React. Some use-cases for using alpine are modal pop-ups or simple drop-downs. And luckily, creating some si...
Written by Tony Lea - 2 minute read
The Tall Stack is a full-stack development solution which combines a set of tools as a way of easily and quickly building applications. The Tall Stack consists of the following: Tailwind Alpine Laravel Livewire Utilizing the Tall Stack will...
Written by Tony Lea - 2 minute read
When working with Laravel and Eloquent, you can take advantage of a bunch of cool helper functions that make inserting, updating, and deleting data from your database very easy. Let's start with a quick example of how you can create a new post. <?...
Written by Tony Lea - 4 minute read
I've been around the Laravel game for quite some time now, and sometimes it's kind of hard to keep up with all the awesome new features released in this framework. I finally got around to digging into Blade View Components, which allow you to create ...