Hugo Starter Tailwind Basic

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tailwind

A basic and simple to set up Hugo with TailwindCSS starter project.

Overview

The Hugo Basic Starter for TailwindCSS v3.x is a simple starter template designed to quickly set up a Hugo project with TailwindCSS and its typography plugin. It also includes a build setup using PostCSS and PurgeCSS for optimizing the production build. The starter template has been optimized for performance and currently achieves a perfect score of 100 on both mobile and desktop on Google PageSpeed when deployed on Netlify. This template can be used both as a starter project or as a theme for existing Hugo projects.

Features

  • TailwindCSS integration: The starter includes TailwindCSS, a utility-first CSS framework, which allows for rapid development and customization of styles.
  • Typography plugin: The template also includes TailwindCSS's typography plugin, which provides pre-designed typographic styles for headings, paragraphs, and other text elements.
  • Build optimization: The build setup includes PostCSS and PurgeCSS, which help to minimize the final CSS file size by removing unused styles. This improves page load times and overall performance.
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Hugo

Hugo is an open-source static site generator that features fast build times, flexible themes, support for multiple content formats, multilingual websites, live reloading, and an active community. It allows developers to easily create and deploy SEO-friendly and mobile-responsive websites.

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Tailwind

Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.

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Postcss

PostCSS is a popular open-source tool that enables web developers to transform CSS styles with JavaScript plugins. It allows for efficient processing of CSS styles, from applying vendor prefixes to improving browser compatibility, ultimately resulting in cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.