Tailwind CSS Best Practices

Transform UI style requirements into production-ready frontend code with systematic design tokens, accessibility compliance, and creative execution. Use when building websites, web applications, React/Vue components, dashboards, landing pages, or any web UI requiring both design consistency and aesthetic quality.

Generate correct shadcn/Tailwind layouts by applying CSS mental models. This skill should be used when the user asks to 'create a shadcn layout', 'fix layout issues', 'debug CSS height problems', 'make scrolling work', or has issues with Tailwind flex/grid. Keywords: shadcn, Tailwind, layout, CSS, flex, grid, height, scroll, overflow.

Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Provides analysis tools for auditing existing designs and generation tools for creating color palettes, typography systems, design tokens, and component templates. Supports React, Vue, Svelte, and vanilla HTML/CSS. Use when building web components, pages, or applications. Keywords: design, UI, frontend, CSS, components, palette, typography, tokens, accessibility.

Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, artifacts, posters, or applications (examples include websites, landing pages, dashboards, React components, HTML/CSS layouts, or when styling/beautifying any web UI). Generates creative, polished code and UI design that avoids generic AI aesthetics.

React Router performance and architecture patterns. Use when writing loaders, actions, forms, routes, or working with React Router data fetching. Triggers on tasks involving React Router routes, data loading, form handling, or route organization.

Proactively apply when creating design systems, component libraries, or any frontend application. Triggers on CSS Grid, Subgrid, Flexbox, Container Queries, :has(), @layer, @scope, CSS nesting, @property, @function, if(), oklch, color-mix, light-dark, relative color, @starting-style, scroll-driven animations, view transitions, anchor positioning, popover, customizable select, content-visibility, logical properties, text-wrap, interpolate-size, clamp, field-sizing, modern CSS, CSS architecture, responsive design, dark mode, theming, design tokens, cascade layers. Use when writing CSS for any web project, choosing layout approaches, building responsive components, implementing dark mode or theming, creating animations or transitions, styling form elements, or modernizing legacy stylesheets. Modern CSS features and best practices for building interfaces with pure native CSS.