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86: Jonathan Reinink - Rebuilding a SaaS with Vue.js and Tailwind CSS
In this episode, Adam talks to Jonathan Reinink about lessons learned rebuilding his SaaS app with Vue.js and Tailwind CSS.
Topics include:
- Wrapping non-Vue libraries as Vue components to maintain a consistent paradigm
- Using Popper.js with Vue to build dropdowns and tooltips
- Using portals to build better modal components
- Patterns for making it easier to reuse components throughout an application
- Which Tailwind CSS component classes Jonathan chose to extract (and which ones he didn't)
- How Jonathan chose to customize his Tailwind configuration for his project
- Using Tailwind's advanced screen options to better accommodate a sidebar layout
- How Jonathan is using Purgecss to reduce his CSS from 110,000 lines of code 1.7mb in development to 8.8kb in production
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Links:
- Advanced Vue Component Design, Adam's upcoming course
- "Building a Sortable Component with Vue.js", replay from Adam's recent live stream
- Vue.js
- Tailwind CSS
- Turbolinks
- Popper.js positioning library
- Pikaday date picker library
- Vue.nextTick()
- PortalVue, library for rendering elements outside of their parent component
- Portals in React
- Purgecss