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5 BEST PRACTICES FOR AVOIDING CHAOS IN TAILWIND CSS

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Tailwind CSS is a powerful CSS framework for building web applications, but it can be easy to run into code clarity issues as your application grows. To keep things organized, it’s recommended to have a design system in place and adopt a component-based architecture. Furthermore, developers should reduce the number of utility classes, group and name design tokens semantically, maintain consistent class ordering, minimize bundle size, and define predefined variants for components to prevent inconsistencies when overriding styles.