Learn Figma, Tailwind and Tweenmax

OpenGraph images are the images you see when you paste a link into a social platform and it "unfurls" into an image, title, and description. This happens on Twitter, Discord, Slack, and many other platforms. This collection goes over everything from designing OpenGraph images in Figma, to implementing them in CodeSandbox, to returning headless browser screenshots from Netlify Functions, and finally using Cloudinary as a write-through cache. 

You will come away from this collection with the ability to ship an API that you can use on any of your sites, and also on-demand, that can generate images for not only OpenGraph unfurls, but also for Instagram, GitHub, and more. Using headless browsers with playwright to generate our images means we get full access to all the responsive power of CSS and all the logical power of JS to handle layout, importing assets like pngs, choosing different fonts, and more.

The image below is generated via the project you'll build and deploy in this course

![An example opengraph image](https://relaxed-payne-d1bfbe.netlify.com/opengraph?title=Building%20an%20OpenGraph%20image%20generation%20API%20with%20Cloudinary%20Netlify%20Functions%20and%20React&tags=figma,netlify%20functions,playwright&author=chrisbiscardi)

React is one of the web’s most popular frameworks for building JavaScript applications. 

If you know what you’re doing, React can drastically simplify how you build, use, and maintain code.

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Building an OpenGraph image generation API with Cloudinary, Netlify Functions, and React

Meet Tailwind, a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces.

Tailwind provides us with highly compassable utility classes but leaves the design specification completely up to the user to maintain that custom look and feel to your app. 

Tailwind is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces.

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Introduction to Tailwind and the Utility First Workflow

Now that we covered fundamentals, we're going to design and implement common components that you will see in the wild. 

We'll start with a basic Vue.js application and some hard-coded data that will be displayed within the application.


Design and Implement Common Tailwind Components

The Navbar is a common component you will find yourself styling in almost any application. 

In this course, we'll style a Navbar for a mobile view with a logo and toggleable hamburger button that will contain nav links.

After building up the mobile view, we will refactor the navbar to be responsive by removing the hamburger menu from the navbar and replacing that with the links directly inline within the Navbar

Build a Responsive Navbar with Tailwind

A menu dropdown is a common component that you will build and style in any application.

In this course, we'll start from scratch, build and style a static dropdown menu and then add functionality to the component so you can open and close the dropdown. There are some keyboard accessibility topics we'll cover when adding interactivity to the dropdown. We'll use Vue in this example but these concepts will apply to any framework. 

After the drop down is fully functional and styled properly, we'll see how sometimes you need to rethink the design of a component when considering the mobile view. For this case, the dropdown is removed entirely and the links shown inline underneath the navbar content.

Build and Style a Dropdown in Tailwind

Figma is a collaborative prototyping tool that allows you to responsively design your applications, with resolution presets for all of the most popular devices. In this course, we will explore the fundamentals of Figma’s toolset that you can use for various design functions. 

We will start from scratch, then walk through scenarios you may encounter when designing a website or application. We will cover building reusable designs — known as “components” in Figma — all the way up to prototyping your designs to show screen transitions and animations between state. 

By the end of the course, you will understand the basics of Figma so you can use it to your advantage when building your next app or website.

Design, prototype, and gather feedback all in one place with Figma.

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The Beginner's Guide to Figma

Figma is a powerful design tool built with web technologies. Using the same technologies you can extend it with plugins.
You can use Typescript and/or javascript, you can load your favorite UI frameworks like Vue.js or React.js and build powerful plugins.

Using a plugin you can:

* Load Real Data from your server and visualize it 
* Change elements in your design programmatically 
* Convert your design to JSX or HTML, the sky is the limit

Learning these skills will help you make your design workflow faster by making Figma doing exactly what you want





JavaScript® (often shortened to JS) is a lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions, most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic, and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

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Create a Figma Plugin Using Typescript

Building your web app with a fully customized design is a daunting task. If you aren't a CSS expert, applying a design style to your markup can consume hours and hours as you try to tweak pixels, align elements, and bang your head on the desk in frustration.

Tailwind provides us with highly composable utility classes but leaves the design specification entirely up to the user to maintain that custom look and feel to your app.

In this course, you'll learn how to handle responsive breakpoints, how to trigger specific element states, how to handle specificity, how to keep your bundle file size in check, and how to seamlessly extend Tailwind with your own custom utility classes.

By the end of the course, you should have a firm understanding of how Tailwind works and be able to create your own tailor-made design system and utility class CSS toolkit for your next project!

Build User Interfaces by Composing CSS Utility Classes with Tailwind

Building your web app with a fully customized design is a daunting task. If you aren't a CSS expert, applying a design style to your markup can consume hours and hours as you try to tweak pixels, align elements, and bang your head on the desk in frustration.

There are options. You can turn to a full-blown CSS framework like Bootstrap to help build your app. But, out of the box, you end up building an app that people will look at and say, "Hey there, nice Bootstrap app."

So if you want a fully custom design, you are back at step 1.

There's a middle way. An approach that gives you the freedom to apply your custom design, but in a way that greatly simplifies the CSS, providing you with core functionality without applying heavily opinionated design to your app.

This is Tailwind, a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces.

Design with Tailwind CSS is a series that teaches you how to build fully responsive, professionally designed UIs from scratch using Tailwind CSS.

Together we’ll build Workcation, a property rental app loaded with interesting details that will help you master Tailwind in no time.


Design with Tailwind CSS Masterclass

Migrate from Create-React-App to Gatsby - Start Project

Theming using TailwindCSS and CSS Variables

In this lesson we'll introduce Tailwind to a basic HTML project and see how it compiles into CSS with PostCSS. Tailwind can be configured in the tailwind.config.js file where you will define plugins for PostCSS to compile.

After that, we'll spin the project up with live-server and introduce styling with Tailwind utility classes. 

Set up Tailwind and PostCSS

Tailwind has variants that you can use when you want to apply styles conditionally to elements. We will start off with the `hover` and `focus` variants.

One thing to note is that not all variants are available to you out of the box (e.g. the `active` variant) to save on file size when you get started with Tailwind. Additional variants can be configured to add functionality.

We'll finish the lesson by combining and adding custom Tailwind Variants.

Conditionally Style Elements with Tailwind Variants on Hover and Focus 

Learn how to style HTML elements with Tailwinds utility classes.

We'll adjust size and positioning with padding, margin, and height as well as style text elements color, weight, and spacing through more utility classes

The Tailwind Utility-First Workflow

The @apply directive lets you compose utility classes so you can re-use common styles and not litter your html with a ton of repetitive styles.

Even when using @apply directives, it's still easy to start repeating yourself in your code. We'll use the multi-class component pattern to extract the common styles into a base class and then styling (e.g. color) can be additionally applied as another class.

Compose Tailwind Utilities with @apply

Tailwind has a set of Responsive breakpoints that you can add to any utility class. We'll see in this lesson how to apply `sm`, `md`, `lg`, and `xl` breakpoints to style according to the screen that you are targetting.

Make Styles Responsive in Tailwind

Out of the box, tailwind generates a lot of css. For example, every background color, text color, and border color needs an object generated for it with each gradient available. In addition, more classes need to be generated for each breakpoint defined within tailwind as well as any variant that is available. Thousands and thousands of utility classes are generated.

Learn how Purgecss can remove all unused classes in your project.

Remove unused CSS with Purgecss

Vue (pronounced /vjuː/, like view) is a progressive framework for building user interfaces. Unlike other monolithic frameworks, Vue is designed from the ground up to be incrementally adoptable. The core library is focused on the view layer only, and is very easy to pick up and integrate with other libraries or existing projects. On the other hand, Vue is also perfectly capable of powering sophisticated Single-Page Applications when used in combination with modern tooling and supporting libraries.

The styles aren't the only thing that can be duplicated - often times HTML structure is repeated in our applications. You don't want to just pull out the styles in a @apply directive.

This is where JavaScript comes in handy. We have the data available to us so we'll loop through that data and build repeated card components with Tailwind

Extract Reusable Tailwind Components

Sometimes you'll need to customize things for the exact look and feel you need within your application. This can range from any number of things like: breakpoints, color palette, and custom fonts.

The tailwind config file, you can customize all the values that tailwind uses for it's utility classes so that Tailwind works for you and your needs.

Customize the Tailwind Design System

In this lesson, we'll be replacing the text-based rating in our card to use SVG icons to signal how the property is rated.

To do this, we'll start with a custom, raw SVG icon that was exported from sketch (best to export as a square SVG for easier styling). One thing to note is that this file is much bigger than you need it to be when it's exported. To clean it up, you can run it through a service like [SVGOMG](https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg) that will reduce the file size drastically. After this, we'll remove the SVG color and sizing and use Tailwind utility classes to style these icons how we'd like them, with `h-` / `w-` utilities for size and `fill-current` for color. 

Lastly, the positioning of the icons will be adjusted with Tailwind's flexbox utility classes.

Style SVG Icons with Tailwind Utility Classes 

Before styling, we'll check out what data we're dealing with by dumping it into the browser to see how it fits with some initial HTML structure.

Once the structure is in place we'll start applying style to the card at the root level. The way I like to think of the root level is the styles that affect the edges of the card and only apply those styles to it. For example, we'll add a background color and border-radius to the card we are styling. If we want to add padding or style to the content of the card, we will group that content and apply the necessary styling directly which won't affect the root level styles.

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