Learn Mac, Tailwind and Webstorm

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

Bash makes automation easy. Just a few lines of code can take care of repetitive tasks for you and your teammates. 

In this course, we’ll dive deep into the automation potential of bash. You’ll learn to leverage common hooks that open up interesting automation possibilities, like git hooks, adding functions and aliases in your bash_profile, and running scheduled jobs in launchd.

For example, we’ll write a git hook that checks package.json for changes, and if there are changes, the hook runs npm install for you automatically. 

Along the way, you’ll also learn:

- more advanced bash commands like exec
- syntax such as redirecting stdout and stderr to the same destination
- timesaving tricks like brace expansions

Automation is all about saving you time — and at only 52 minutes, this course is well worth yours. Enjoy!

Bash is a Unix shell and command language written by Brian Fox for the GNU Project as a free software replacement for the Bourne shell. Bash is a command processor that typically runs in a text window, where the user types commands that cause actions. Bash can also read and execute commands from a file, called a shell script.

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Advanced Bash Automation for Web Developers

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

Joe Previte is an active egghead instructor and blogger. This is a collection of screencast versions of selected blog posts. You can find his blog here: [joeprevite.com](https://joeprevite.com/)

Joe's Blog Posts as Screencasts

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

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.

Whether you’re a React newbie or you’re ready for advanced techniques, you can level-up with egghead. Explore our in-depth courses, lessons, and community resources to build more powerful applications and crack open your career.

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Theming using TailwindCSS and CSS Variables

`launchd` is a robust scheduled job automation tool on macOS that allows you to schedule a task to be run at recurring times. It's macOS's take on Linux's `cron`. In this lesson, we’ll schedule a simple bash script that empties the Trash to run every Monday morning at 10am. 

First, we’ll create a plist file (a plist file is just XML) with our job configuration. In here, we’ll specify our bash script as the program to run. Then we move plist file to the `~/Library/LaunchAgents` folder. Then we’ll use launchctl to load our configuration file, which will make the job active. We'll manually activate our job to ensure it's working with `launchctl kickstart`. 

Schedule Timed Jobs on macOS with `launchd`

AppleScript is a peculiar language with a COBOL-like desire to read like English, but it's the key to automating UIs on the Mac. We'll use it together with bash to make Terminal open a new window to run any shell command.

Run a Command-line App in a New Terminal Window using Bash and AppleScript

In [the previous lesson](https://egghead.io/lessons/bash-run-a-command-line-app-in-a-new-terminal-window-using-bash-and-applescript "Run a command-line app in a new terminal window") we created a bash script that runs a given command line in a new Terminal window. Now we'll see how to use Automator to make an instance of that available as a menu item in Finder.

Turn a command-line app into a menu item in Finder

In [the previous lesson](https://egghead.io/lessons/mac-turn-a-command-line-app-into-a-menu-item-in-finder) we saved a shell script as a service for Finder. This service takes in files as arguments and opens them in Vi. Now we'll save it as a real Mac App.

Turn a command-line app into a Mac App

Smooth your workflow by opening Finder from Terminal and vice versa at a specific folder.

Jump from Terminal to Finder and back again

I can make a subfolder of the folder that is open in Finder,
but there's no convenient way to make a subfolder of amy other folder that
is showing. Let's add a Finder service to take care of that.

Create a new subfolder of any selected folder in Finder with AppleScript

Create a Finder service that takes whatever you've selected, lets you navigate to a destination folder, and moves them there.

Create a service to move items in Finder to a user-selected folder with AppleScript

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Learn how to access the VoiceOver training and utility preferences on MacOs and how to make customizations to the screen reader.

Access and Customize VoiceOver Settings on MacOS

Learn the basics of navigating through a web page using VoiceOver on MacOS in Safari.

Navigate a Webpage with VoiceOver in Safari

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.

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