Tailwind-Merge Is Incredibly Useful — And Here's Why!

In this video, I walk you through an often underestimated problem that arises when composing Tailwind CSS styles by passing a className prop to a component. And show you why tailwind-merge is an excellent tool to work around those issues. Instead of teaching you tailwind-merge works, I teach you why it is so useful. Links tailwind-merge: https://github.com/dcastil/tailwind-m... Enjoying my teaching style? I'm creating an independent Tailwind CSS course called Pro Tailwind. Check it out at https://protailwind.com ❤️ Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:11 Contrived example 0:29 Naive override attempt 1:45 Homemade merge function 2:41 A sneaky source order problem 4:05 Another specificity clash example 5:48 Tailwind Intellisense warning 7:07 The need for tailwind-merge 7:33 The clsx library 8:36 The tailwind-merge library 9:29 The twJoin utility 9:52 The twMerge utility, finally 11:24 Support for state modifiers 12:14 Tailwind merge documentation 12:33 Outro