How to use Tailwind CSS in Vue
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Using Tailwind CSS with Vue enables rapid development with utility-first styling, providing pre-built classes for responsive design, spacing, colors, and component styling. As the creator of CoreUI, a widely used open-source UI library, I’ve integrated Tailwind CSS with Vue applications across numerous enterprise projects for rapid prototyping, custom design systems, and utility-based styling approaches. From my expertise, the most effective approach is to install Tailwind CSS with PostCSS configuration. This method provides full utility access, purging for optimized builds, and seamless integration with Vue’s styling workflow while maintaining component-scoped styles and development efficiency.