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I like the idea of tailwind, I’ve dealt with raw css and bootstrap before but I’m certainly no frontend developer.

How can I learn tailwind enough to become proficient? Most of the documentation I looked at seemed to lack any tutorial on how to locate the correct classes I need, or any other sharp edges that might exist,

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My process of learning Tailwind involved nothing but going to https://tailwindcss.com/docs, pressing Ctrl+K to bring up the search, and typing the class I'd use in "regular" CSS. Their search is great at picking these up.

Agreed. My team is doing this very process. If we run into not knowing what class to use, we just look it up on the docs. VSCode also has a great intellisense plugin for tailwind as well (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bradlc.v...). For the first day or two we used the docs pretty heavily. Now, we just make a best guess, intellisense generally tells us what the class name actually is, and if we can't figure it out then we go to the docs.

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