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Building My Personal Site with Go and TailwindCSS

Andrew Davis on December 17, 2018

Recently, I found the domain andrewdavis.me available for purchase. I tried to buy it in the past, but it was already taken. I quickly purchased th...
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Elliot Derhay

Tailwind++. I'd like to also recommend PurgeCSS if you're not using that yet.

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Elliot Derhay

Also, nice and simple idea for your personal site. Simple bio, simple post feed. I may have to look at SimpleMDE for Markdown now too.

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Andrew Davis

Thanks for the recommendation. I have been wanting to set up PurgeCSS.

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Elliot Derhay

It's a wonderful tool for sure. Tailwind is the first CSS framework of its kind that I've used (generated completely from a JS config file), so I haven't yet learned to tune the config enough to remove what I don't need while keeping what I definitely want.

PurgeCSS made this far less painful though. Now I do get to keep some variations of things that I'll end up using and completely removing any other class variations that don't appear anywhere in my source.

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Robin Kretzschmar

Tailwind was new to me, looks promising for my next side project so I'll give it a try. Thanks for mentioning it :)

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Andrew Davis

It’s definitely worth the time to learn it.

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Alexandru Trandafir

How did you do the code syntax highlight in the posts?

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Steve Layton

Very cool! I just started to plan to build out a site with Go, I may have to check out SimpleMDE!

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Andrew Davis

TailwindCSS is great, thanks for reading!

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Theofanis Despoudis

You will probably don't need to have a backend if you have a static site. I'm currently building a community site using Gatsby.js and it works great. I will check out Tailwind.css though