---
title: "The CSS / Utility hybrid approach with Tailwind v4"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-css-utility-hybrid-approach-with-tailwind-v4-n6chmveep
source_url: https://www.thisdot.co/blog/the-css-utility-hybrid-approach-with-tailwind-v4
type: article
source: "This Dot"
published: 2024-05-10T13:10:12.099Z
updated: 2024-05-10T13:10:11.386Z
tags: ["webdev", "css", "tailwind-css"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 5
comments: 3
language: en
---

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# The CSS / Utility hybrid approach with Tailwind v4

**[This Dot](https://daily.dev/sources/thisdot)** · 7 min read · 5 upvotes · 3 comments

## Summary

Learn about the CSS + Tailwind hybrid approach in Tailwind v4, including best practices for combining CSS with utility classes, the advantages of the hybrid approach, and interesting utility hybrid patterns when combining modern CSS with utility classes.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@ghost** · 2 upvotes

> How to reinventing SCSS and mixins without saying you're reinventing SCSS and mixins

**@juagarc4** · 0 upvotes

> Really. On each new update I'm more and more convinced that reject using Tailwind was and is a good decision.
>
> For example:
>
> "Classes as components
> Tailwind has always recommended using a component system for your UI components ... like buttons, badges, links.
> You can use Tailwind CSS with the @apply directive or traditional class definitions for this:
>
> .badge {
> 	 @apply inline-flex items-center gap-x-1.5 rounded-md py-0.5 text-sm/5 font-medium sm:text-xs/5;
> }
> <span class="badge badge--yellow">Warning</span>
> "
>
> What is exactly what you do defining your (S)CSS without using Tailwind....

**@buckrussell** · 0 upvotes

> No matter how many times I tell myself I am going to stick to pure tailwind on my next project, I always end up hybrid.

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