Mission Control

Thu Apr 09 2026 · 1 min read

Why Tailwind CSS v4 and Vite Fit This Rebuild

Tailwind v4 is doing the visual heavy lifting in this rebuild.

Using the Vite plugin directly inside Astro keeps the toolchain compact. There is no separate theme runtime to fight, and no need to ship excess UI framework code for pages that are mostly static.

This is the right trade:

  • more control over spacing and composition
  • better visual consistency
  • less dependency drag
  • easier maintenance across marketing and product-facing content