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tailwind November 6th, 2026

Build a Design System in Laravel: Tailwind v4 Tokens, Blade Components and a Docs Page

The same button exists eleven times with eight different paddings and nobody can say which is correct. This is the complete build that fixes it: CSS-first tokens, typed Blade components with enum variants, deliberate class merging, a components page that generates itself, and the tests that stop the whole thing rotting.

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