Tailwind finds “stable, long-term home” with Shopify acquisition

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    "excerpt": "Ottawa-based Shopify is acquiring Tailwind Labs, the Canadian company behind the popular, free, open-source web development framework Tailwind CSS . The news: Tailwind announced the deal on Wednesday both on X and in a blog post . The financial terms were not disclosed. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a computer language used to control the visual layout of web pages written in HTML. Founded in 2017, Tailwind has developed a popular, utility-first CSS framework that helps developers quickly style websites. A 2025 State of CSS Survey found that Tailwind CSS was the most popular such framework, used by 51 percent of respondents. Shopify was one of the first large companies to start building with Tailwind CSS, both internally and for clients . Tailwind founder and CEO Adam Wathan called Tailwind CSS a “very important part” of the e-commerce giant’s tech stack. From the source: “When I started working on Tailwind over nine years ago, my only goal was to create something that would make it easier to build beautiful interfaces for my own projects,” Wathan wrote in the company’s blog post. “Fast-forward to today and the framework is installed over 110 million times per week and is trusted by many of the world’s biggest companies to style products like ChatGPT, X, Cloudflare, Reddit, and Shopify.” The context: As reported by DevClass , Tailwind had been facing challenges thanks to the...",
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