Hi Chris, Welcome to TailwindCSS community 😅. Couple of things to take care of if you plan on using Tailwind. Enable Purge CSS to remove unused css, otherwise the css that tailwind generates is huge. And Adam Wathan, creator of Tailwind explains in a tweet, when not to use @ apply. Check it out, it might be helpful.
Hope you use Tailwind in more of your projects. I am loving it so far.