diff --git a/examples/with-tailwindcss/README.md b/examples/with-tailwindcss/README.md
index 01e2c622d7a6f..f84c6efcddea9 100644
--- a/examples/with-tailwindcss/README.md
+++ b/examples/with-tailwindcss/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Tailwind CSS example
 
-This is an example of how you can include a global stylesheet in a next.js webapp.
+This is an example of using [Tailwind CSS](https://tailwindcss.com) in a Next.js project.
 
 ## How to use
 
@@ -23,9 +23,7 @@ curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2
 cd with-tailwindcss
 ```
 
-**Running**
-
-To get this example running you just need to
+Install it and run:
 
 ```bash
 npm install
@@ -35,41 +33,20 @@ yarn
 yarn dev
 ```
 
-Visit [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000) and try to modify `styles/index.css`.
-
 Deploy it to the cloud with [now](https://zeit.co/now) ([download](https://zeit.co/download))
 
 ```bash
 now
 ```
 
-### Extras
-
-In the `package.json` you'll see some extra commands.
-
-- `yarn dev:css`
-  - used by `yarn dev` generate css bundle and watch css files for changes
-  - includes css imported into `index.css`
-  - will **not** autoreload browser when css changes
-- `yarn build:css`
-  - used by `yarn build` to generate css bundle
-
-These can be used manually but using the usual commands will run them anyways.
-
 ## The idea behind the example
 
-This setup is a basic starting point for using tailwind css and next. Along with tailwind, this example
-also uses some other postcss plugins for imports, autoprefixing, and stripping whitespace/comments. The imports simply
-allow for an easy way to split up css files but still get one bundled css file in `static/css/bundle.css`.
-Changing stylesheets does not trigger auto-reloads. Setting up auto-reloads was avoided
-because the next.js read me does not recommend doing so. Although, that can easily be done with
-some webpack loaders. If you are curious about using loaders with next look at this
-[example](https://github.com/zeit/next.js/tree/canary/examples/with-global-stylesheet).
-
-This project shows how you can set it up. Have a look at:
+This setup is a basic starting point for using [Tailwind CSS](https://tailwindcss.com) with Next.js. This example also includes the following [PostCSS](https://github.com/postcss/postcss) plugins:
+- [autoprefixer](https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer) - Adds vendor prefixes to CSS rules in your stylesheet using values from [Can I Use](https://caniuse.com/)
+- [purgecss](https://github.com/FullHuman/purgecss) - Removes unused CSS
+- [cssnano](https://cssnano.co/) - Minifies CSS
+- [postcss-easy-import](https://github.com/TrySound/postcss-easy-import) - Allows importing one stylesheet into another
 
-- pages/\_document.js
-- styles/config/postcss.config.js
-- styles/config/tailwind.config.js
-- styles/index.css
-- styles/button.css
+## Limitations
+### Dynamically generated class strings will be purged
+Purgecss takes a very straightforward approach to removing unused CSS. It simply searches an entire file for a string that matches a regular expression. As a result, class strings that are dynamically created in a template using string concatenation will be considered unused and removed from your stylesheet. Tailwind CSS addresses this problem in more detail in [their documentation](https://tailwindcss.com/docs/controlling-file-size#writing-purgeable-html).
diff --git a/examples/with-tailwindcss/package.json b/examples/with-tailwindcss/package.json
index ef22b53c5c1ca..4d710f80b05f6 100644
--- a/examples/with-tailwindcss/package.json
+++ b/examples/with-tailwindcss/package.json
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
     "react-dom": "^16.7.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
+    "@fullhuman/postcss-purgecss": "^1.3.0",
     "autoprefixer": "^7.1.6",
     "cssnano": "^3.10.0",
     "postcss-easy-import": "^3.0.0",
diff --git a/examples/with-tailwindcss/postcss.config.js b/examples/with-tailwindcss/postcss.config.js
index c7cf4143d14c2..16216b2fff476 100644
--- a/examples/with-tailwindcss/postcss.config.js
+++ b/examples/with-tailwindcss/postcss.config.js
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ module.exports = {
   plugins: [
     require('postcss-easy-import'),
     require('tailwindcss'),
-    require('autoprefixer')
+    require('@fullhuman/postcss-purgecss')({
+      content: ['./pages/**/*.js', './components/**/*.js'],
+      defaultExtractor: content => content.match(/[A-Za-z0-9-_:/]+/g) || []
+    }),
+    require('autoprefixer'),
+    require('cssnano')
   ]
 }
diff --git a/examples/with-tailwindcss/styles/index.css b/examples/with-tailwindcss/styles/index.css
index 4352eb2bb0710..2d0bb03d96190 100644
--- a/examples/with-tailwindcss/styles/index.css
+++ b/examples/with-tailwindcss/styles/index.css
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 @import './button.css';
 
+/* purgecss start ignore */
 @tailwind base;
+/* purgecss end ignore */
 @tailwind components;
 @tailwind utilities;