Tailwind CSS Standalone CLI: Use Tailwind CSS without Node.js

Tailwind just released a standalone CLI in a self-contained executable, no Node.js or npm required.

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Get started

Download the executable for your platform from the latest release.

Copy it to the root directory of your project.

Rename the executable "tailwindcss" .

Now you can use it just like the npm-distributed CLI tool:

# Create a tailwind.config.js file
./tailwindcss init

# Start a watcher
./tailwindcss -i input.css -o output.css --watch

# Compile and minify your CSS for production
./tailwindcss -i input.css -o output.css --minify

It comes bundled with the latest versions of all of tailwind's first-party plugins, so if you want to use them in your project, just require them in your tailwind.config.js file like you would in a Node-based project:

module.exports = {
  // ...
  plugins: [
    require('@tailwindcss/forms'),
    require('@tailwindcss/typography'),
  ]
}

Refrences

Standalone CLI: Use Tailwind CSS without Node.js - Adam Wathan