Updated to v3.0: TailwindCSS 3.0 integrated JIT engine that generates the styles you need for your project on-demand. Therefore Tailwind no longer uses PurgeCSS.
I had a chance to integrate TailwindCSS into our existing AngularJS (Bootstrap) app and use it for developing new features. Even though it is hard for the migration, It is incredibly rewarding (Also for migrating Gulp to Webpack and start using TypeScript 😌)
Today I'm checking out Next.js by setting up a starter template with Nextjs, TailwindCSS and Typescript.
Source code for the template can be found here Github.
Create new next.js app
Run the following command in your Terminal and follow the wizard. As a result, a new directory containing the app will be created for you.
npx create-next-app
Start the app
Run the development server and Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.
npm run dev
Create src directory and move pages into src (Optional)
The src directory is very common in many apps and Next.js supports it by default.
cd <your-app-directory>
mkdir src
mv pages src
Support TypeScript
Next.js supports TypeScript out of the box. More info here
touch tsconfig.json
npm i -D typescript @types/react @types/node
Restart development server by running npm run dev, you will see this in the console:
We detected TypeScript in your project and created a tsconfig.json file for you.
Test TypeScript support by renaming index.js to index.tsx and restart development server
mv src/pages/index.js src/pages/index.tsx
Integrate TailwindCSS
Install TailwindCSS, postcss. More information can be found in the official TailwindCSS documentation. Installation, Optimizing for Production
npm i -D tailwindcss postcss-import autoprefixer
Configure PostCSS
Create postcss.config.js
touch postcss.config.js
module.exports = {
plugins: [
'tailwindcss',
'autoprefixer',
]
}
Configure content sources
Create tailwind.config.js add a content array containing the paths to all of your source files that contain Tailwind class names. Since Twailwind uses JIT engine, if you don't configure the content, your compiled CSS will be empty. See content configuration for more detail.
npx tailwindcss init
module.exports = {
content: ['./src/components/**/*.{ts,tsx,js,jsx}', './src/pages/**/*.{ts,tsx,js,jsx}'],
theme: {
extend: {},
},
plugins: [],
}
Add TailwindCSS to your css
Create src/styles/index.css.
mkdir src/styles && touch src/styles/index.css
@import 'tailwindcss/base';
@import 'tailwindcss/components';
/* Your own custom component styles */
@import 'tailwindcss/utilities';
Create a src/pages/_app.tsx file Then add styles/index.css to your application by import the CSS file.
touch src/pages/_app.tsx
import { AppProps } from 'next/app'
import '../styles/index.css'
function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }: AppProps) {
return <Component {...pageProps} />
}
export default MyApp
Top comments (7)
Fantastic, thanks for writing this up.
thanks for writing this post. I've the question that don't we need a script tag in package.json to build tailwind ?
Next.js compiles CSS using PostCSS out of the box. So we just have to customize postcss.config.js to include
tailwindcssplugin. More info can be found here.Hope that helps!
if we integrate TailwindCSS to a project create with
Create React AppBlog post by Christopher, then we might need to install postcss-cli and create a script tag to run postcss ourself.That's really cool.
Works like a charm, thanks!
You're welcome. I'm glad it helped!