How to setup react shared components in monorepo with tailwind, webpack and npm workspace

Previously, we have integrated tailwind and react using webpack. Now we will try to apply it to shared components in monorepo.

.
├── package.json
└── web
    ├── components
    │   ├── babel.config.js
    │   ├── package.json
    │   ├── postcss.config.js
    │   ├── src
    │   │   ├── Button.js
    │   │   ├── Header.js
    │   │   ├── index.css
    │   │   ├── index.js
    │   │   └── stories
    │   ├── tailwind.config.js
    │   └── webpack.config.js
    └── modules
        ├── home
        │   └── package.json
        └── root
            ├── src
            │   ├── App.js
            │   └── index.js
            └── package.json

clone our previous branch: https://github.com/ynwd/monorepo/tree/storybook

install postcss & tailwind packages

npm i postcss postcss-cli postcss-import postcss-loader tailwindcss autoprefixer autoprefixer cssnano mini-css-extract-plugin -D

Update webpack config

const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require("mini-css-extract-plugin")
const devMode = process.env.NODE_ENV !== "production"

module.exports = {
    mode: devMode ? "development" : "production",
    entry: {
        index: { import: "./src/index.js" }
    },
    module: {
        rules: [
            {
                test: /\.jsx?$/,
                exclude: /node_modules/,
                loader: "babel-loader",
            },
            {
                test: /\.css$/i,
                use: [
                    devMode ? "style-loader" : MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader,
                    'css-loader',
                    "postcss-loader",
                ],
            },
        ],
    },
    output: {
        filename: "components.bundle.min.js",
        library: 'fstrComponents',
        libraryTarget: 'umd',
        clean: true
    },
    plugins: [].concat(devMode ? [] : [new MiniCssExtractPlugin()]),
}

Create postcss config

module.exports = {
    plugins: [
        require('postcss-import'),
        require('tailwindcss'),
        require('autoprefixer'),
        require('cssnano')({
            preset: 'default',
        }),
    ],
};

Create tailwind config

module.exports = {
  purge: [
    './src/**/*.js',
  ],
  darkMode: false, // or 'media' or 'class'
  theme: {
    extend: {},
  },
  variants: {},
  plugins: [],
}

Create tailwind entrypoint

/* src/index.css */
@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

Create custom components

/* src/Button.js */
import React from "react"

export const Button = ({ text = "" }) => {
    return (
        <button className="p-2 pl-5 pr-5 bg-red-500 text-gray-100 text-lg rounded-lg focus:border-4 border-blue-300">
            {text}
        </button>
    )
}

/* src/Header.js */
import React from "react"

export const Header = ({ text = "" }) => {
    return (
        <div className="bg-blue-300 mx-auto max-w-sm shadow-lg rounded-lg overflow-hidden">
            <div className="sm:flex sm:items-center px-6 py-4">
                <img className="block h-16 sm:h-24 rounded-full mx-auto mb-4 sm:mb-0 sm:mr-4 sm:ml-0" src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10122431?s=400&v=4" alt="" />
                <div className="text-center sm:text-left sm:flex-grow">
                    <div className="mb-4">
                        <p className="text-xl leading-tight">John Doe</p>
                        <p className="text-sm leading-tight text-grey-dark"> {text} </p>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    )
}

Update react entry point. We import css file also.

/* src/index.js */
import { Button } from "./Button"
import { Header } from "./Header"
import "./index.css"

export {
    Button,
    Header
}

Update web/components/package.json script

{
   ...
  "scripts": {
    "build": "NODE_ENV=production webpack",
    "build-watch": "webpack --watch",
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
    "storybook": "start-storybook -p 6006",
    "build-storybook": "build-storybook"
  },
  ...
}

Compile

npm run build

Go to app root dir.

cd ../../

And don't forget to link the built package.

npm install

Import react-tailwind components

Update root module entry point. Import generated css from components.

/* web/modules/root/src/index.js */
import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
import "@fstr/components/dist/index.css"
import App from './App'
import reportWebVitals from './reportWebVitals'

ReactDOM.render(
  <React.StrictMode>
    <App />
  </React.StrictMode>,
  document.getElementById('root')
)

// If you want to start measuring performance in your app, pass a function
// to log results (for example: reportWebVitals(console.log))
// or send to an analytics endpoint. Learn more: https://bit.ly/CRA-vitals
reportWebVitals()

Update react app

/* web/modules/root/src/App.js */
import { Header, Button } from "@fstr/components"

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <Header text="from root" />
      <Button text="my button" />
    </div>
  )
}

export default App

Still in the app root folder, run this to see the changes

npm start -w @fstr/root

You can see the final source code on this branch: https://github.com/ynwd/monorepo/tree/tailwind