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Hello,
I’m trying to build a basic Phoenix web-app, and I’d like to use Tailwind.
However, when I launch mix phx.server, I get an error:
** (RuntimeError) The tailwind binary couldn’t be found at: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/releases/download/v4.1.12/tailwindcss-freebsd-x64
sure enough, the Tailwind Releases Page has no release for FreeBSD-x64.
How can I solve this? Is there a way to get a working Tailwind binary (building it from source maybe?) and tell Phoenix to use that instead?
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Schultzer
IMO the best path would be to kick out tailwind and just ship with modern CSS with AI today there is no excuses left for having to pull in a framework that is not portable. Not sure if tailwind’s goal is even to be portable everywhere.
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garrison
Out of the frying pan and into the volcano lol
adamwight
I’m working around this entirely, now: I run
mix assets.deployfrom the development and deployment server, which is Linux. Then I syncpriv/staticinto the source directory on my FreeBSD server, and run themix releasestep there so that it links with native Elixir binaries. Tailwind and esbuild never need to run in the production-like environment.This is awkward but not a problem for my use case.
Schultzer
Yeah, and it could be excellent promo for tidewave too.
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Schultzer
Coincidentally this is the right process for production, you don’t want any development dependencies there, that is a security risk. You want that place locked down.
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