dealloc
While working on my new Phoenix 1.6 application I was annoyed that we still need to install NodeJS if we’d want to use TailwindCSS.
Then I stumbled across this blog post that introduces a standalone CLI for TailwindCSS (it mentions Phoenix by name!) to use TailwindCSS without having to use NodeJS.
So I built a small package that pretty much does exactly what esbuild does (which ships with Phoenix), but does it for the TailwindCSS CLI.
The idea is to make straightforward using Tailwind in your Phoenix (1.6+) application without needing to install NodeJS.
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I threw it together rather quickly and it’s my first published package, so feedback is most definitely welcome, and I hope it proves useful to someone besides me.
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chrismccord
Thanks so much! I’ll push the repo up on my side
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dealloc
hey @chrismccord of course! Had I known you guys were working on this I would’ve patiently waited
If you can give me some guidance on how to get that started I’m more than glad to transfer!
chrismccord
Hey @dealloc – Nice work! The phoenix team actually went to start on this very thing today. Any interest in transferring to the Phoenix org so we can own esbuild and tailwind packages without duplicating efforts?
chrismccord
For the hex package:
Then on GitHub, got to the settings page and near the bottom is the “Danger Zone”, and you can click transfer and transfer to the
phoenixframeworkorg.https://github.com/dealloc/tailwind_cli/settings
Thanks for doing the leg work on this! I am beyond excited that we now have a dependency-free tailwind experience for phoenix users!
Last Post!
ani
Tailwind Intellisense 0.7.5 was just released which bundles the tailwindcss cli with the extension. If no binary is found, the extension will use the bundled version provide completions.