Tailwind without NodeJS

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.

Switched my app from node tailwind to tailwindcss and got rid of all development dependencies including postcss. I already have nodejs setup for other js files, but it’s still better to have a dedicated package take care of tailwind.

Thanks everyone included in the effort.

ah, sorry, I misread npm install -D as npm install -g. Sounds like the vscode package loads it from the local node_modules directory, so I don’t think there is anything that we can solve without the extension supporting finding it elsewhere

Hey @Sebb , I think that’s a bug in the vscode extension. This github issue is a bit of a grab-bag but some of the comments down thread make it clear others are having issues getting tailwindcss-intellisense to find the standalone tailwindcss executable.

I’m keeping a watch on that issue. In the meantime I’ve npm installed tailwind in my assets folder, just for the extension’s use, and excluded all the resulting node cruft in .gitignore. Ugly, but I find it just about worthwhile as a workaround.

Thanks @dealloc and @chrismccord, I heard about this today and spent 15 mins updating my blog to remove NodeJS and the other dependencies.

It all worked a treat and I documented what I did here.

Thanks again guys.

This is really very exciting! And kudos to the tailwind folks for accommodating to those of us who don’t care much for nodejs.

I copied _build/tailwind-linux-x64 to the path, also tried renaming to tailwindcss - still does not work. Also npm i -g tailwindcss does not work.

You’ll need to copy the binary to somewhere in your $PATH if the vscode plugin requires it to be available globally

How can I use Tailwind CSS IntelliSense - Visual Studio Marketplace when installing tailwind with this package?

I get this error from the plugin:

[Error - 11:10:05 AM] Tailwind CSS: Can't resolve 'tailwindcss' in '/<path-to-app>/assets'

So the plugin finds the generated tailwind.config.js but not tailwindcss.

When I install with

npm install -D tailwindcss

the plugin works.

Thanks so much! I’ll push the repo up on my side