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
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?
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
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!
dealloc
I transferred ownership for the hex package, but when I try to move the Github repository into
phoenixframeworkI get the error “You don’t have permission to create public repositories on phoenixframework”any workaround?
I was so excited when I came across the dependency free Tailwind CLI that I just had to integrate it, esbuild did it so effortlessly I couldn’t resist building something similar
chrismccord
Thanks so much! I’ll push the repo up on my side
Sebb
How can I use Tailwind CSS IntelliSense - Visual Studio Marketplace when installing tailwind with this package?
I get this error from the plugin:
So the plugin finds the generated
tailwind.config.jsbut nottailwindcss.When I install with
the plugin works.
chrismccord
You’ll need to copy the binary to somewhere in your $PATH if the vscode plugin requires it to be available globally
Sebb
I copied
_build/tailwind-linux-x64to the path, also tried renaming totailwindcss- still does not work. Alsonpm i -g tailwindcssdoes not work.sodapopcan
This is really very exciting! And kudos to the tailwind folks for accommodating to those of us who don’t care much for nodejs.
andrewb
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.