tailwindcss create react app code example

Example 1: create react app and tailwind

1. npx create-react-app .

2. npm i -D tailwindcss postcss-cli autoprefixer 
or
npm install tailwindcss@latest postcss@latest autoprefixer@latest
//postcss - transform our compile css 
// autoprefixer - set vendor prefixes within our css automatically when needed

//Generate npc config file
3.npx tailwind init tailwind.js --full

// Create post css config file
4. touch postcss.config.js

//open postcss.config.js
//add this to the file
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const tailwindcss = require('tailwindcss');
module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    tailwindcss('./tailwind.js'),
    require('autoprefixer')
  ]
}
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5. inside scr, create assets folder src/assets
- create tailwind.css and main.css

in tailwind, add this code
//this will compile to the main css that will include in our app
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@import "tailwindcss/base";
@import "tailwindcss/components";
@import "tailwindcss/utilities";
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6. Open package.json and add this iside the scripts
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   "start": "npm run watch:css && react-scripts start",
    "build": "npm run build:css && react-scripts build",
    "test": "react-scripts test",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject",
    "build:css": "postcss src/assets/tailwind.css -o src/assets/main.css",
    "watch:css": "postcss src/assets/tailwind.css -o src/assets/main.css"
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7. run 'npm start'


add this to index.js
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import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import './assets/main.css';
import App from './App';

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

1. npm i --save react-router-dom

Example 2: commmand for installing tailwind to react

npm install tailwindcss

Example 3: how to setup tailwind for reactjs

npm install -D tailwindcss@npm:@tailwindcss/postcss7-compat @tailwindcss/postcss7-compat postcss@^7 autoprefixer@^9

Example 4: how to properly install tailwind css in react

npx create-react-app react-tailwindcss && cd react-tailwindcss