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