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Tailwind

This guide explains how to setup Tailwind in your Front-Commerce application thanks to Vite.

tip

You can check the example-extension/tailwind example to see how tailwind can be implemented.

Install Tailwind​

pnpm add -D tailwindcss

Generate Tailwind configuration​

pnpm dlx tailwindcss init -p --ts

Update your tailwind config​

Update your tailwind.config.ts to include files from app/theme:

import type { Config } from 'tailwindcss'

export default {
- content: []
+ content: ["./app/**/*.{ts,tsx,js,jsx}"],
  theme: {
    extend: {},
  },
  plugins: [],
} satisfies Config

If you have components in some of your extensions, you need to add the related extension paths to the content directive.

Setup PostCSS​

Add the tailwindcss directive to the postcss.config.js file:

export default {
  plugins: {
    autoprefixer: {},
+    tailwindcss: {},
  },
};

Inject Tailwind stylesheet​

Create a tailwind.css file in the app folder with the following content:

@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

Then, import this file in your root.tsx like so:

...
+ import "./tailwind.css";
...

You can now start your project and tailwind will be used for all your styles.

Usage

You can test it by loading this module into your app by inject it in your front-commerce.config.ts file:

...
+import tailwind from "./example-extensions/tailwind";

export default defineConfig({
  extensions: [
    themeChocolatine(),
+    tailwind()
  ],
...

And update the tailwind.config.js with this:

/** @type {import('tailwindcss').Config} */
export default {
  content: [
    "./app/theme/**/*.{ts,tsx,js,jsx}",
+    "./example-extensions/tailwind/theme/**/*.{ts,tsx,js,jsx}",
  ],
  theme: {
    extend: {},
  },
  plugins: [],
}

Now you can head to http://localhost:4000/tailwind and check that Tailwind is working.

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