If you're a developer, chances are that you've been in this situation before. You're writing CSS for your Django app, and it's not really coming naturally to you. The code is looking sloppy and unorganized, so the whole project looks like a mess! That's where Tailwindcss comes in handy: You can start using Tailwindcss to write clean and organized CSS for your Django application and forget about messy CSS for the rest of your life!
In this post, we are going to see how you can install Tailwindcss for your Django application.
Create a new Django application
- Create new virtualenv and activate the environment
virtualenv -p python3 tailwindcss && source tailwindcss/bin/activate
- Install Django
pip3 install django
- Create a new project and core folder
django-admin startproject mysite && cd mysite && python3 manage.py startapp core
- Make sure your site runs properly
python3 manage.py runserver
- Create static directory
mkdir static && mkdir static/css
- Create a folder for JS
mkdir jstools && cd jstools
Install and setup tailwind
- Make sure you are in
jstools
folder
npm init -y && npm install tailwindcss autoprefixer clean-css-cli && npx tailwindcss init -p
- Add build command to your scripts
Open package.json file and change the
scripts
section to following
"scripts": {
"build": "tailwind build ../static/css/tailwind.css -o ../static/css/style.css && cleancss -o ../static/css/style.min.css ../static/css/style.css",
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
},
- Open the tailwind.config.js and paste the following in it
module.exports = {
future: {
removeDeprecatedGapUtilities: true,
purgeLayersByDefault: true,
},
purge: {
enabled: false, //true for production build
content: [
'../**/templates/*.html',
'../**/templates/**/*.html'
]
},
theme: {
extend: {},
},
variants: {},
plugins: [],
}
- In static/css* create new file called
tailwind.css
and add the following in it
@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;
- Now go to
jstools
directory and run:
npm run build
This generates styles.css
and styles.min.css
- In your template link to
styles.min.css
and voilà you have tailwind in your project
<link href="${static.url('css/style.min.css')}" rel="stylesheet">
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