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Helitha Rupasinghe
Helitha Rupasinghe

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How to setup a Svelte + TailwindCSS +DaisyUI development environment?

Purpose Of Project

In this post, we'll cover the setup for creating our Svelte environment in Vite with Tailwind CSS and DaisyUI integration.

Getting Started

To setup a basic Svelte app, you can run the following command:

npm init vite my-app -- --template svelte
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...then go into our project folder on the terminal and install the following dependencies:

cd my-app 

# Install the dependencies...

npm install

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...then start Rollup.

# Npm Command
npm run dev 
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Navigate to localhost:8080 and you should see your app running. Edit a component file in src, save it, and reload the page to see your changes.

You should now see this in the browser!

init.png

Adding Tailwind CSS + DaisyUI Setup

So now we have to install Tailwind CSS and DaisyUI peer-dependencies via npm using the following command:

npm install -D tailwindcss postcss autoprefixer daisyui  
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We will now create a tailwind configuration file called tailwind.config.cjs in the base directory.

Add the following code to your tailwind.config.cjs file:

module.exports = {
    content: ["./src/**/*.{html,js,svelte}"],  theme: {
    extend: {},
  },
  plugins: [
    require("daisyui")
  ],
}
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Next, we'll have to create a PostCSS configuration file (postcss.config.cjs) in our base directory.

Add the following code to your postcss.config.cjs file:

module.exports = {
    plugins: {
      tailwindcss: {},
      autoprefixer: {},
    }
  }
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Injecting Tailwind Directives into our CSS

It's best to inject them inside your App.svelte file so they're accessible on every page.

<style global lang="postcss">
  @tailwind base;
  @tailwind components;
  @tailwind utilities;
</style>
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Now that we have Tailwind in our environment, let’s edit our website header to see how tailwind works with Svelte.

You should now see this:

svelte.png

Conclusion

Now if you haven't used DaisyUI or TailWind components before then take a look at an example Svelte project I created with both DaisyUI and Tailwind integration.

You can view it right here!

Go here to view my completed template for this project on Github!

License: πŸ“

This project is under the MIT License (MIT). See the LICENSE for more information.

Contributions

Contributions are always welcome...

πŸ”Ή Fork the repository
πŸ”Ή Improve current program by
πŸ”Ή improving functionality
πŸ”Ή adding a new feature
πŸ”Ή bug fixes
πŸ”Ή Push your work and Create a Pull Request

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Andrew Baisden

Even though I'm not a Svelte user this tutorial was easy to follow.