I am currently building a react-express web app and today I ran into many bugs, The first issue was with Webpack-5. I solved it by downgrading the version to 4.0.3 but when I started the react-app, the CSS was not working so I thought it might be an error with Node JS version so I installed the latest version but that caused another bug so I installed the LTS 16.15.1 version but the CSS still did not work. So the next thing I did was reinstall tailwind but that still did not fix it. I don't receive any error messages in the console or in the terminal.
tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
content: [
"./src/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}",
],
theme: {
extend: {},
},
plugins: [],
}
postcss.config.js
export const plugins = {
tailwindcss: {},
autoprefixer: {},
};
package.json
"devDependencies": {
"autoprefixer": "^10.4.7",
"postcss": "^8.4.14",
"sass": "^1.52.1",
"tailwindcss": "^3.1.3",
"typescript": "^4.7.3"
}
Here is the link to the project if that helps in any way.
I had the same issue, the solution for me was in the content array in the tailwind.config.json where I specified the path to the folder where I what the styles to get applied
module.exports = {
content: [
"./pages/**/*.{js,ts,jsx,tsx}",
"./components/**/*.{js,ts,jsx,tsx}",
"./page-section/**/*.{js,ts,jsx,tsx}",
],
theme: {
extend: {
colors: {
primary: "#366B45"
},
fontFamily: {
sans: ["Inter", "sans-serif"],
},
},
},
plugins: [],
};
I finally fixed the issue by following this: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/02/tailwindcss-react-project/.
But am still not sure why it stopped working suddenly. The only problem with this solution is that on npm start it builds the CSS and outputs it to another file. The problem with that is that I have to restart the server everytime I make a change to the CSS.
Try to add the following in the index.css file
#tailwind base;
#tailwind components;
#tailwind utilities;
How to write nested CSS with TailWind in Nuxt?
Tailwind recommends to not use preprocessors like Sass or less and recommends it's better to use postcss-nested and import...
I tried and searched too much to use it I couldn't
I only added this config to add css nesting ability as I searched
build: {
postcss: {
plugins: {
'postcss-import': true,
'tailwindcss/nesting': {},
'postcss-nested': {},
},
},
splitChunks: {
layouts: true
}
},
And this is my tailwind config file codes
module.exports = {
mode: 'jit',
darkMode: true, // or 'media' or 'class'
theme: {
extend: {
},
},
variants: {
extend: {},
},
purge: {
content: [
`components/**/*.{vue,js}`,
`layouts/**/*.vue`,
`pages/**/*.vue`,
`plugins/**/*.{js,ts}`,
`nuxt.config.{js,ts}`
]
},
plugins: [],
}
this is my package.json file I've installed these:
#nuxtjs/tailwindcss - postcss - postcss-import - postcss-nested
Now when I try to write nested CSS I get error
I want to be able to write nested in components and in seprate css files alongside tailwind!
In vue components style section I try to write like this:
<style lang="postcss" scoped>
.test {
color:blue;
.ok{
color:red;
}
}
</style>
But it doesn't work
I am trying to build my storybook with tailwind css. When running build-storybook the components are rendered with the tailwind classes. Unfortunately, when I build storybook and run the create build storybook-static with npx http-server storybook-static the classes are not loaded into the stories and the components are displayed not styled.
This is a repro repo of my project:
https://gitlab.com/ens.evelyn.development/storybook-issue
This is my main.js :
const path = require('path')
module.exports = {
"stories": [
"../src/components/**/**/*.stories.mdx",
"../src/components/**/**/*.stories.#(js|jsx|ts|tsx)"
],
"addons": [
"#storybook/addon-links",
"#storybook/addon-essentials",
{
name: '#storybook/addon-postcss',
options: {
postcssLoaderOptions: {
implementation: require('postcss'),
},
},
},
"#storybook/addon-actions",
"storybook-tailwind-dark-mode"
]}
My Projectstructure looks like this:
.storybook
src
components
subdir
Button
index.tsx
button.stories.js
styles
index.css (<-- tailwindcss file)
Any hints or advice is very appreciated.
UPDATE: My original answer could be useful to others, so I'll leave it for reference. However, in this case, the problem was in tailwind.config.js.
Change
purge: {
mode: 'all',
content: [
'./src/components/**/**/*.{ts, tsx}'
],
},
to
purge: ['./src/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}'],
ORIGINAL:
Just tested it out and storybook builds as expected for me. I think the key difference in our configurations is that I am not making changes to Storybook's webpack config in main.js. Rather, I am using #storybook/addon-postcss for postcss#^8 (required for tailwind#^2):
// main.js
module.exports = {
...
addons: [
...
{
name: '#storybook/addon-postcss',
options: {
postcssLoaderOptions: {
implementation: require('postcss'),
},
},
},
],
};
I specify the necessary plugins in a postcss.config.js (in my project root):
// postcss.config.js
module.exports = {
plugins: {
tailwindcss: {},
autoprefixer: {},
},
}
It's also worth noting that I import Tailwind directly in Storybook's preview.js instead via my own css file:
// preview.js
import 'tailwindcss/tailwind.css';
export const parameters = {...}
Hopefully, making those changes will get Tailwind working for you.
For comparison (see comments below), here are the contents of my build storybook-static directory:
The above solutions will not work for Tailwind version > 3.0 because of JIT compiler.
Solution 1: Easy solution
in .storybook/preview.js file add this line to compile tailwind generated css files like this -
import '!style-loader!css-loader!postcss-loader!tailwindcss/tailwind.css';
Here tailwindcss/tailwind.css is the tailwind css file. Look, important is I've to add !postcss-loader! to compile tailwind generated css.
You can add also your custom scss file like this if any -
import '!style-loader!css-loader!sass-loader!../src/scss/style.scss';
Here ../src/scss/style.scss is custom scss file.
For most of the people this will work in Tailwind version > 3.0 without any issue.
Solution 2: Kinda Hack solution
Create a custom styled element in preview page
import tailwindCss from '!style-loader!css-loader!postcss-loader!sass-loader!tailwindcss/tailwind.css';
const storybookStyles = document.createElement('style');
storybookStyles.innerHTML = tailwindCss;
document.body.appendChild(storybookStyles);
Hope, this will help for new Tailwind users who are working in Tailwind greater than v3.0.
I had a similar problem. My problem was solved by adding:
import "../src/index.css"; to .storybook/preview.js
The following configuration will enable so Tailwind generate CSS as new tailwind classes are added to the markup in dev mode (hot reload).
In summary, I don't think #storybook/addon-postcss works with Tailwind JIT and Storybook hot reload, and the workaround is to use the postcss-loader webpack loader.
Install these deps:
#storybook/builder-webpack5
#storybook/manager-webpack5
postcss-loader
webpack (must be version 5)
// .storybook/main.js
const path = require("path");
module.exports = {
stories: ["../src/**/*.stories.mdx", "../src/**/*.stories.#(js|jsx|ts|tsx)"],
addons: [
"#storybook/addon-links",
"#storybook/addon-essentials",
"#storybook/addon-interactions",
// {
// name: "#storybook/addon-postcss",
// options: {
// postcssLoaderOptions: {
// implementation: require("postcss"),
// },
// },
// },
],
framework: "#storybook/react",
core: {
builder: "webpack5",
},
webpackFinal: (config) => {
config.module.rules.push({
test: /\.css$/,
use: [
{
loader: "postcss-loader",
options: {
postcssOptions: {
plugins: [require("tailwindcss"), require("autoprefixer")],
},
},
},
],
include: path.resolve(__dirname, "../"),
});
return config;
},
};
// .storybook/preview.js
import "../styles/globals.css";
export const parameters = {
actions: { argTypesRegex: "^on[A-Z].*" },
controls: {
matchers: {
color: /(background|color)$/i,
date: /Date$/,
},
},
};
// postcss.config.js
module.exports = {
plugins: {
tailwindcss: {},
autoprefixer: {},
},
};
if you using storybook with TSdx and tailwind css you should be able to import a CSS into components
To be able to import your CSS into components, you will need to tell
TSDX how to include it with your code. For that, you will need to
install rollup-plugin-postcss (as TSDX uses rollup).
Create a CSS file in your src directory which we will use in any
component in which we want to use Tailwind.
Alright, so now let's add rollup-plugin-postcss:
yarn add -D rollup-plugin-postcss
TSDX is fully customizable and you can add any rollup plugin, but be aware that it overrides the default behavior
Now you'll create a
tsdx.config.js
// tsdx.config.js
const postcss = require('rollup-plugin-postcss');
module.exports = {
rollup(config, options) {
config.plugins.push(
postcss({
config: {
path: './postcss.config.js',
},
extensions: ['.css'],
minimize: true,
inject: {
insertAt: 'top',
},
})
);
return config;
},
};
This is giving a postCSS path, which tells it what files you want it to run on. The minimize key is to allow you to minimize the output. The most important key here is the "inject". you set it to "top" to tell postCSS where inside the of our page the CSS will be inserted. It's paramount for Tailwind as it needs to have the utmost priority of any other stylesheet.
Next, for part 2, you will create a tailwind.css (can be named anything else) file under the src directory and paste this in:
// src/tailwind.css
#tailwind base;
#tailwind components;
#tailwind utilities;
Add the CSS import statement to your component
// src/Thing.tsx
import React, { FC, HTMLAttributes, ReactChild } from 'react';
// ! Add the CSS import statement !
import './tailwind.css`;
// ...
// we'll add some Tailwind classes on our components to test
export const Thing: FC<Props> = ({ children }) => {
return (
<div className="flex items-center justify-center w-5/6 m-auto text-2xl text-center text-pink-700 uppercase bg-blue-300 shadow-xl rounded-3xl">
{children || `the snozzberries taste like snozzberries`}
</div>
);
};
For those who are still having this problem and is using postcss >= 8, I suggest you to do as following.
Add this to tailwind.config.js
// eslint-disable-next-line #typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
const path = require("path")
module.exports = {
content: [path.join(__dirname, "./src/**/*.(js|jsx|ts|tsx)")],
theme: {
extend: {},
},
variants: {}
plugins: [],
}
Add this to preview.js
import "!style-loader!css-loader!postcss-loader!tailwindcss/tailwind.css"
export const parameters = {
actions: { argTypesRegex: "^on[A-Z].*" },
controls: {
matchers: {
color: /(background|color)$/i,
date: /Date$/,
},
},
}
This has helped me fix the problem and I hope it can help you too
I couldn't work this out and the above answered didn't work for me, so I eventually just set my build-storybook script to run tailwind itself after the build. package.json scripts looked like this in the end:
"build-storybook": "build-storybook -s public && $(npm bin -g)/tailwindcss -i storybook-static/static/css/main.*.chunk.css -o storybook-static/static/css/main.*.chunk.css -m",
Bit of a mess, but $(npm bin -g)/ here uses my globally installed (npm i -g tailwindcss) version of tailwindcss as the version installed to the project wasn't working in builds for me.
-i and -o specifies the input and output files, and -m minifies the output.
I can foresee this causing problems if more than one CSS file gets built (maybe using storybook-static/static/css/**/*.css would work instead?), but this might help someone just get something working.
When you try to create a storybook while using Tailwind CSS, you will notice that the CSS is not being applied. There is a simple solution that has helped me.
Your preview.js should be like.
export const parameters = {
actions: { argTypesRegex: "^on[A-Z].*" },
controls: {
matchers: {
color: /(background|color)$/i,
date: /Date$/,
},
},
};
And you will need to add the following line in the preview.js to fix it.
// Add the below import line
import "!style-loader!css-loader!postcss-loader!tailwindcss/tailwind.css";
export const parameters = {
actions: { argTypesRegex: "^on[A-Z].*" },
controls: {
matchers: {
color: /(background|color)$/i,
date: /Date$/,
},
},
};
However this will be a temporary fix.
To get this resolved completely, you will need to add the below mentioned package.
yarn add -D #storybook/addon-postcss
For reference, click here
How to add postcss
The solutions mentioned above worked but only partially.
I was facing 2 issues:
If I added new classes to stories then tailwind was not adding corresponding styles associated with the classes.
Hot reloading wasn't working.
Solution:
Add the path to the stories folder in the tailwind.config.js file.
module.exports = {
content: [
"./pages/**/*.{js,ts,jsx,tsx}",
"./components/**/*.{js,ts,jsx,tsx}",
"./stories/**/*.{js,ts,jsx,tsx}", //needed to make hot reload work with stories
],
theme: {},
plugins: [],
}
I want to use Bootstrap's alert.js plugin as a front-end asset, but can not figure out how to make it work using brunch-config.js and npm.
At the moment I have such brunch config (it adds jQuery and Bootstrap css to assets):
exports.config = {
files: {
javascripts: {
joinTo: "js/app.js"
},
stylesheets: {
joinTo: "css/app.css"
},
templates: {
joinTo: "js/app.js"
}
},
conventions: {
assets: /^(web\/static\/assets)/
},
paths: {
watched: [
"web/static",
"test/static"
],
public: "priv/static"
},
plugins: {
babel: {
ignore: [/web\/static\/vendor/]
}
},
modules: {
autoRequire: {
"js/app.js": ["web/static/js/app"]
}
},
npm: {
enabled: true,
whitelist: ["phoenix", "phoenix_html", "jquery", "bootstrap"],
globals: {
$: 'jquery',
jQuery: 'jquery'
},
styles: {
bootstrap: ['dist/css/bootstrap.css']
}
}
};
Plugin file is here - ./node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/umd/alert.js.
One more thing: with this config Brunch actually does something and adds to /js/app.js the needed ./node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/boostrap.js file which already contains the Alert plugin.
jQuery works properly, Bootstrap css works also. The only problem - Bootstrap js plugins (there are no warnings in console).
In my package.json I have this version of Bootstrap:
{
"repository": {},
"dependencies": {
"babel-brunch": "~6.0.0",
"bootstrap": "^4.0.0-alpha.2",
"brunch": "~2.1.3",
"clean-css-brunch": "~1.8.0",
"css-brunch": "~1.7.0",
"javascript-brunch": "~1.8.0",
"jquery": "^2.2.3",
"phoenix": "file:deps/phoenix",
"phoenix_html": "file:deps/phoenix_html",
"uglify-js-brunch": "~1.7.0"
}
}
Adding require("bootstrap"); to the end of app.js solved the problem for me. I'm far from understanding brunch / bootstrap properly, but AFAIK the javascript side of bootstrap is just a collection of plugins for jQuery. Requiring bootstrap adds the plugins to the global jQuery object (already presented in your brunch-config.js).