rsnext/examples/with-tailwindcss

Tailwind CSS example

This is an example of using Tailwind CSS in a Next.js project.

How to use

Using create-next-app

Execute create-next-app with Yarn or npx to bootstrap the example:

npx create-next-app --example with-tailwindcss with-tailwindcss-app
# or
yarn create next-app --example with-tailwindcss with-tailwindcss-app

Download manually

Download the example:

curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/with-tailwindcss
cd with-tailwindcss

Install it and run:

npm install
npm run dev
# or
yarn
yarn dev

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The idea behind the example

This setup is a basic starting point for using Tailwind CSS with Next.js. This example also includes the following PostCSS plugins:

• autoprefixer - Adds vendor prefixes to CSS rules in your stylesheet using values from Can I Use
• purgecss - Removes unused CSS
• cssnano - Minifies CSS
• postcss-easy-import - Allows importing one stylesheet into another

Limitations

Dynamically generated class strings will be purged

Purgecss takes a very straightforward approach to removing unused CSS. It simply searches an entire file for a string that matches a regular expression. As a result, class strings that are dynamically created in a template using string concatenation will be considered unused and removed from your stylesheet. Tailwind CSS addresses this problem in more detail in their documentation.