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Tailwindcss installation and setup script for create-react-app
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/** | |
* Tailwind installation and setup script | |
* | |
* STEPS: | |
* Installs tailwindcss | |
* creates src/assets/css folder to hold main.css and tailwind.css | |
* initializes full tailwind configuration file | |
* inserts new package.json scripts commands | |
* | |
* NOTE: you have to import main.css in src/index.js | |
*/ | |
const { execSync } = require("child_process"); | |
const fs = require("fs"); | |
/* ------------------------------ Configuration ----------------------------- */ | |
// directory to keep the css files | |
const cssDirectory = "src/assets/css"; | |
// main css file which it needs to be imported inside index.js | |
const mainCssFile = cssDirectory + "/main.css"; | |
// tailwind css holding the tailwind directives | |
const tailwindCssFile = cssDirectory + "/tailwind.css"; | |
// tailwind directives | |
const tailwindCssStartData = `@tailwind base; | |
@tailwind components; | |
@tailwind utilities;`; | |
// scripts commands to insert into package.json | |
const tailwindScripts = { | |
"build:tailwind": `tailwindcss build ${tailwindCssFile} -o ${mainCssFile}`, | |
prestart: "npm run build:tailwind", | |
prebuild: "NODE_ENV=production npm run build:tailwind", | |
}; | |
/* ------------------------------ Installation ------------------------------ */ | |
execSync("npm install tailwindcss"); | |
execSync("npx tailwindcss init --full"); | |
fs.mkdirSync(cssDirectory, { recursive: true }); | |
fs.writeFileSync(tailwindCssFile, tailwindCssStartData); | |
const packageConfig = JSON.parse( | |
fs.readFileSync("package.json", "utf8") | |
); | |
packageConfig.scripts = Object.assign( | |
tailwindScripts, | |
packageConfig.scripts | |
); | |
fs.writeFileSync( | |
"package.json", | |
JSON.stringify(packageConfig, null, 2) | |
); |
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