Modern CSS with Tailwind, 2nd Edition

Adding Tailwind to Your App

The process of installing Tailwind to a front-end app depends on how your project is managing client-side assets. As such, a complete guide to installing Tailwind is outside the scope of this book and would quickly become outdated. The golden source is the Tailwind documentation itself.^[7] Please check there if you have difficulty installing Tailwind in your specific setup. This section gives a general overview of how Tailwind is installed for most projects.

The Tailwind developers recommend that the easiest way to install Tailwind for most projects is via the Node.js version of the Tailwind command-line tool. Start by installing Tailwind itself:

$ npm install -D tailwindcss

Next, run the following command to create ...