Tailwindcss: Fall in Love with Writing CSS Again for your Django Application

If you're a developer, chances are that you've been in this situation before. You're writing CSS for your Django app, and it's not really coming naturally to you. The code is looking sloppy and unorganized, so the whole project looks like a mess! That's where Tailwindcss comes in handy: You can start using Tailwindcss to write clean and organized CSS for your Django application and forget about messy CSS for the rest of your life!
In this post, we are going to see how you can install Tailwindcss for your Django application.
Create a new Django application
  • Create new virtualenv and activate the environment 
    • virtualenv -p python3 tailwindcss && source tailwindcss/bin/activate
  • Install Django 
    • pip3 install django
  • Create a new project and core folder 
    • django-admin startproject mysite && cd mysite && python3 manage.py startapp core
  • Make sure your site runs properly 
    • python3 manage.py runserver
  • Create static directory 
    • mkdir static && mkdir static/css
  • Create a folder for JS 
    • mkdir jstools && cd jstools
    Install and setup tailwind
  • Make sure you are in jstools folder 
    • npm init -y && npm install tailwindcss autoprefixer clean-css-cli && npx tailwindcss init -p
  • Add build command to your scripts Open package.json file and change the scripts section to following 
    • "scripts": {
    "build": "tailwind build ../static/css/tailwind.css -o ../static/css/style.css && cleancss -o ../static/css/style.min.css ../static/css/style.css",
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  • Open the tailwind.config.js and paste the following in it 
    • module.exports = {
    future: {
        removeDeprecatedGapUtilities: true,
        purgeLayersByDefault: true,
    },
    purge: {
        enabled: false, //true for production build
        content: [
            '../**/templates/*.html',
            '../**/templates/**/*.html'
        ]
    },
    theme: {
        extend: {},
    },
    variants: {},
    plugins: [],
}
  • In static/css* create new file called tailwind.css and add the following in it 
    • @tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;
  • Now go to jstools directory and run: 
    • npm run build
    This generates styles.css and styles.min.css
  • In your template link to styles.min.css and voilà you have tailwind in your project 
    • <link href="${static.url('css/style.min.css')}" rel="stylesheet">

    79

    Categories:

    DjangoCss

    Tags:

    TailwindcssDjangoUxCss

    This website collects cookies to deliver better user experience

    Tailwindcss: Fall in Love with Writing CSS Again for your Django Application