1. Add tailwindcss-vite-plugin dependency to your project

# Using pnpm
pnpm add tailwindcss-vite-plugin -D

# Using yarn
yarn add --dev tailwindcss-vite-plugin

# Using npm
npm install --save-dev tailwindcss-vite-plugin

2. Add tailwindcss-vite-plugin to plugins :

// vite.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from 'vite';
import react from '@vitejs/plugin-react';
import { TailwindCSSVitePlugin } from 'tailwindcss-vite-plugin';

// https://vitejs.dev/config/
export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    react(),
    TailwindCSSVitePlugin(),
  ],
});

That's it! You can now use Tailwind classes with "Design in DevTools" in your app✨

For more usage, see examples.

• config
• entry

• Type:

TailwindConfig | string | undefined;

• Default: undefined

Allows you to specify the Tailwind configuration.

When the type is string, the corresponding value indicates the location of the Tailwind configuration file; by default, undefined will look for tailwind.config.js in the current working directory.

When the type is TailwindConfig, no configuration file is read, but the incoming configuration object is used directly.

// vite.config.ts

import { defineConfig } from 'vite';
import react from '@vitejs/plugin-react';
import { TailwindCSSVitePlugin } from 'tailwindcss-vite-plugin';
export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    react(),
    TailwindCSSVitePlugin({
      config: './other-tailwind-config.js',
    }),
  ],
});

• Type:

string | undefined

• Default: undefined

By default, we will automatically inject the following directive when compile:

@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

However, in some cases we may need to customize the @tailwind directive, for example, if we want to use the @layer directive, we need to customize the tailwind css entry.

If entry is specified, in addition to adding our own @tailwind directive, we also need to manually import _tailwind-devtools_.js' in our code :

// src/App.css
@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

@layer {
  body {
    color: white;
  }
}

// src/App.tsx

import { useState } from 'react';
import reactLogo from './assets/react.svg';
import './App.css';
import '_tailwind-devtools_.js';
function App() {}
export default App;


// vite.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from 'vite';
import react from '@vitejs/plugin-react';
import { TailwindCSSVitePlugin } from 'tailwindcss-vite-plugin';

// https://vitejs.dev/config/
export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    react(),
    TailwindCSSVitePlugin({
      entry: './src/App.css',
    }),
  ],
});

For more details, see examples/vite-react.

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