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oliverandrich / django-tailwind-cli

Django and Tailwind integration based on the prebuilt Tailwind CSS CLI.
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adding plugins from node_modules #75

Closed jcuotpc closed 9 months ago

jcuotpc commented 10 months ago

I wonder if there is an easy way to add additional npm packages as plugins to this app. For example I would like to integrate daisyui with django-tailwind-cli and don't know how to start...

Any hint would be very helpful.

oliverandrich commented 10 months ago

This library is intentionally not capable to manage tailwind plugins besides the standard plugins delivered along with the official CLI.

But starting with version 2.7.0 you can point your configuration to a globally installed version of the tailwindcss CLI. As far as I good explore it, this works for me.

Step 1: Install tailwindcss and daisyui globally

npm install -g tailwindcss
npm install -g daisyui

Step 2: Configure django-tailwind-cli to use this version of tailwindcss CLI

Add this to your settings.py. I assume it is installed in /usr/local/bin, but this can be any other path too. This depends on your OS, setup and so on.

TAILWIND_CLI_PATH="/usr/local/bin/tailwindcss"
TAILWIND_CLI_AUTOMATIC_DOWNLOAD=False

Afterwards you should be able to add the daisyui plugin to the tailwind.config.js created by django-tailwind-cli initially.

oliverandrich commented 9 months ago

I close this issue for the moment, as I consider the question answered.