Installation
Install Tailwind CSS with Create React App
Setting up Tailwind CSS in a Create React App project.
We highly recommend using Vite, Next.js, Remix, or Parcel instead of Create React App. They provide an equivalent or better developer experience but with more flexibility, giving you more control over how Tailwind and PostCSS are configured. Create React App does not support custom PostCSS configurations, so you can't use
Create React App does not support custom PostCSS configurations and is incompatible with many important tools in the PostCSS ecosystem, like `postcss-import`
.
We highly recommend using Vite, Parcel, Next.js, or Remix instead of Create React App. They provide an equivalent or better developer experience but with more flexibility, giving you more control over how Tailwind and PostCSS are configured.
Create your project
Start by creating a new React project with Create React App v5.0+ if you don't have one already set up.
Terminalnpx create-react-app my-projectcd my-project
Install Tailwind CSS
Install
tailwindcss
via npm, and then run the init command to generate yourtailwind.config.js
file.Terminalnpm install -D tailwindcssnpx tailwindcss init
Configure your template paths
Add the paths to all of your template files in your
tailwind.config.js
file.tailwind.config.js/** @type {import('tailwindcss').Config} */ module.exports = { content: [ "./src/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}", ], theme: { extend: {}, }, plugins: [], }
Add the Tailwind directives to your CSS
Add the
@tailwind
directives for each of Tailwind’s layers to your./src/index.css
file.index.css@tailwind base; @tailwind components; @tailwind utilities;
Start your build process
Run your build process with
npm run start
.Terminalnpm run start
Start using Tailwind in your project
Start using Tailwind’s utility classes to style your content.
App.jsexport default function App() { return ( <h1 className="text-3xl font-bold underline"> Hello world! </h1> ) }