Tailwind + Laravel Mix setup

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Tailwind + Laravel Mix Setup

This is a gist to setup TailwindCSS on your Laravel project. Give me an advice if you have a better idea about this.

How to Use

• Copy and compare this file to your Laravel project
• Run yarn run dev:css to build dev version
• Run yarn run build:css to build production-ready version

Donate

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License

The MIT License (MIT)

package.json

{
    "main": "postcss.config.js",
    "private": true,
    "scripts": {
        "del:js": "rimraf tailwind.config.js",
        "create:js": "./node_modules/.bin/tailwind init tailwind.config.js",
        "dev:css": "./node_modules/.bin/tailwind build tailwind.config.css -c tailwind.config.js -o public/css/tailwind.css",
        "build:css": "postcss tailwind.config.css -o public/css/tailwind.min.css",
        "dev": "npm run development",
        "development": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
        "watch": "npm run development -- --watch",
        "watch-poll": "npm run watch -- --watch-poll",
        "hot": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack-dev-server/bin/webpack-dev-server.js --inline --hot --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
        "prod": "npm run production",
        "production": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --no-progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js"
    },
    "dependencies": {
        "autoprefixer": "^9.6.0",
        "postcss-cli": "^6.1.2",
        "rimraf": "^2.6.3"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
        "@fullhuman/postcss-purgecss": "^1.2.0",
        "axios": "^0.18",
        "cross-env": "^5.1",
        "cssnano": "^4.1.10",
        "laravel-mix": "^4.0.14",
        "laravel-mix-purgecss": "^4.1",
        "laravel-mix-tailwind": "^0.1.0",
        "lodash": "^4.17.5",
        "resolve-url-loader": "^2.3.1",
        "sass": "^1.15.2",
        "sass-loader": "^7.1.0",
        "tailwindcss": "^1.0.3"
    }
}

postcss.config.js

/**
 * Big thanks to the instructions here!
 * https://flaviocopes.com/tailwind-setup/
 */
 
const tailwindcss = require('tailwindcss')
const purgecss = require('@fullhuman/postcss-purgecss')
const cssnano = require('cssnano')
const autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer')

/**
 * Custom PurgeCSS Extractor
 * https://github.com/FullHuman/purgecss
 * https://github.com/FullHuman/purgecss-webpack-plugin
 */
class TailwindExtractor {
    static extract(content) {
        return content.match(/[A-z0-9-:\/]+/g);
    }
}


module.exports = {
    plugins: [
        tailwindcss('tailwind.config.js'),
        cssnano({
            preset: 'default',
        }),
        purgecss({
            content: [
                'dist/**/*.html',
                'dist/**/*.php'
            ],
            extractors: [{
                extractor: TailwindExtractor,
                extensions: ["html", "js", "php", "vue"]
            }]
        }),
        autoprefixer
    ]
}

tailwind.config.js

module.exports = {}

webpack.mix.js

const mix = require('laravel-mix');

require('laravel-mix-tailwind');
require('laravel-mix-purgecss');

/*
 |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | Mix Asset Management
 |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 |
 | Mix provides a clean, fluent API for defining some Webpack build steps
 | for your Laravel application. By default, we are compiling the Sass
 | file for the application as well as bundling up all the JS files.
 |
 */

mix.scripts(['resources/js/app.js', 'resources/js/navbar.js'], 'public/js/app.js')
   .js('resources/js/admin.js', 'public/js/admin.js')
   .postCss('resources/css/app.css', 'public/css')
   .tailwind('./tailwind.config.js');

if (mix.inProduction()) {
  mix
   .version()
   .purgeCss();
}