Adding Tailwind CSS to Vue.js

Introduction to the integration of Tailwind CSS in Vue.js

There are several CSS frameworks that we can use to build our application. Please use the CSS framework you are comfortable with. The frontend will be a clone of WhatsApp, and this tutorial will guide us on how to use AWS Amplify to configure the backend. Those using a different CSS framework can skip this section and start from the module “Getting started with AWS Amplify.” Let’s get started integrating Tailwind into our project. The steps that we will follow are given below:

1. Install dependencies.
2. Configure postcss.config and tailwind.config.
3. Add Tailwind CSS files to the project and test it.

Install dependencies

To begin with, we need to install the dependencies for Tailwind.

// cd into your project
cd educative-whatsapp-clone-app

// install the following packages for Tailwind
npm install -D tailwindcss@npm:@tailwindcss/postcss7-compat postcss@^7 autoprefixer@^9

// Install the tailwind forms packages because most applications will at some point require forms.
npm install @tailwindcss/forms