Sanjay
Sanjay

Reputation: 25

Command removing tailwindcss in the input.css

When I run: npx tailwindcss -i ./src/input.css -o ./dist/output.css --watch

My output.css gets mostly deleted, and only contains a handful of tailwind css, see image:

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I have to run: npx tailwindcss-cli@latest build ./src/input.css -o ./dist/output.css to rebuild the file which gets all the tailwind css see:

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But when I run: npx tailwindcss -i ./src/input.css -o ./dist/output.css --watch it deletes the output.css again!

I've cleared the NPM cache, re-installed Tailwindcss on a new project and it produces the same issue.

Any help would be welcome, just starting out with backend programming!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 849

Answers (1)

Maik Lowrey
Maik Lowrey

Reputation: 17566

If you use the build command tailwind iterate over your content and check which styles you are use. The other styles are purged. That is a feature of tailwind and makes sure you don't load all the overhead styles you don't use into the CSS file.

Upvotes: 1

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