A dotnet tool to install the tailwindcss cli for windows (x64), macos (x64 and arm64) and linux (x64 and arm64).

Installation

Global install

dotnet tool install --global tailwindcss.cli

Once installed, tailwindcss should now be added to the path and invokable in your command prompts or terminals.

Note: on macos when using the default terminal zsh, globally installed tools will not be found. They will be found however if you use a bash shell.

To add globally installed tools to your zsh profile, edit ~/.zshrc and add the following line:

export PATH=$HOME/.dotnet/tools:$PATH

See: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/9415 for more information.

Local install

dotnet tool install tailwindcss.cli

Once installed, dotnet tailwindcss should now be invokable in your command prompts or terminals.

Installing specific versions

# global installs dotnet tool install tailwindcss.cli --version 3.0.10 --global # local installs dotnet tool install tailwindcss.cli --version 3.0.10

Upgrading installations

# global installs dotnet tool update tailwindcss.cli --version 3.0.10 --global # local installs dotnet tool update tailwindcss.cli --version 3.0.11

Uninstallation

# global installs dotnet tool uninstall tailwindcss.cli --global # local installs dotnet tool uninstall tailwindcss.cli

Bootstrap process

On initial run, there is a bootstrap process to download the platform specific tailwindcss cli binary to be used. e.g.:

PS C:\Users\Duane> tailwindcss Running on windows-x64, downloading tailwindcss cli v3.0.23 using nuget... Package found in repository nuget.org: https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json Downloaded package tailwindcss.cli.windows.x64 v3.0.23 from nuget.org. Extracting tailwindcss cli for windows-x64... tailwindcss v3.0.23 Usage: tailwindcss [--input input.css] [--output output.css] [--watch] [options...] tailwindcss init [--full] [--postcss] [options...] ...