{"id":131,"date":"2024-07-28T15:35:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T14:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2024-07-28T15:36:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T14:36:33","slug":"tailwindcss-windows-cli-standalone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Tailwindcss Windows CLI Standalone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is worth your time building a Standalone CLI version of your app \/ ecosystem, but not worth taking 20 seconds to explain properly how to use it? Tailwind&#8217;s github instructions just point to the general installation instructions which don&#8217;t cover it at all. The blog post which has <em>some<\/em> instructions just hints at what you need to do. So, let me do your job for you Tailwind&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Download the .exe file from the github repo.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Move it somewhere suitable (I created a folder in Program Files).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rename the .exe. I suggest tailwindcss.exe.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add the containing folder to your PATH in environment variables (if you&#8217;re not sure, just do an internet search).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can now use it in a cmd windows like &#8220;tailwindcss [command]&#8221; etc. If you have a cmd windows already open you will probably need to close it and open it again.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Ok, maybe 30 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is worth your time building a Standalone CLI version of your app \/ ecosystem, but not worth taking 20 seconds to explain properly how to use it? Tailwind&#8217;s github instructions just point to the general installation instructions which don&#8217;t cover it at all. The blog post which has some instructions just hints at what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-documentation-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}