
Rules enforcing best practices and consistency using Tailwind CSS.
While you can use the official plugin prettier-plugin-tailwindcss for ordering your classnames…
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Learn more about each supported rules by reading their documentation:
classnames-order: order classnames for consistency and it makes merge conflict a bit easier to resolveenforces-negative-arbitrary-values: make sure to use negative arbitrary values classname without the negative classname e.g. -top-[5px] should become top-[-5px]enforces-shorthand: merge multiple classnames into shorthand if possible e.g. mx-5 my-5 should become m-5migration-from-tailwind-2 for easy upgrade from Tailwind CSS v2 to v3.no-custom-classname rule if you want to see the warning from migration-from-tailwind-2no-arbitrary-value: forbid using arbitrary values in classnames (turned off by default)no-custom-classname: only allow classnames from Tailwind CSS and the values from the whitelist optionno-contradicting-classname: e.g. avoid p-2 p-3, different Tailwind CSS classnames (pt-2 & pt-3) but targeting the same property several times for the same variant.no-unnecessary-arbitrary-value: e.g. replacing m-[1.25rem] by its configuration based classname m-5Using ESLint extension for Visual Studio Code, you will get these messages

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eslintYou’ll first need to install ESLint:
$ npm i -D eslint
Then, create you .eslintrc.js file
module.exports = {
root: true,
};
eslint-plugin-tailwindcss$ npm i -D eslint-plugin-tailwindcss
Edit your .eslintrc file to use our recommended preset to get reasonable defaults:
module.exports = {
root: true,
extends: ["plugin:tailwindcss/recommended"],
};
If you do not use our preset you will need to specify individual rules and add extra configuration…
Learn more about Configuring Rules in ESLint.
Depending on the languages you are using in your project you must tell which parser will analyze your source files.
Our recommendations:
js[x], react, ts[x]:
npm i -D @typescript-eslint/parsereslintrc:overrides: [
{
files: ['*.ts', '*.tsx', '*.js'],
parser: '@typescript-eslint/parser',
},
],
vue.js:
npm i -D vue-eslint-parsereslintrc:overrides: [
{
files: ['*.vue'],
parser: 'vue-eslint-parser',
},
],
HTML and similar:
npm i -D @angular-eslint/template-parsereslintrc:overrides: [
{
files: ['*.html', '*.blade.php'],
parser: '@angular-eslint/template-parser',
},
],
We removed the default parsers which were added to
v3.8.2because it created negative impact on dependencies resolution, bundle size increase and possible conflicts with existing configurations.
In your package.json add one or more script(s) to run eslint targeting your source files:
"scripts": {
"lint": "eslint ./src",
"lint:debug": "eslint ./src --debug",
"lint:fix": "eslint ./src --fix"
},
npm run lint can do the job on demand but you can also get live feedback using VS Code ESLint extension, just make sure you restart VS Code as it can be required for the plugin to work as expected.
The rules accept settings meant to fit your own choices, make sure to read the documentation of each rule.
Most rules share the same settings, instead of duplicating the options all over the place…
You should define the shared settings that will be shared across all the plugin rules.
All these settings already have nice default values that are explained in the documentation.
FYI, here are the default values:
{
settings: {
tailwindcss: {
// These are the default values but feel free to customize
callees: ["classnames", "clsx", "ctl"],
config: "tailwind.config.js", // returned from `loadConfig()` utility if not provided
cssFiles: [
"**/*.css",
"!**/node_modules",
"!**/.*",
"!**/dist",
"!**/build",
],
cssFilesRefreshRate: 5_000,
removeDuplicates: true,
skipClassAttribute: false,
whitelist: [],
tags: [], // can be set to e.g. ['tw'] for use in tw`bg-blue`
classRegex: "^class(Name)?$", // can be modified to support custom attributes. E.g. "^tw$" for `twin.macro`
},
},
}
The plugin will look for each setting in this order and stops searching as soon as it finds the settings:
validate-modifiers: I don’t know if possible, but I’d like to make sure all the modifiers prefixes of a classname are valid e.g. yolo:bg-red should throw an error…
no-redundant-variant: e.g. avoid mx-5 sm:mx-5, no need to redefine mx in sm: variant as it uses the same value (5)
only-valid-arbitrary-values:
top-[42], only 0 value can be unitless.text-[rgba(10%,20%,30,50%)], can’t mix % and 0-255.We use cookies
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