Use daisyUI with Tailwind CSS CLI

How to install and use daisyUI with Tailwind CSS CLI

Initialize a new Node project in the current directory using npm init -y if it’s not a Node project already.

Install Tailwind CSS CLI and daisyUI

Terminal

npm install tailwindcss@latest @tailwindcss/cli@latest daisyui@beta

Add Tailwind CSS and daisyUI to your CSS file.
Address your HTML and other markup files in the source function.

app.css

@import "tailwindcss" source(none);
@source "./public/*.{html,js}";
@plugin "daisyui";

Add a script to your package.json to build the CSS.

package.json

{
  "scripts": {
    "build:css": "npx @tailwindcss/cli -i app.css -o public/output.css"
  },
}

Run the script to build the CSS file

Terminal

npm run build:css

This command creates a public/output.css file with the compiled CSS. You can link this file to your HTML file.

public/index.html

<link href="./output.css" rel="stylesheet">

Now you can use daisyUI class names!

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