Tailwind CSS variables

Transform Tailwind config file to CSS variables.

⚠️ This version is working only with Tailwind v1 and above, if you still using the old version of tailwind please use version v1.2.0.

⚠️ If you want to upgrade to this version please read changelog to know what has changed.

Installation

Add the plugin to you Project

# Install via npm
npm install --save-dev tailwind-css-variables

Configure

The css variables plugin exposes options for you to use. Here is the example for adding it to your project tailwind plugins.

In tailwind.js or tailwind.config.js search for plugins section and add this lines.

By defauts, you don't need any configurations.

plugins: [
  require('tailwind-css-variables')(
    {
      // modules
    },
    {
      // options
    }
  );
]

Settings

By default this is the current settings where object key is the module and object value is the variable name

{
 colors: 'color',
  screens: '',
  fontFamily: 'font',
  fontSize: 'text',
  fontWeight: 'font',
  lineHeight: 'leading',
  letterSpacing: 'tracking',
  backgroundSize: 'bg',
  borderWidth: 'border',
  borderRadius: 'rounded',
  width: 'w',
  height: 'h',
  minWidth: 'min-w',
  minHeight: 'min-h',
  maxWidth: 'max-w',
  maxHeight: 'max-h',
  padding: 'p',
  margin: 'm',
  boxShadow: 'shadows',
  zIndex: 'z',
  opacity: 'opacity',
}

add Module

You can easily add module by add it to setting and specify a variable name

{
  borderColors: 'rounded',
}

Disable Module

You can easily disable module by give it a value of false

{
  opacity: false,
}

Options

{
  postcssEachVariables: true; // default: false
}

postcssEachVariables

this option will let the plugin generate a css variables as array of colors,screens,fonts and text sizes as this example

:root {
  --colors: transparent, black, grey-darkest, grey-darker, grey-dark;
  --screens: sm, md, lg;
  --fonts: sans, serif, mono;
  --text-sizes: xs, sm, base, lg, xl, 2xl, 3xl, 4xl, 5xl;
}

this will allow you to use postcss-each plugin to loop colors and generate button with background color for example

looping

Let's assume you would like to generate button from you colors.

first of all install this postcss plugins

# Install via npm
npm install --save-dev postcss-each postcss-at-rules-variables

add the plugins to you postcss config file and respect the order.

module.exports = {
  plugins: {
    tailwindcss: "./tailwind-config.js",
    "postcss-at-rules-variables": {},
    "postcss-each": {}
  }
};

now in you css file start looping you color for Example

@each $key in var(--colors) {
  .btn-$key {
    color: var(--color-$(key));
  }
}

this will output this css file

.btn-transparent {
  background-color: var(--color-transparent);
}

.btn-black {
  background-color: var(--color-black);
}

.btn-grey {
  background-color: var(--color-grey);
}

.btn-white {
  background-color: var(--color-white);
}

Output & Name pattern

generated css variables are in this pattern --{variable name}{size|type|color}

for Example generated border width will be --{}{border}{0} and default value will be --border.

The result of this plugin is a :root with CSS variables.

:root {
  --color-transparent: transparent;
  --color-black: #22292f;
  --color-grey: #b8c2cc;
  --color-white: #fff;
  --sm: 576px;
  --md: 768px;
  --lg: 992px;
  --xl: 1200px;
  --border-0: 0;
  --border-2: 2px;
  --border-4: 4px;
  --border-8: 8px;
  --border: 1px;
}

Release History

Checkout CHANGELOG.md file for release history.

Meta

Checkout LICENSE for license information.