DaisyUI with Tailwind-cli / standalone

README.md

Important

Only for Tailwind 3 and DaisyUI 4.

For DaisyUI 5, simply follow the official documentation.

The goal is to eliminate Node.js (including jsbundling and cssbundling) as a dependency when using tailwindcss-rails.

The approach involves downloading and bundling DaisyUI once, allowing Tailwind CLI to handle the rest of the compilation, avoiding the need for Node.js tools, as suggested in this issue.

Another reference.

The following script will:

1. Install DaisyUI via npm.
2. Bundle it under ./lib/daisyui/daisyui-VERSION.js.
3. Clean up the Node.js files and folders afterward, as they will no longer be needed.

bundle-daisyui.sh

#!/usr/bin/env sh

npm i daisyui esbuild
daisyuiVersion=$(npm list daisyui --depth=0 --json | grep '"version"' | cut -d '"' -f 4)
npx esbuild ./node_modules/daisyui/src/index.js --bundle --platform=node --outfile=lib/daisyui/daisyui-$daisyuiVersion.js

# Cleanup
rm -fr node_modules
rm package.json
rm package-lock.json

# Output
echo "Add require('../lib/daisyui/daisyui-$daisyuiVersion') into your tailwind.config.js"

I don't think this would work for Tailwind 4

You're right, that was for Tailwind 3 and DaisyUI 4. I'll precise it. Thanks

DaisyUI 5 has the documentation to use a bundled file: https://daisyui.com/docs/install/rails