django-tailwind VS crispy-tailwind

Most of our installation is done but we haven't configured Tailwind yet. django-tailwind is already installed with the required Python packages but we'll need to compile this to fully setup Tailwind and make it ready to work in our local development environment.

I'm currently using Django + TailwindCSS to build small apps, sometimes relying on JS or even with some other Django app to handle dynamic behavior on the front-end (e.g. django-formset for improving forms). I've been achieving very interesting results with this stack so far.

I like the way that django-tailwind handles it. Still requires npm locally, but puts some nice management command wrappers around it.

There are many ways to set up Tailwind CSS in Django. One way to do so is by using a package called django-tailwind. This package provides an easy way to use Tailwind CSS in a Django project.

Hi, Thanks for taking the time to reply. I've had several issues with trying to integrate it; the key problem I'm having at the moment is running manage.py tailwind commands in my dockerfile. The example dockerfile requires these commands to be run, but for some reason I am constantly getting a manage.py cannot be found error. I have checked my directories, and it seems to be in the right place, but I cannot seem to resolve this error at the moment.

django-tailwind improved my experience with this stack markedly.

Technically, you can use any CSS framework, including Tailwind, for Django. Most of the time, dropping that CDN into your template will be enough (i.e. bootstrap 5 or bulma) to get started.

Are you using the django-tailwind package?

The docs suggest that custom widgets should only be created by overwriting the class name through the attrs on the widget, but I haven't gotten it to work since the customization needs to be a bit more detailed I think.

Next, install Django and cripsy_tailwind. Crispy_tailwind is the tailwind version of bootstrap's cripsy_form used to style forms templates.

tailwind-crispy-forms is helpful, and a good start.

crispy-tailwind