Tailwind CSS 4 cheatsheet

Tailwind CSS 4: Building CSS

3 common Tailwind CSS 4 tasks.

Build and watch for changes

Scan your files for classes and rebuild the CSS whenever they change.

npx @tailwindcss/cli -i ./src/input.css -o ./src/output.css --watch

Build minified CSS for production

Generate a single compressed stylesheet.

npx @tailwindcss/cli -i ./src/input.css -o ./dist/output.css --minify

Link the built stylesheet

Reference the generated CSS from your HTML head.

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

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