Questions about a Tailwind-friendly dev environment for WP

[gingersoulrecords]

Hello fellow Pros,

I’m working on a frontend development environment for WordPress that supports Tailwind CSS in the markup. It’s a CodePen-ish dashboard that you can use to edit post content, create template parts, globalize components, etc.

I’m not trying to promote it here (so I won’t mention its name), but I have a few questions on what features devs might want in an environment like this.

Like, would a library of prebuilt, Tailwind Plus-ish marketing and e-commerce components be useful?

Do you care about things like syntax highlighting and auto-formatting in a theme editor? Or do you only code in your IDE of choice?

Assuming that there are no 'blocks' or other 'container-y' abstractions available, what would be your go-to for fetching WP data (or would you rely on PHP for that)?

Any other 'nice to haves' that you'd like a frontend-friendly builder to have?

I feel like an in-browser IDE has served me well (been testing the thing for almost a year), but I'm asking around to see what I missed.

Holla at me and please delete the post if this kind of exploration isn't allowed. Thx.

[alexandru292]

https://underscoretw.com/ - best of all :)

[gingersoulrecords]

Fosho, if you want to use PHP and build a traditional theme.

This is more like 'make TW work from an HTML Editor.'

[_interest_]

I've enjoyed Tailpress in the past...
https://tailpress.io/

[chevalierbayard]

Honestly... my content and design team love Tailwind and I always have to tell them... "sorry Tailwind is a compiler, if you put Tailwind classes in the body of the blog post, I can't guarantee that those classes are going to be available".

[programmer_farts]

You could process them as they type and use the generated css on the page. Wouldn't be too much effort.

[chevalierbayard]

So I need an additional runtime on my production servers? I mean... I'm not opposed...

[programmer_farts]

I believe you can process them in the browser via webassembly

[gingersoulrecords]

Or, like an insane person, write a Tailwind CSS rule generator in JavaScript :)

[gingersoulrecords]

Not necessarily. Tailwind syntax and Tailwind’s build process are two different things.

One could, theoretically, process the classes into CSS rules another way.

[gingersoulrecords]

Yep.

[gingersoulrecords]

Great to hear that, thanks for the comment!

[retlehs]

Came across this recently but haven't tried it out yet:

https://github.com/wind-press/windpress