A simple hexo plugin for postcss rendering.

This package was a user script for using Tailwindcss in HEXO that users needed to install manually. The full detailed guide can be found in the full detailed guide and installed manually as it was before.

For some reason, I tried to use Tailwind in my Hexo blog. I did some research and found one repo that acts as a HEXO renderer for Tailwindcss. Unfortunately, the repo didn't update for years and I kept getting errors due to outdated postcss js. To fix the problem, I cloned the library and put it into the scripts folder.

Now the functionality of this package is borden to support postcss while dropping TailwindCSS support by defailt.

1. Install this package:

npm i hexo-postcss

2. Create .postcssrc.js in your Hexo root folder

Example:

.
├── ...
├── scripts
├── source
├── themes
├── .postcssrc.js
└── ...

3. .postcssrc.js

module.exports = {
    from: undefined,
    plugins: {
      '<your plugins>': {},
    }
  }

Follow How to install first. The steps below are identical to the manual installation guide.

1. Use node js to install modules.

$ npm install tailwindcss autoprefixer postcss-import

At the point of this guide creation, the packages' versions are listed as follows.

"autoprefixer": "^10.4.19",
"postcss-import": "^16.1.0",
"tailwindcss": "^3.4.3",

2. Modify .postcssrc.js

module.exports = {
    from: undefined,
    plugins: {
      'postcss-import': {},
      'tailwindcss': {},
      'autoprefixer': {},
    }
  }

3. Initial Tailwind to get tailwind.config.js

npx tailwindcss init

Yeild:

/** @type {import('tailwindcss').Config} */
module.exports = {
    content: [],
    theme: {
        extend: {},
    },
    plugins: [],
};

4. Modify the tailwind.config.js to render the ejs template

/** @type {import('tailwindcss').Config} */
module.exports = {
    content: ["./themes/<yourtheme>/layout/**/*.ejs"],
    theme: {
        extend: {},
    },
    plugins: [],
};

5. Add main.css to your themes/<yourtheme>/source/css/ folder.

.
├── ...
├── themes
│   └── <yourtheme>
│       └── source
│           └── css
│               └── main.css
├── scripts
└── ...

6. Add the following to main.css

@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

7. Add the main.css to your template (possibly in head.ejs).

    <%- css(['css/main.css']) %>

Up to this point, the Tailwind renderer should be working like normal.

A side note is the content field in tailwind.config.js file. The field should cover all templates that use Tailwind.

Additional notes: In case you want to use plug-ins, just install the plug-in and update the tailwind.config.js

Example:

npm install daisyui

then add the following to tailwind.config.js.

  plugins: [require("daisyui")],

Any new ideas want to add to the project are welcome. Please submit a pull request or open up an issue and we can discuss further.

The original library hexo-renderer-tailwindcss is using MIT license for their project. MIT license is applied for this repository.