rn-tailwindcss

Use Tailwind CSS in React Native projects

All styles are generated from Tailwind CSS source and not hard-coded, which makes it easy to keep this module up-to-date with latest changes in Tailwind CSS itself.

Install

$ npm install rn-tailwindcss

Usage

Import rn-tailwindcss module and use any of the supported utilities from Tailwind CSS in your React Native views.

import {SafeAreaView, View, Text} from 'react-native';
import tailwind from 'rn-tailwindcss';
 
const App = () => (
    <SafeAreaView style={tailwind('h-full')}>
        <View style={tailwind('pt-12 items-center')}>
            <View style={tailwind('bg-blue-200 px-3 py-1 rounded-full')}>
                <Text style={tailwind('text-blue-800 font-semibold')}>
                    Hello Tailwind
                </Text>
            </View>
        </View>
    </SafeAreaView>
);

tailwind function returns a simple object with styles, which can be used in any React Native view, such as <View>, <Text> and others.

tailwind('pt-12 items-center');
//=> {
//     paddingTop: 48,
//     alignItems: 'center'
//   }

Supported Utilities

Layout

• Display (only hidden and flex)
• Overflow (only overflow-hidden, overflow-scroll and overflow-visible)
• Position (only relative and absolute)
• Top / Right / Bottom / Left (all except *-auto)
• Z-Index (all except z-auto)

Flexbox

• Flex Direction
• Flex Wrap
• Align Items
• Align Content
• Align Self
• Justify Content
• Flex
• Flex Grow
• Flex Shrink

Spacing

• Padding
• Margin

Sizing

• Width (all except w-auto and w-screen)
• Min-Width
• Max-Width
• Height (all except h-auto and h-screen)
• Min-Height (all except min-h-screen)
• Max-Height (only max-h-full)

Typography

• Font Size
• Font Style
• Font Weight
• Font Variant Numeric (only oldstyle-nums, lining-nums, tabular-nums and proportional-nums)
• Letter Spacing (must be used with font size utilities)
• Line Height (only fixed line-heights)
• Text Align
• Text Color (all except text-current)
• Text Opacity
• Text Decoration
• Text Transform

Backgrounds

• Background Color
• Background Opacity

Borders

• Border Color
• Border Opacity
• Border Style (all except border-current)
• Border Width
• Border Radius

Effects

• Opacity

Interactivity

• Pointer Events

Customization

This package exposes a create-rn-tailwindcss CLI for creating a custom build of rn-tailwindcss using your configuration. This guide assumes that you already have Tailwind CSS and rn-tailwindcss installed.

1. Create Tailwind configuration

See Tailwind's official documentation on configuration to learn more.

$ npx tailwindcss init

2. Generate styles for rn-tailwindcss

This command will generate a styles.json file, based on your Tailwind configuration. Add this file to your version control system, because it's going to be needed when initializing rn-tailwindcss.

$ npx create-rn-tailwindcss

3. Create a custom tailwind() function

Use create() function to generate the same tailwind() and getColor() functions, but with your custom styles applied.

import {create} from 'rn-tailwindcss';
import styles from './styles.json';
 
const {tailwind, getColor} = create(styles);
 
tailwind('text-blue-500 text-opacity-50');
//=> {color: 'rgba(66, 153, 225, 0.5)'}

Initializing rn-tailwindcss like that in every file you use it is not convenient. I'd recommend creating a tailwind.js file where you do it once and import it everywhere instead:

tailwind.js

import {create} from 'rn-tailwindcss';
import styles from './styles.json';
 
const {tailwind, getColor} = create(styles);
export {tailwind, getColor};

You could also create an alias for that file, so that you could import it using an absolute path from anywhere in your project:

// Before
import {tailwind} from '../../../tailwind';
 
// After
import {tailwind} from 'tailwind';

API

tailwind(classNames)

classNames

Type: string[]

Array of Tailwind CSS classes you want to generate styles for.

getColor(color)

Get color value from Tailwind CSS color name.

import {getColor} from 'rn-tailwindcss';
 
getColor('blue-500');
//=> '#ebf8ff'

create(styles)

Create tailwind() and getColor() functions, which use custom styles. API of these functions remains the same.

See Customization.

styles

Type: object

Styles generated by create-rn-tailwindcss CLI.