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Why is Tailwind included? Where is it used? Can I remove it? #2948
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Hello! As the title says, I'm wondering why tailwind is included. React-Admin uses Material UI (mui) which offers it's own I've been mostly ignoring it, but today I tried using the RichTextInput and RichTextField and because of Tailwind's preflight, the lists and headers appear unstyled in the editor. I've « solved » the issue by adding tailwind-typography, but then I also tried to remove Tailwind entirely and it works just as well. As far as I can see, nothing in the Admin uses it. I looked around, but:
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Tailwind is optional in React-Admin. The core UI uses MUI, so if you are not using Tailwind classes, you can safely remove it. |
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Sorry if I'm being dense, but your reply seems to repeat exactly all of my points without adding any new sources or new information. To be honest, it feels as if it was generated by an LLM. Did I miss something obvious? If Tailwind is optional, why is it included? If it is going to conflict with MUI and styling the MUI way is preferred, why have it at all? |
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No, I'm human ^^ It's optional as many features and components provided by the API Platform distribution. The idea is to enable most features out of the box. If you don't want to use the Tailwind integration provided by |
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(Haha, The LLM bit I was confused about was for this answer above, not yours. I figured you wouldn't be! Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it at all, my bad.) I see, thanks for the insight! I am not used to such a « maximally equipped » approach (I don't think I even saw this « distribution » approach for web projects anywhere either), but think I see the appeal. It would be nice to mention Tailwind somewhere in the docs, and/or to also include Anyway, thanks to all the work you've all put into this, and for taking the time to reply! |
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It's also used by the default skeleton of the |
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Oh, I assumed that an app created with I haven't used (For the record, the link to the client generator in the readme seems broken: https://github.com/api-platform/api-platform#:~:text=to%20the%20client%20generator. I think it should be this one https://api-platform.com/docs/create-client/ ?) |
No, I'm human ^^
It's optional as many features and components provided by the API Platform distribution.
The idea is to enable most features out of the box.
If you don't want to use the Tailwind integration provided by
create-client(that is also shipped with the distribution), uninstall it.