Wind Boxes

Wind Boxes is a tool for create tailwind & css modules components.

You also can inject new class into css modules file.

You can use array, string and sx prop to change style and create a component.

Introduction

This package requires React, Tailwind css and css modules.

Example Project: https://github.com/windboxes/examples

Installation

NPM

$ npm install @windboxes/react

yarn

$ yarn add @windboxes/react

Usuage

Set Tailwind css module Provider

create a tailwind css module file:

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

Set the Provider:

⚠️ Must be imported, otherwise windboxes cannot be used anywhere, because we can't read class name list

import React from 'react';
import { TailwindStyledProvider } from "@windboxes/react";
import twCssModule from "@/tailwind.module.css";

export default function App() {
  return (
    <TailwindStyledProvider tailwind={twCssModule}>
      {
        //...
      }
    </TailwindStyledProvider>
  );
}

Now you can use in any where in Provider

import styled from '@windboxes/react';

Examples

You can use array or string or template string to create a tailwind css module components

import styled from '@windboxes/react';



// two tag methods
const StyledButton = styled.button(
//...
);
const StyledButton = styled('button',
//...
);



// three wrting styles methods
// e.g. arrays, string, template string

// string
const StyledButton = styled.button('p-3 flex flex-row justify-center items-center bg-indigo-400 text-white rounded-lg shadow-lg focus:outline-none active:bg-indigo-800 disabled:opacity-80');

// template string
const StyledButton = styled('button', `
  p-3
  flex
  flex-row
  justify-center
  items-center
  bg-indigo-400
  text-white
  rounded-lg
  shadow-lg
  focus:outline-none
  active:bg-indigo-800
  disabled:opacity-80
`);

// array
const StyledButton = styled.button([
  'p-3',
  'flex',
  'flex-row',
  'justify-center',
  'items-center',
  'bg-indigo-400',
  'text-white',
  'rounded-lg',
  'shadow-lg',
  'focus:outline-none',
  'active:bg-indigo-800',
  'disabled:opacity-80',
]);

Render result

The length of the class name can usually be customized and can be short

<button type="button" class="aIT _2Mk zAy jk2 fIN rgD DpE MR3 _52r n6G j-O dkR LdE aIT">button</button>

With sx prop

When you create a component, but want to set more styles, e.g. margin or padding or more...

You can try this:

import React from 'react';
import styled from '@/windboxes/react';

const Box = styled('div');
const StyledButton = styled('button', 'p-3 flex flex-row justify-center items-center bg-indigo-400 text-white rounded-lg shadow-lg focus:outline-none active:bg-indigo-800 disabled:opacity-80');
const Card = styled('div', 'p-6 max-w-sm mx-auto bg-white rounded-xl shadow-lg flex items-center space-x-4');

export default function ComponentExample() {
  return (
    <Box sx='container mx-auto min-h-screen'>
      <Card sx='mt-10 bg-[#34eb9b]'>
        I'm a card
      </Card>

      <StyledButton sx='mx-auto mt-20'>
        Button
      </StyledButton>

      {/* or */}
      <Card sx={['mt-10', 'bg-[#34eb9b]', 'text-[2rem]']}>
        I'm a card
      </Card>

      <StyledButton sx={['mx-auto', 'mt-20']}>
        Button
      </StyledButton>
    </Box>
  );
}

Why WindBoxes

If you want create a button with tailwind with css module, Before, it was a nasty thing:

Before

import tw from '@/styles/tailwind.module.css';

<button className={`${tw['mt-5']} ${tw['w-full']} ${tw['flex']} ${tw['flex-row']} ${tw['justify-center']} ${tw['items-center']} ${tw['p-3']} ${tw['bg-indigo-900']} ${tw['text-white']} ${tw['rounded-lg']} ${tw['shadow-lg']} ${tw['focus:outline-none']} ${tw['active:bg-indigo-800']} ${tw['disabled:opacity-80']}`}>
  Button
</button>

Create a tailwind css module components in anywhere

You only need to import CSS modules once, we imported the file from the provider.

You can create custom styles faster with the sx prop, only need use tailwind utilities.

As long as it is used properly, there will be no duplicate css styles.

The processed class name can also be made very short.

a component example

import React from 'react';
import styled from '@/windboxes/react';

// template string
const StyledButton = styled('button', `
  px-4
  py-2
  font-medium
  tracking-wide
  text-white
  capitalize
  transition-colors 
  duration-200
  transform
  bg-blue-600
  rounded-md
  hover:bg-blue-700
  focus:outline-none
  focus:ring
  focus:ring-blue-300
  focus:ring-opacity-80
`);

export default function App() {
  return (
    <StyledButton>Button</StyledButton>
  );
}

// render result with generateScopedName: "[hash:base64:3], class name will random"
<button class="X67 L3p Mrb D2q DpE _7zF qyb fS8 IsM PIm qeX Ihl n6G qw1 CIz YAB LdE">Button</button>

VS Code IntelliSense

You can configure IntelliSense autocomplete on VSCode to see your style config.

Thanks some config idea from: MathiasGilson

Configure

Tailwind CSS IntelliSense VSCode extension:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bradlc.vscode-tailwindcss

// for sx prop
"tailwindCSS.classAttributes": [
    // ...
    "sx"
]

"editor.quickSuggestions": {
    "strings": true // forces VS Code to trigger completions when editing "string" content
}

"tailwindCSS.includeLanguages": {
    "typescript": "javascript",
    "typescriptreact": "javascript"
}

"tailwindCSS.experimental.classRegex": [
    "sx\\=`([^`]*)`", // sx=`...` : for sx template string
    "styled\\`|'([^`|']*)'", // array styled('button', ['...', '...']);
    "styled\\S[^`]+`([^`]*)`" // template string styled, e.g. styled('button', `...`)
]

sx use arrays

sx template string and string

and styled content or more...