tailwind-theme-mirror

A simple tool that provides easy access to your Tailwind theme configuration anywhere in your project.

Quick Start

Install

# install with npm, pnpm or yarn
pnpm i -D tailwind-theme-mirror

Create a script in package.json

Add the executable to any script within your package.json file alongside any other executables you may be using during development of your project.

{
  "scripts": {
    "twmirror": "tailwind-theme-mirror --output ./src/lib",

    //  or run it alongside other scripts

    // "dev": "tailwind-theme-mirror --output ./src/lib && twmirror && vite dev"
  }
}

Creates a tailwindTheme.js file in src/lib

Run the script

pnpm run twmirror

# or if you added it to your dev script
pnpm run dev

Output

//	tailwindTheme.js in ./src/lib
export const tailwindTheme = {
  fontFamily: {
    sans: "Source Sans Pro, Arial, sans-serif",
  },
  extend: {
    colors: {
      primary: {
        DEFAULT: "#1daae0",
        100: "#1a80a9",
        200: "#1daae0",
        300: "#4cbbe6",
        400: "#79cceb",
        500: "#a6def3",
      },
    },
  },
};

Use the tailwindTheme object in your project

Example using Svelte

<script>
  import { tailwindTheme } from '$lib/tailwindTheme';

  const primary = tailwindTheme.extend.colors.primary
</script>

<ul>
  {#each Object.entries(primary) as [key, color]}
    <li style="color: {color};">primary-{key} - Hex: {color}</li>
  {/each}
</ul>

As you can see, this can be incredibly useful if you are working in an ESM based project, where importing CommonJS modules are not natively supported.

Default configuration

By default, the script will search for a tailwind.config.[js|cjs] file in the root of your project, and will throw an error if no configuration file is found.

If a configuration file is found, the script will create a tailwindTheme.js file in the root of your project, which will contain a tailwindTheme object that mirrors the theme object in your configuration file.

{
  "scripts": {
    "twmirror": "tailwind-theme-mirror"
  }
}

Creates a tailwindTheme.js file in the root of the project if a valid config is found.

Setting a custom output path

If you would like to define a custom output path for the tailwindTheme.js file, you can do so by passing the --output flag to the executable, and providing the path to your configuration file.

{
  "scripts": {
    "twmirror": "tailwind-theme-mirror --output ./src/lib"
  }
}

Creates a tailwindTheme.js file in the ./src/lib directory.

Defining a custom name

If you would like to define a custom name path for the tailwindTheme.js file, you can do so by passing in the --name flag.

{
  "scripts": {
    "twmirror": "tailwind-theme-mirror --name myAwesomeTheme --output ./src/lib"
  }
}

Creates a myAwesomeTheme.js file in the ./src/lib directory.

//	myAwesomeTheme.js
export const myAwesomeTheme = {
  fontFamily: {
    sans: "Source Sans Pro, Arial, sans-serif",
  },
  //	...
};

Output as a Typescript

If you are using Typescript and would prefer the output to be a .ts file, you can pass in the --typescript flag.

{
  "scripts": {
    "twmirror": "tailwind-theme-mirror --typescript --output ./src/lib"
  }
}

Creates a tailwindTheme.ts file in the ./src/lib directory.

//	tailwindTheme.ts
export const myAwesomeTheme = {
  fontFamily: {
    sans: "Source Sans Pro, Arial, sans-serif",
  },
  //	...
} as const;