Windsock - A Tailwind Styleguide Builder

https://windsock.app

✨ Bootstrapped with Create Snowpack App (CSA). Icons made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com

Tailwind is a powerful tool with some awesome out-of-the-box presets for spacings, colors, font sizes, box shadows, etc. But it's also highly configurable, and its documentation only references the built-in standards in its code samples.

Windsock was built after dealing one too many times with the frustration of cross-referencing the Tailwind docs with your project or organization's tailwind configuration file.

If you've ever found thinking something along the lines of...

Why does px-24 not work? It says right here in the documentation it's valid. Oh wait, we defined a new spacing grid for our project that worked better for our designs. Okay so what spacings DO I have to work with?

Then Windsock is the tool for you.

Windsocks are flags that can be used to visually show how the wind is blowing.

Using the App

Simply upload your project's built Tailwind CSS file in the upload dialog on the app's splash page. Alternatively, you can use the default Tailwind config as a handy quick reference! Everything is handled client side, so you aren't actually sending anyone your CSS file. It's all parsed on your end.

Integrating with your CI

Windsock is both a web app and an installable Node app. If your organization would like to integrate Windsock into your CI pipeline to have a statically hosted and always up-to-date reference for the developers in your organization, don't even sweat it. Windsock has it covered.

npm install -g windsock-cli

# Windsock can read from a file, or from stdin
# Windsock can write its output to a file, or to stdout

# e.g.
cat ./my-tailwind.css | windsock > ./styleguide.html

# or
windsock -i ./my-tailwind.css -o ./styleguide-html

Windsock is under active development. Only a small fraction of Tailwind's massive surface area has been covered in the style guide builder. There are definitely bugs and edge cases to be uncovered. Contributions are always welcome.