Recently, I wanted to integrate Tailwind into Django. All the tutorials that I've found assume that you have Django or Node installed locally.
I prefer to run all my development through Docker to not have to deal with anything locally.
So, I've made this dockerized template for a fresh Django install.
Features:
- Flat folder structure inside /app
- Runs the tailwind watcher in a separate container. Scans the static folder, takes input.css and writes to output.css
- Plays nicely with the default styling of the /admin app, something I had to resolve.
Feel free to modify as required to suit your needs.
- Clone the repository
docker-compose up -d
Because Django now runs in docker, you need to proxy commands to the docker instance. I created a handy script for that.
./django_manage.sh <command>
Example:
./django_manage migrate
./open_shell.sh
To get full access to code completion and the python interpreter, attach to the container once it's up to edit the Python code using Dev Containers.
