Creating a plugin using TypeScript

[Nick-Mazuk]

Does anyone have experience using TypeScript to create a plugin for Tailwind?

As far as I can tell, you have to compile the TS into JS, then use the JS version. Any way to use TS directly?

[RobinMalfait]

As far as I know, you will have to compile to JS because of the following reasons:

1. Tailwind CSS itself is not written in TypeScript
2. Tailwind CSS uses the commonjs module system
3. Because of this ^ it can still work in older version like node 8

So for now you will need to transpile it yourself. In the future we might be able to accept tailwind configs that are written in TypeScript directly, but then we need to transpile it. Either transpile it beforehand or at runtime using something like ts-node.

[Nick-Mazuk]

Thanks Robin!

[JNavith]

You may also want to see previous discussion #2310 (comment)