A TailwindCSS Generator for SwiftUI 🎨

IMPORTANT: This repo is highly experimental and extremely incomplete!! Most likely it will not fill all your needs right now, but I'm working on it.

What am I looking at?

This is an early attempt at building a CLI tool (written in Node, though I wish it could be Swift*) to generate Tailwind SwiftUI styles from a tailwind.config.js file.

Imagine writing this for your web app:

export default {
  // ...rest of tailwind.config.js...
  theme: {
    colors: {
      blue: {
        light: "#94B3FF",
        dark: "#649FFF",
      },
    },
  },
};

and using it in your SwiftUI app as:

Text(verbatim: "Wow this is great!")
  .background(Tailwind.Colors.Blue.light)

* This repo is written in TypeScript in order to utilize the resolveConfig() and eval() abilities of Tailwind/JavaScript. I'd love to have this be completely Swift-centric, but it would involve re-implementing a lot of parsing and evaluation logic in Swift.

Why would you need this?

While TailwindCSS is extraordinarily popular in the frontend community right now for its simplified approach to writing CSS stylings, it also holds incredible potential in building and maintaining comprehensive design systems across a variety of non-web mediums (desktop, mobile, tablet, etc.).

With the introduction of SwiftUI and macOS Catalyst in 2019, Apple made it incredibly easy for both programmers and designers alike to build user interfaces for all Apple platforms using a single codebase. It only makes sense that a tool should exist to bring the design systems defined by Tailwind configs into the world of SwiftUI.

Couldn't I just use React Native / Ionic?

You could, but given how easy SwiftUI is to pick up, there's really no excuse to not go native :)

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A CLI tool for magically converting TailwindCSS configs into usable SwiftUI constants :sparkles:

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