Creating a Tailwind CSS component

Tailwind is a very popular CSS framework that enforces a utility-first core principle. It contains classes and styles that can be used in Angular applications to create easily composable user interfaces.

We will use the Schematics API of the Angular CLI to build a generation schematic for Angular components. The schematic will generate a new Angular component styled with a Tailwind container layout.

The schematic we will build does not need Tailwind CSS installed by default. However, the application in which we will use the schematic does require it.

Let’s see how we can accomplish that:

1. Execute the following command to add a new schematic to our collection:

   schematics blank tailwind-container
   

   The preceding command will update the collection.json file to contain a new entry for the tailwind-container schematic. It will also create a tailwind-container folder in the src folder of our workspace...