Proper Tailwind CSS Theme Setup - Blank Slate Theme

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The issue has even been brought up in the tailwindcss disccusion forum and elicted a response from one of the creators of tailwind:

Unclear how preserveHtmlElements works with Hugo · tailwindlabs/tailwindcss ·...

I have also read this post from 22 days ago and tried getting it working with what was mentioned:

Proper way to set up theme with node dependencies

@schwartzmj i had my fair share of challenges in blending tailwind with hugo and below is the gist for your queries, i can write a follow up for my initial blog post if you can elaborate your needs and below answer doesn’t solve your queries in full. Code snippet taken from https://github.com/leelavg/thoughtexpo How does this transfer to a development environment and to deployment? In case of Hugo with Tailwind, we potentially need purgeCSS in deployment and faster renders in development For…

Is it possible for one of the community leaders to create an authoritative example on how to use Hugo with Tailwind CSS?

It was an absolute pain to get it working with Jekyll and use the native purge functionality, but I was able to.

I’d hate to see such a large community like Tailwind CSS to be left out of giving Hugo a try because it’s not well documented.

Thanks again for your help. Hugo has been an absolute pleasure to work with so far. It’s blown my mind.