Tailwind Template Builder

A Go-based CLI tool to process HTML templates with Tailwind CSS component extraction and production build output.

Features

• Extracts Tailwind component classes from HTML comments.
• Generates optimized CSS using Tailwind CLI.
• Rewrites templates to use component classes and links to the generated CSS.
• Removes development-only scripts from production templates.

Requirements

• Go 1.24+
• Tailwind CSS CLI

Usage

1. Install dependencies:

go install github.com/accentdesign/twgen@latest

2. Run the tool:

twgen build --help

Tailwind template builder

Usage:
  build [command]

Available Commands:
  build       Build production templates and CSS
  completion  Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  help        Help about any command

Flags:
      --build-dir string        Output build directory (default "./build")
      --comment-prefix string   Component comment prefix (default "tw:")
  -h, --help                    help for build
      --tailwind-cli string     Path to Tailwind CLI (default "./tailwindcss")
      --template-dir string     Input template directory (default "./templates")