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Version: v4

Installation

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NativeWind works with both Expo and framework-less React Native projects but Expo provides a more streamlined experience.

Web: If you'd like to use Metro to bundle for a website or App Clip and you are not using Expo, you will need either Expo's Metro config @expo/metro-config or to manually use Tailwind CLI to generate a CSS file.

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If you'd like to skip manual setup and use NativeWind with Expo, you can use the following command to initialize a new Expo project with NativeWind and Tailwind CSS.

npx create-expo-stack@latest --nativewind

Installation with Expo SDK 50+​

1. Install NativeWind​

You will need to install nativewind and it's peer dependencies tailwindcss, react-native-reanimated and react-native-safe-area-context

npm install nativewind tailwindcss react-native-reanimated@3.16.2 react-native-safe-area-context

2. Setup Tailwind CSS​

Run npx tailwindcss init to create a tailwind.config.js file

Add the paths to all of your component files in your tailwind.config.js file.

tailwind.config.js
/** @type {import('tailwindcss').Config} */
module.exports = {
  // NOTE: Update this to include the paths to all of your component files.
  content: ["./app/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}"],
  presets: [require("nativewind/preset")],
  theme: {
    extend: {},
  },
  plugins: [],
}

Create a CSS file and add the Tailwind directives

global.css
@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;
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From here onwards, replace ./global.css with the relative path to the CSS file you just created

3. Add the Babel preset​

babel.config.js
module.exports = function (api) {
  api.cache(true);
  return {
    presets: [
      ["babel-preset-expo", { jsxImportSource: "nativewind" }],
      "nativewind/babel",
    ],
  };
};

4. Modify your metro.config.js​

metro.config.js
const { getDefaultConfig } = require("expo/metro-config");
const { withNativeWind } = require('nativewind/metro');

const config = getDefaultConfig(__dirname)

module.exports = withNativeWind(config, { input: './global.css' })

5. Import your CSS file​

App.js
import "./global.css"

export default App() {
  /* Your App */
}

6. Modify your app.json​

Switch the bundler to use the Metro bundler

{
  "expo": {
    "web": {
      "bundler": "metro"
    }
  }
}

7. TypeScript (optional)​

Please follow the TypeScript guide.