Integrating Tailwind CSS and daisyUI into a Leptos Project with cargo-leptos

This is an updated version of Leptos can use Tailwind CSS and daisyUI without Node.js by Marc, reflecting changes in Tailwind CSS v4 and the current daisyUI standalone release. Leptos projects created with cargo-leptos have built-in support for Tailwind CSS — no Node.js, no separate build tool, no npm scripts required. cargo-leptos downloads and runs the Tailwind CSS standalone executable automatically as part of the build pipeline. daisyUI plugs into that same pipeline via its standalone .mjs bundle, so the entire styling setup stays purely within the Rust/Cargo ecosystem. ...

April 20, 2026 · 3 min · 473 words · Felix Itzenplitz