Create project
Start by creating a new Astro project:
Configure your Astro project
You will be asked a few questions to configure your project:
- Where should we create your new project? ./your-app-name
- How would you like to start your new project? Choose a template
- Do you plan to write TypeScript? Yes
- How strict should TypeScript be? Strict
- Install dependencies? Yes
- Initialize a new git repository? (optional) Yes/NoAdd React to your project
Install React using the Astro CLI:
Answer Yes to all the question prompted by the CLI when installing React.
Add Tailwind CSS to your project
Create a styles/globals.css file in the src folder.
@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;Import the globals.css file
Import the styles/globals.css file in the src/pages/index.astro file:
---
import '@/styles/globals.css'
---Update astro.config.mjs and set applyBaseStyles to false
To prevent serving the Tailwind base styles twice, we need to tell Astro not to apply the base styles, since we already include them in our own globals.css file. To do this, set the applyBaseStyles config option for the tailwind plugin in astro.config.mjs to false.
export default defineConfig({
integrations: [
tailwind({
applyBaseStyles: false,
}),
],
});Edit tsconfig.json file
Add the following code to the tsconfig.json file to resolve paths:
{
"compilerOptions": {
// ...
"baseUrl": ".",
"paths": {
"@/*": [
"./src/*"
]
}
// ...
}
}Run the CLI
Run the shadcn init command to setup your project:
That's it
You can now start adding components to your project.
The command above will add the Button component to your project. You can then import it like this:
---
import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button"
---
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Astro</title>
</head>
<body>
<Button>Hello World</Button>
</body>
</html>