🌬️ TailYew

The Tailwind + Yew component system — built entirely in Rust.

TailYew is an open-source component system for Yew apps, built using idiomatic Rust and styled with Tailwind CSS. This repo includes the component crate, full demo/docs site, and the scaffolding CLI.

🎯 This README is for contributors. If you want to use TailYew in your project, check the crate README or the create-tailyew-app CLI to get started.

This repo is a monorepo with:

• crates/tailyew/ – the component crate (tailyew)
• frontend/ – the live demo and docs site (Yew + WASM)
• crates/create-tailyew-app/ – CLI for scaffolding new TailYew projects

You’ll need:

• Rust + WASM toolchain (rustup, wasm32-unknown-unknown, etc.)
• Node.js (for Tailwind CSS + dev server)
• make (used for all common workflows)

Clone the repo and enter it:

git clone https://github.com/apjames93/tailyew.git
cd tailyew

Then:

# Install all Rust deps
cargo check

# Install required Node packages for the frontend
cd frontend
npm install
cd ..

# Run the full docs site with hot reload (frontend + component crate)
make run-frontend

You can now open http://localhost:8080 and see the live docs site running.

make run-frontend     # Run frontend + crate (hot reload)
make pretty           # Format + lint everything
make watch-docs       # Watch + build Rust docs (crates/tailyew/docs.rs)

Need to run something just in the frontend?

make fe-build
make fe-run

Or just in the crate?

make tailyew-doc
make tailyew-test

.
├── crates/
│   ├── tailyew/               # Main component system crate
│   └── create-tailyew-app/   # CLI to scaffold new apps
├── frontend/                  # Demo/docs site (Yew + Tailwind)
├── docs/                      # GitHub Pages markdown (optional)
├── Makefile                   # Root orchestrator (delegates to subdirs)

Before submitting a PR:

• ✅ Run make pretty (formats + lints)
• ✅ Run make release-check
• ✅ Test both light mode and dark mode
• ✅ Update related demo pages in frontend/src/pages/
• ✅ Include before/after screenshots for visual changes

• 📥 Open a Pull Request
• 🐛 Report a Bug
• 💡 Propose a Feature

Whether you're submitting a PR, filing an issue, or just exploring the project — thank you for helping us grow the Rust UI ecosystem.

• 🦀 Yew Framework
• 🎨 Tailwind CSS