Shadcn UI installation breaks Tailwind CSS

Question

Shadcn UI (https://ui.shadcn.com/) was working fine until I just for a couple weeks until yesterday, when I ran my NextJS app in my local host and none of the tailwind was working. To debug the issue, I created a blank NextJS 13 app in a completely new file location, and everything worked fine; tailwind was working on the default nextJS 13 page. I then ran

npx shadcn-ui init

without installing any of the components. Which did not spit out any errors, but then none of the tailwind styling worked anymore.

my tailwind.config.js after instillation:

/** @type {import('tailwindcss').Config} */
module.exports = {
  darkMode: ["class"],
  content: [
    './pages/**/*.{ts,tsx}',
    './components/**/*.{ts,tsx}',
    './app/**/*.{ts,tsx}',
    ],
  theme: {
    container: {
      center: true,
      padding: "2rem",
      screens: {
        "2xl": "1400px",
      },
    },
    extend: {
      colors: {
        border: "hsl(var(--border))",
        input: "hsl(var(--input))",
        ring: "hsl(var(--ring))",
        background: "hsl(var(--background))",
        foreground: "hsl(var(--foreground))",
        primary: {
          DEFAULT: "hsl(var(--primary))",
          foreground: "hsl(var(--primary-foreground))",
        },
        secondary: {
          DEFAULT: "hsl(var(--secondary))",
          foreground: "hsl(var(--secondary-foreground))",
        },
        destructive: {
          DEFAULT: "hsl(var(--destructive))",
          foreground: "hsl(var(--destructive-foreground))",
        },
        muted: {
          DEFAULT: "hsl(var(--muted))",
          foreground: "hsl(var(--muted-foreground))",
        },
        accent: {
          DEFAULT: "hsl(var(--accent))",
          foreground: "hsl(var(--accent-foreground))",
        },
        popover: {
          DEFAULT: "hsl(var(--popover))",
          foreground: "hsl(var(--popover-foreground))",
        },
        card: {
          DEFAULT: "hsl(var(--card))",
          foreground: "hsl(var(--card-foreground))",
        },
      },
      borderRadius: {
        lg: "var(--radius)",
        md: "calc(var(--radius) - 2px)",
        sm: "calc(var(--radius) - 4px)",
      },
      keyframes: {
        "accordion-down": {
          from: { height: 0 },
          to: { height: "var(--radix-accordion-content-height)" },
        },
        "accordion-up": {
          from: { height: "var(--radix-accordion-content-height)" },
          to: { height: 0 },
        },
      },
      animation: {
        "accordion-down": "accordion-down 0.2s ease-out",
        "accordion-up": "accordion-up 0.2s ease-out",
      },
    },
  },
  plugins: [require("tailwindcss-animate")],
}

my utils.ts after instillation

import { ClassValue, clsx } from "clsx"
import { twMerge } from "tailwind-merge"
 
export function cn(...inputs: ClassValue[]) {
  return twMerge(clsx(inputs))
}

the default page after instillation

EDIT: after some testing, the issue seems to be coming from the globals.css and tailwind.config.js, still not sure what about them though.

Answer 1

In my case the Shadcn components did not find the styles exported by tailwind. As answered by @moyindavid the problem is in tailwind.config.

Solution: Add the '@' folder to the exports of the tailwind attributes.

module.exports = {
   darkMode: ["class"],
   content: [
     './pages/**/*.{ts,tsx}',
     './components/**/*.{ts,tsx}',
     './app/**/*.{ts,tsx}',
     './@/**/*.{ts,tsx}', // <- HERE
     ],