Material Tailwind with Phoenix

Learn how to setup and install @material-tailwind/html with Phoenix.

First you need to create a new project using Phoenix, for more details check the Phoenix Official Documentation

mix phx.new my_app

Then you need to install Tailwind CSS since @material-tailwind/html is working with Tailwind CSS classes and you need to have Tailwind CSS installed on your project. Check Tailwind CSS Installation for Phoenix on Tailwind CSS Documentation.

Install @material-tailwind/html as a dependency using NPM by running the following command:

npm i @material-tailwind/html

Install @material-tailwind/html as a dependency using Yarn by running the following command:

yarn add @material-tailwind/html

Using PNPM

Install @material-tailwind/html as a dependency using PNPM by running the following command:

pnpm i @material-tailwind/html

Once you install @material-tailwind/html you need to wrap your tailwind css configurations with the withMT() function coming from @material-tailwind/html/utils.

const plugin = require("tailwindcss/plugin")
const fs = require("fs")
const path = require("path")
 
const withMT = require("@material-tailwind/html/utils/withMT")
 
module.exports = withMT({
  content: [
    './js/**/*.js',
    '../lib/*_web.ex',
    '../lib/*_web/**/*.*ex',
  ],
  theme: {},
  plugins: []
});

Ripple Effect

@material-tailwind/html comes with a ripple effect script file same as Material Design ripple effect and you can simply use it by adding it's CDN link to you project and add the data-ripple-light="true" for light ripple effect and data-ripple-dark="true" for dark ripple effect as an attribute for components

The ripple effect used in @material-tailwind/html is a separate package called material-ripple-effect

<!-- from cdn -->
<script async defer src="https://unpkg.com/@material-tailwind/html@latest/scripts/ripple.js"></script>

Now you're good to go and use @material-tailwind/html in your project.

<button
  type="button"
  data-ripple-light="true"
  class="align-middle select-none font-sans font-bold text-center uppercase transition-all disabled:opacity-50 disabled:shadow-none disabled:pointer-events-none text-xs py-3 px-6 rounded-lg bg-gray-900 text-white shadow-md shadow-gray-900/10 hover:shadow-lg hover:shadow-gray-900/20 focus:opacity-[0.85] focus:shadow-none active:opacity-[0.85] active:shadow-none"
>
  Button
</button>