Use with TanStack Router - Flowbite React

This guide provides three ways to integrate Flowbite React with TanStack Router:

1. Quick Start: Create a new project with everything pre-configured
2. Add to Existing Project: Add Flowbite React to an existing TanStack Router project
3. Manual Setup: Set up everything from scratch manually

Quick Start#

The fastest way to get started is using our project creation CLI, which sets up a new TanStack Router project with Flowbite React, Tailwind CSS, and all necessary configurations:

npx create-flowbite-react@latest --template tanstack-router

This will:

• Create a new TanStack Router project
• Install and configure Tailwind CSS
• Set up Flowbite React with all required dependencies
• Configure example routes and components

Add to Existing Project#

If you already have a TanStack Router project and want to add Flowbite React, you can use our initialization CLI:

npx flowbite-react@latest init

This will automatically:

• Install Flowbite React and its dependencies
• Configure Tailwind CSS to include Flowbite React plugin
• Set up necessary configurations

Manual Setup#

If you prefer to set everything up manually or need more control over the configuration, follow these steps:

1. Create Project#

Create a new TanStack Router project:

npx @tanstack/create-router@latest

2. Configure Tailwind CSS#

1. Install Tailwind CSS and its Vite plugin:

npm install -D tailwindcss @tailwindcss/vite

2. Configure the Vite plugin in your vite.config.ts:

import tailwindcss from "@tailwindcss/vite";
import { TanStackRouterVite } from "@tanstack/router-plugin/vite";
import react from "@vitejs/plugin-react";
import { defineConfig } from "vite";

// https://vitejs.dev/config/
export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    TanStackRouterVite({
      target: "react",
      autoCodeSplitting: true,
    }),
    react(),
    tailwindcss(),
  ],
});

3. Create a new CSS file (src/index.css):

touch src/index.css

4. Add Tailwind CSS to your CSS file (src/index.css):

@import "tailwindcss";

5. Import the CSS file in your src/main.tsx file:

import "./index.css";

6. Remove Tailwind CSS browser script from the index.html file, since we are using the Vite plugin (recommended):

<script src="https://unpkg.com/@tailwindcss/browser@4"></script>
<style type="text/tailwindcss">
  html {
    color-scheme: light dark;
  }
  * {
    @apply border-gray-200 dark:border-gray-800;
  }
  body {
    @apply bg-gray-50 text-gray-950 dark:bg-gray-900 dark:text-gray-200;
  }
</style>

3. Install Flowbite React#

Install Flowbite React:

npx flowbite-react@latest init

This will:

• Install Flowbite React and its dependencies
• Configure Tailwind CSS to include Flowbite React plugin
• Configure Vite to include Flowbite React plugin

Try it out#

Now you can start using Flowbite React components in your routes:

// src/routes/index.tsx
import { createFileRoute } from "@tanstack/react-router";
import { Button } from "flowbite-react";

export const Route = createFileRoute("/")({
  component: HomeComponent,
});

function HomeComponent() {
  return (
    <div className="p-2">
      <Button>Click me</Button>
    </div>
  );
}

Templates#

• Github
• StackBlitz