Modern CSS with Tailwind: Chapter 1 (Installation)

Chapter 1 makes it hard even to begin if one doesn’t have front end tooling experience. I am a back end developer trying to understand little bit of front end which can make things simpler but found it hard to go beyond installation. In the beginning of the book there should be an effort on coming up with something running within 5-10 minutes of reading the first chapter for all categories of readers especially beginners. Seems like if I don’t know Rails, the book would be of limited help.

$ npm add tailwindcss postcss autoprefixer
npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/home/utils/tailwind/sample/package.json’
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/home/aejaz/utils/tailwind/sample/package.json’
npm WARN sample No description
npm WARN sample No repository field.
npm WARN sample No README data
npm WARN sample No license field.

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