bug: build error: TypeError: k is not a function

[bfallik-invaluable]

Reproduction URL (Required)

https//invalid.link/this-is-a-build-failure

What version of daisyUI are you using?

v5.0.43

Which browsers are you seeing the problem on?

No response

Describe your issue

Thanks for all your hard work on DaisyUI!

I'm trying to follow the instructions for Using daisyUI with Tailwind CSS Standalone CLI but the build stage fails with a strange error:

/opt/homebrew/bin/tailwindcss -i ui/css/input.css -o ui/static/css/output.css
≈ tailwindcss v4.1.8

TypeError: k is not a function

I've installed tailwindcss via brew:

❯ tailwindcss --version | head -n 1
≈ tailwindcss v4.1.8

/*! tailwindcss v4.1.8 | MIT License | https://tailwindcss.com */

input.css is minimal:

❯ cat ui/css/input.css
@import "tailwindcss";
@plugin "../js/daisyui.js";

I don't know enough about Javascript to debug this further. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[github-actions]

Thank you @bfallik-invaluable for reporting issues. It helps daisyUI a lot 💚
I'll be working on issues one by one. I will help with this one as soon as a I find a solution.
In the meantime providing more details and reproduction links would be helpful.

[sulimanbenhalim]

TL;DR: You're using the Homebrew Node.js wrapper instead of the native binary

Homebrew's tailwindcss is a shell script that wraps Node.js, but daisyUI standalone needs the actual binary from GitHub releases

Quick fix:

curl -sLo tailwindcss https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/releases/latest/download/tailwindcss-macos-arm64
chmod +x tailwindcss
./tailwindcss -i input.css -o output.css

[bfallik-invaluable]

Thanks @sulimanbenhalim