"Unrecognized token in source text" error while installing TailwindCSS using npm command

Question

this is the error I am getting while installing. my node is 13.x.x and npm is 7.x.x

Can you just try running the command "npm i tailwindcss" once. — Shikhar, Mar 07 '21 at 15:50
PowerShell has _more_ [metacharacters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacharacter) (characters with special meaning) than other shells, notably including `@ { } , ;`. For them to be used _verbatim_, they must be individually `\``-escaped or enclosed in a quoted string. See [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/66302956/45375) for more information. — mklement0, Mar 07 '21 at 16:26

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 07 '21 at 16:20

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This is most likely related to PowerShell, as @ is a metacharacter there.

Try running the command with quotes around @tailwindcss/postcss7-compat.

npm install -D tailwindcss@npm:@tailwindcss/postcss7-compat "@tailwindcss/postcss7-compat" postcss@^7 autoprefixer@^9

edited Mar 07 '21 at 16:20

mklement0

answered Mar 07 '21 at 15:56

juliomalves

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