Might be interesting to use this project here which provides tailwind from a binary without dependency on npm: https://github.com/timonweb/pytailwindcss

Thanks for the tip, @cargocultprogramming. I just released v0.3.0 of the Tailwind CSS plugin for Pelican to fix an issue with NPM, which certainly generated motivation to remove the need for Node.js/NPM. 😊

If someone would like to help out by adding a configuration setting along the lines of "install_method": "standalone" (which should be the new default setting) that adds support for https://github.com/timonweb/pytailwindcss, pull requests to that effect would be most welcome 😁

So, v0.3.0 of this plugin was supposed to fix a problem in v0.2.0 but seems to have created another, different problem, and thus I got entirely fed up with Node.js/NPM and removed it as a requirement via #10. See the description there for more details as well as some caveats.