JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<script src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.7/jquery.validate.js"></script>
<script src="https://raw.github.com/jquery/jquery-metadata/master/jquery.metadata.js"></script>
<form id="myForm">
    <input name="foo" type="text" data-validate="{required:true,digits:true}" />
    <input type="submit">
</form>

JavaScript

$.metadata.setType("attr", "data-validate");
$('#myForm').validate();