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Appreciate the info! I'll have to figure out how the hell this works though lol, i watched the video and am still a bit perplexed, since i'm not using JavaScrip

• hbn 5y ago
  As far as I understand, the build system just scans for whatever Tailwind class names you use, and then generates them into CSS. Which is why you can't dynamically compose Tailwind class names and insert them into your markup, cause it wouldn't be picked up. Whether or not you're using Javascript doesn't matter (I guess unless you use the new CDN script which I haven't tried), but it does need to be run in a build system.
  • lijogdfljk 5y ago
    If it just uses regex over source material i guess it would be fine, though seems like it might hit a fair number of false positives if it's too loose. Too rigid and it might not work if you don't write your css vars in something that looks html-like. Will be interesting!
    • hbn 5y ago
      I've never looked into how accurate it is, but even if you get a few false positives, I'm not too concerned about a few extra characters being transferred in the grand scheme of things. The creator of Tailwind posted a comment in this thread that the Tailwind website itself, which uses way more Tailwind classes than a normal size would use (for demoing everything), only spits out 36.9kB of CSS. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29503769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29503769