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Oooorrrr some of us just don't care what you might think are good practices. I find tossing classes is more maintainable than trying to refactor down.

I'm a FE dev with 10 years experience.

I've only started using Tailwind specifically in the last year or so, but I've been using functional CSS for about 6 years.

I don't believe using @apply is a maintainable approach. A better approach is to use view templates. In fact Adam Wathan recommends this way too in this video https://youtu.be/J_7_mnFSLDg

I think you can blame compilation time for that. If you only use tailwind utility classes, there is no need for recompilation on every change but with @apply directive and external CSS file, the thing gets compiled every time you make a change.

I wonder if they can bypass compilation in development mode somehow.