Tailwind CSS v2.1

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3 pointsibraheemdev3 comments

I'm quite deep into react, angular, angularJS on the frontend spectrum. Still my first reaction was: "JIT? CSS? Wth?"

My reflecting alter ego of course tells me this is quite probably a great achievement. And I'll read into this matter professionally, probably use it where appropriate. Still I think a world where JIT is needed to process a non-turing complete layout language (which I know has turned into a horrible mess of sibling-eating lovecraftian, hieronymus-bosch-y amalgamation of CSS and javascript) is doomed to fail.

This felt good (note the past tense).

The JIT isn't for compiling CSS itself, but for scanning for classes tailwind supports. Essentially it scans your code (HTML/JSX) for those classes, and only generates an output CSS file with those classes.

This was released over a month ago.

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