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Discussion on: Tailwind CSS v4 — What Actually Changed (And What It Means for Your Next.js Project)

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Alexander

Shifting the configuration entirely into CSS solves a massive headache for design system pipelines. Compiling design tokens into a JavaScript object always felt like fighting against the cascade. Hooking up a tool like Style Dictionary to output raw CSS variables directly into the @theme block is incredibly smooth now. Having those tokens explicitly available at runtime changes the game for browser debugging.