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Giorgos Kontopoulos 👀 • Edited

Shawn
Yes those are some nice TIPS from Adam in the video you linked to, and yes he does mention not overusing @apply (which I was not aware about) but that is a general statement and a recommendation but I still think it is actually to performance's benefit to use it as much as possible.

I don't like the idea of a component that is full of tailwind classes cluttering HTML and making it heavy in size. I would create custom app classes (using @apply) and add those classes as class values inside my component instead in order to create lighter HTML files.

Imagine a component that gets created 100 times in a loop with tailwind classes taking most of the HTML space. I would naturally want to use @apply to reduce html size and css size would not increase proportionately I believe (might be wrong).

I might be going against the flow or some might say misusing tailwind here but I think we ought to ourselves and the community at large to make our systems as performant as possible when we can.