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0 pointsnailer5y ago0 comments

> If you have thousands you probably should start looking into extracting some components.

This is confusing component reuse with design system reuse.

Two components may have completely different purposes, but they both have a certain rounding, palette, and other styles.

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@apply is your friend here.

nailerOP5y ago

100% agreed that sharing styles with @apply is exactly how to solve this.

However Tailwind tells users they shouldn't be doing this, encouraging them to paste the same mixins on every element they want them.

They specifically recommended using it in the documentation to solve exactly the problem you describe.

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@apply is your friend here.

nailerOP5y ago

100% agreed that sharing styles with @apply is exactly how to solve this.

However Tailwind tells users they shouldn't be doing this, encouraging them to paste the same mixins on every element they want them.

They specifically recommended using it in the documentation to solve exactly the problem you describe.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse