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The OP was making a point that the build step should not be required to run/display a web app.

For example, tailwind without a build step is just the entire library. This means one can go a long way and even have a functioning web application without introducing a build step.

I would say stripping unused CSS is in the same context as optimizing images, fonts etc perhaps generally a "cleanup & prepare assets for production" step.

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MrJohz2y ago

Tailwind doesn't exist without a build step (at least since v2) — the whole point of Tailwind is that it is a build tool, an alternative syntax for writing CSS.

There's a kind of development version where that build step runs in the browser on page load, but it's still a build step in the sense of generating all that CSS dynamically, and it will produce a poor experience for a user if you try and use it in production.

tabacitu2y ago

I read it the same way, yes. Good point with the cleanup: - it’s one thing to need to run build for it to work; - it’s another thing to run build to make it smaller;

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