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[ComiCSS] Benefits of Tailwind (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] yumyampie@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 15 hours ago

It is not intentional. The tooling needs to generate a short unique id to prevent css name clashing.

During development 2 developers can write the same css class name in two seperate places:

  • developer A: .container { padding: 8px } at dashboard
  • developer B: .container { padding: 32px } at sidebar

Without this tooling developer need to find ways to prevent name clashing:

  • .dashboard__container
  • .sidebar__container

and they need to do this for every class name.

with this tool, developer don't have to worry about this ever, continue using .container and it get generated into:

  • .aP2be7
  • .7aFrJp