We noticed that in the current alpha 34 release, the `package.json` file
of the `@tailwindcss/node` package only defines `tailwindcss` as a dev
dependency. This makes it very easy for version mismatches to happen
when a v3 version (or an earlier v4 alpha for that matter) was installed
in the same project:
```json
{
"name": "@tailwindcss/node",
"version": "4.0.0-alpha.34",
"description": "A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces.",
"license": "MIT",
"repository": {
"type": "git",
"url": "https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.git",
"directory": "packages/@tailwindcss-node"
},
"bugs": "https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/issues",
"homepage": "https://tailwindcss.com",
"files": [
"dist/"
],
"publishConfig": {
"provenance": true,
"access": "public"
},
"exports": {
".": {
"types": "./dist/index.d.ts",
"import": "./dist/index.mjs",
"require": "./dist/index.js"
},
"./require-cache": {
"types": "./dist/require-cache.d.ts",
"default": "./dist/require-cache.js"
},
"./esm-cache-loader": {
"types": "./dist/esm-cache.loader.d.mts",
"default": "./dist/esm-cache.loader.mjs"
}
},
"devDependencies": {
"tailwindcss": "4.0.0-alpha.34"
},
"dependencies": {
"enhanced-resolve": "^5.17.1",
"jiti": "^2.0.0-beta.3"
},
"scripts": {
"build": "tsup-node",
"dev": "pnpm run build -- --watch"
}
}
```
Furthermore, we were trying to fix issues where our integration test
setup could not install `tailwindcss@3` because of how we did pnpm
overrides.
This PR fixes this by:
- Ensuring every client that calls into `tailwindcss` core marks it as a
version-pinned dependency. You are still required to install
`tailwindcss` in your project along side a client (e.g.
`@tailwindcss/vite`) but we now only use your installed version for
importing the respective `.css` files. For the core logic, we are now
requiring each package to use `tailwindcss` at the same version. This
should help resolve issues like
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/14652
- We tried to eliminate the dependency on `tailwindcss` from the
`@tailwindcss/upgrade` package. Unfortunately this is not possible to do
right now because we need to load the CSS files from v4 to create the
right environment. In a future version we could bundle the required CSS
files with `@tailwidncss/upgrade` but it doesn't seem necessary for now.
- We then changed our integration test overrides to only override the
`tailwindcss` package that are dependencies of the known list of
packages that we have `tailwindcss` dependencies on: `@tailwindcss/node`
and `@tailwindcss/upgrade`. This ensures that we can install v3 of
`tailwindcss` in the integration tests and it will work. Something we
want to do for some upgrade tests.
# Test plan
Integration work again. Furthermore we added a quick setup with the CLI
using the local tarballs and ensured it works:
```bash
pnpm init
pnpm install ../../tailwindcss/dist/tailwindcss-cli.tgz
pnpm install ../../tailwindcss/dist/tailwindcss.tgz
echo '@import "tailwindcss";' > index.css
echo '<div class="underline"></div>' > index.html
pnpm tailwindcss -i index.css -o out.css
cat out.css
```
This PR improves the generated CSS by running it through Lightning CSS
twice.Right now Lightning CSS merges adjacent at-rules and at the end
flattens the nesting. This means that after the nesting is flattened,
the at-rules that are adjacent and could be merged together will not be
merged.
This PR improves our output by running Lightning CSS twice on the
generated CSS which will make sure to merge adjacent at-rules after the
nesting is flattened.
Note: in the diff output you'll notice that some properties are
duplicated. These need some fixes in Lightning CSS itself but they don't
break anything for us right now.
Related PR in Lightning CSS for the double `-webkit-backdrop-filter` can
be found here: https://github.com/parcel-bundler/lightningcss/pull/850
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When migrating a project from Tailwind CSS v3 to Tailwind CSS v4, then
we started the migration process in the following order:
1. Migrate the JS/TS config file
2. Migrate the source files (found via the `content` option)
3. Migrate the CSS files
However, if you have a setup where you have multiple CSS root files
(e.g.: `frontend` and `admin` are separated), then that typically means
that you have an `@config` directive in your CSS files. These point to
the Tailwind CSS config file.
This PR changes the migration order to do the following:
1. Build a tree of all the CSS files
2. For each `@config` directive, migrate the JS/TS config file
3. For each JS/TS config file, migrate the source files
If a CSS file does not contain any `@config` directives, then we start
by filling in the `@config` directive with the default Tailwind CSS
config file (if found, or the one passed in). If no default config file
or passed in config file can be found, then we will error out (just like
we do now)
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This PR introduces a new `source(…)` argument and improves on the
existing `@source`. The goal of this PR is to make the automatic source
detection configurable, let's dig in.
By default, we will perform automatic source detection starting at the
current working directory. Auto source detection will find plain text
files (no binaries, images, ...) and will ignore git-ignored files.
If you want to start from a different directory, you can use the new
`source(…)` next to the `@import "tailwindcss/utilities"
layer(utilities) source(…)`.
E.g.:
```css
/* ./src/styles/index.css */
@import 'tailwindcss/utilities' layer(utilities) source('../../');
```
Most people won't split their source files, and will just use the simple
`@import "tailwindcss";`, because of this reason, you can use
`source(…)` on the import as well:
E.g.:
```css
/* ./src/styles/index.css */
@import 'tailwindcss' source('../../');
```
Sometimes, you want to rely on auto source detection, but also want to
look in another directory for source files. In this case, yuo can use
the `@source` directive:
```css
/* ./src/index.css */
@import 'tailwindcss';
/* Look for `blade.php` files in `../resources/views` */
@source '../resources/views/**/*.blade.php';
```
However, you don't need to specify the extension, instead you can just
point the directory and all the same automatic source detection rules
will apply.
```css
/* ./src/index.css */
@import 'tailwindcss';
@source '../resources/views';
```
If, for whatever reason, you want to disable the default source
detection feature entirely, and only want to rely on very specific glob
patterns you define, then you can disable it via `source(none)`.
```css
/* Completely disable the default auto source detection */
@import 'tailwindcss' source(none);
/* Only look at .blade.php files, nothing else */
@source "../resources/views/**/*.blade.php";
```
Note: even with `source(none)`, if your `@source` points to a directory,
then auto source detection will still be performed in that directory. If
you don't want that, then you can simply add explicit files in the globs
as seen in the previous example.
```css
/* Completely disable the default auto source detection */
@import 'tailwindcss' source(none);
/* Run auto source detection in `../resources/views` */
@source "../resources/views";
```
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Fixes#14613
Don't crash when trying to read the modification time of a file that
might already be deleted.
Note: This fix is purely theoretical right now as I wasn't able to
reproduce the issue yet.
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This PR improves the performance of the `@tailwindcss/postcss` plugin.
Before this change we created 2 compiler instances instead of a single
one. On a project where a `tailwindcss.config.ts` file is used, this
means that the timings look like this:
```
[@tailwindcss/postcss] Setup compiler: 137.525ms
⋮
[@tailwindcss/postcss] Setup compiler: 43.95ms
```
This means that with this small change, we can easily shave of ~50ms for
initial PostCSS builds.
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This PR exposes when using the the `DEBUG` environment variable. This
follows the `DEBUG` conventions where:
- `DEBUG=1`
- `DEBUG=true`
- `DEBUG=*`
- `DEBUG=tailwindcss`
Will enable the debug information, but when using:
- `DEBUG=0`
- `DEBUG=false`
- `DEBUG=-tailwindcss`
It will not.
This currently only exposes some timings related to:
1. Scanning for candidates
2. Building the CSS
3. Optimizing the CSS
We can implement a more advanced version of this where we also expose
more fine grained information such as the files we scanned, the amount
of candidates we found and so on. But I believe that this will be enough
to start triaging performance related issues.
Fixes#14521
When using the CLI to read files from `stdin` like this:
```bash
npx tailwindcss --input=- -o bar.css < foo.css
```
We need to set the `base` path to be the current working directory
(`process.cwd()`). However, `cwd()` already _is_ a directory and calling
`dirname()` on it did go to the parent directory _which might not have
the `tailwindcss` dependency installed.
This PR brings `@import` resolution into Tailwind CSS core. This means
that our clients (PostCSS, Vite, and CLI) no longer need to depend on
`postcss` and `postcss-import` to resolve `@import`. Furthermore this
simplifies the handling of relative paths for `@source`, `@plugin`, or
`@config` in transitive CSS files (where the relative root should always
be relative to the CSS file that contains the directive). This PR also
fixes a plugin resolution bug where non-relative imports (e.g. directly
importing node modules like `@plugin '@tailwindcss/typography';`) would
not work in CSS files that are based in a different npm package.
### Resolving `@import`
The core of the `@import` resolution is inside
`packages/tailwindcss/src/at-import.ts`. There, to keep things
performant, we do a two-step process to resolve imports. Imagine the
following input CSS file:
```css
@import "tailwindcss/theme.css";
@import "tailwindcss/utilities.css";
```
Since our AST walks are synchronous, we will do a first traversal where
we start a loading request for each `@import` directive. Once all loads
are started, we will await the promise and do a second walk where we
actually replace the AST nodes with their resolved stylesheets. All of
this is recursive, so that `@import`-ed files can again `@import` other
files.
The core `@import` resolver also includes extensive test cases for
[various combinations of media query and supports conditionals as well
als layered
imports](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@import).
When the same file is imported multiple times, the AST nodes are
duplicated but duplicate I/O is avoided on a per-file basis, so this
will only load one file, but include the `@theme` rules twice:
```css
@import "tailwindcss/theme.css";
@import "tailwindcss/theme.css";
```
### Adding a new `context` node to the AST
One limitation we had when working with the `postcss-import` plugin was
the need to do an additional traversal to rewrite relative `@source`,
`@plugin`, and `@config` directives. This was needed because we want
these paths to be relative to the CSS file that defines the directive
but when flattening a CSS file, this information is no longer part of
the stringifed CSS representation. We worked around this by rewriting
the content of these directives to be relative to the input CSS file,
which resulted in added complexity and caused a lot of issues with
Windows paths in the beginning.
Now that we are doing the `@import` resolution in core, we can use a
different data structure to persist this information. This PR adds a new
`context` node so that we can store arbitrary context like this inside
the Ast directly. This allows us to share information with the sub tree
_while doing the Ast walk_.
Here's an example of how the new `context` node can be used to share
information with subtrees:
```ts
const ast = [
rule('.foo', [decl('color', 'red')]),
context({ value: 'a' }, [
rule('.bar', [
decl('color', 'blue'),
context({ value: 'b' }, [
rule('.baz', [decl('color', 'green')]),
]),
]),
]),
]
walk(ast, (node, { context }) => {
if (node.kind !== 'declaration') return
switch (node.value) {
case 'red': assert(context.value === undefined)
case 'blue': assert(context.value === 'a')
case 'green': assert(context.value === 'b')
}
})
```
In core, we use this new Ast node specifically to persist the `base`
path of the current CSS file. We put the input CSS file `base` at the
root of the Ast and then overwrite the `base` on every `@import`
substitution.
### Removing the dependency on `postcss-import`
Now that we support `@import` resolution in core, our clients no longer
need a dependency on `postcss-import`. Furthermore, most dependencies
also don't need to know about `postcss` at all anymore (except the
PostCSS client, of course!).
This also means that our workaround for rewriting `@source`, the
`postcss-fix-relative-paths` plugin, can now go away as a shared
dependency between all of our clients. Note that we still have it for
the PostCSS plugin only, where it's possible that users already have
`postcss-import` running _before_ the `@tailwindcss/postcss` plugin.
Here's an example of the changes to the dependencies for our Vite client
✨ :
<img width="854" alt="Screenshot 2024-09-19 at 16 59 45"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ae1f9d5f-d93a-4de9-9244-61af3aff1237">
### Performance
Since our Vite and CLI clients now no longer need to use `postcss` at
all, we have also measured a significant improvement to the initial
build times. For a small test setup that contains only a hand full of
files (nothing super-complex), we measured an improvement in the
**3.5x** range:
<img width="1334" alt="Screenshot 2024-09-19 at 14 52 49"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/06071fb0-7f2a-4de6-8ec8-f202d2cc78e5">
The code for this is in the commit history if you want to reproduce the
results. The test was based on the Vite client.
### Caveats
One thing to note is that we previously relied on finding specific
symbols in the input CSS to _bail out of Tailwind processing
completely_. E.g. if a file does not contain a `@tailwind` or `@apply`
directive, it can never be a Tailwind file.
Since we no longer have a string representation of the flattened CSS
file, we can no longer do this check. However, the current
implementation was already inconsistent with differences on the allowed
symbol list between our clients. Ideally, Tailwind CSS should figure out
wether a CSS file is a Tailwind CSS file. This, however, is left as an
improvement for a future API since it goes hand-in-hand with our planned
API changes for the core `tailwindcss` package.
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When we observe that no new candidates were found, then we can return
early because nothing really changed. There is also no need to
re-optimize (use Lightning CSS) in this case.
But this had a side effect that when no new candidates were detected,
that you didn't see any output either. This feels like nothing is
working from a DX perspective.
Typically you are changing things, so it's not really a problem. But the
moment you use a class that already existed (e.g.: in another file) you
also don't get any output because we have a shared cache.
This PR solves that by always showing the output. But it still doesn't
write to disk if nothing changed.
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When you configure custom content globs inside an `@config` file, we
want to tread these globs as being relative to that config file and not
the CSS file that requires the content file. A config can be used by
multiple CSS configs.
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In Tailwind v4 the CSS file is the main entry point to your project and
is generally configured via `@theme`. However, given that all v3
projects were configured via a `tailwind.config.js` file we definitely
need to support those. This PR adds support for loading existing
Tailwind config files by adding an `@config` directive to the CSS —
similar to how v3 supported multiple config files except that this is
now _required_ to use a config file.
You can load a config file like so:
```
@import "tailwindcss";
@config "./path/to/tailwind.config.js";
```
A few notes:
- Both CommonJS and ESM config files are supported (loaded directly via
`import()` in Node)
- This is not yet supported in Intellisense or Prettier — should
hopefully land next week
- TypeScript is **not yet** supported in the config file — this will be
handled in a future PR.
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Co-authored-by: Robin Malfait <malfait.robin@gmail.com>
This PR adds a new standalone client: A single-binary file that you can
use to run Tailwind v4 without having a node setup. To make this work we
use Bun's single-binary build which can properly package up native
modules and the bun runtime for us so we do not have to rely on any
expand-into-tmp-folder-at-runtime workarounds.
When running locally, `pnpm build` will now standalone artifacts inside
`packages/@tailwindcss-standalone/dist`. Note that since we do not build
Oxide for other environments in the local setup, you won't be able to
use the standalone artifacts for other platforms in local dev mode.
Unfortunately Bun does not have support for Windows ARM builds yet but
we found that using the `bun-baseline` runtime for Windows x64 would
make the builds work fine in ARM emulation mode:
Some Bun related issues we faced and worked around:
- We found that the regular Windows x64 build of `bun` does not run on
Windows ARM via emulation. Instead, we have to use the `bun-baseline`
builds which emulate correctly.
- When we tried to bundle artifacts with [embed
directories](https://bun.sh/docs/bundler/executables#embed-directories),
node binary dependencies were no longer resolved correctly even though
they would still be bundled and accessible within the [`embeddedFiles`
list](https://bun.sh/docs/bundler/executables#listing-embedded-files).
We worked around this by using the `import * as from ... with { type:
"file" };` and patching the resolver we use in our CLI.
- If you have an import to a module that is used as a regular import
_and_ a `with { type: "file" }`, it will either return the module in
both cases _or_ the file path when we would expect only the `with {
type: "file" }` import to return the path. We do read the Tailwind CSS
version via the file system and `require.resolve()` in the CLI and via
`import * from './package.json'` in core and had to work around this by
patching the version resolution in our CLI.
```ts
import packageJson from "./package.json"
import packageJsonPath from "./package.json" with {type: "file"}
// We do not expect these to be equal
packageJson === packageJsonPath
```
- We can not customize the app icon used for Windows `.exe` builds
without decompiling the binary. For now we will leave the default but
one workaround is to [use tools like
ResourceHacker](698d9c4bd1)
to decompile the binary first.
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Co-authored-by: Robin Malfait <malfait.robin@gmail.com>
This PR updates the API for interacting with the Oxide API. Until now,
we used the name `scanDir(…)` which is fine, but we do way more work
right now.
We now have features such as:
1. Auto source detection (can be turned off, e.g.: `@tailwindcss/vite`
doesn't need it)
2. Scan based on `@source`s found in CSS files
3. Do "incremental" rebuilds (which means that the `scanDir(…)` result
was stateful).
To solve these issues, this PR introduces a new `Scanner` class where
you can pass in the `detectSources` and `sources` options. E.g.:
```ts
let scanner = new Scanner({
// Optional, omitting `detectSources` field disables automatic source detection
detectSources: { base: __dirname },
// List of glob entries to scan. These come from `@source` directives in CSS.
sources: [
{ base: __dirname, pattern: "src/**/*.css" },
// …
],
});
```
The scanner object has the following API:
```ts
export interface ChangedContent {
/** File path to the changed file */
file?: string
/** Contents of the changed file */
content?: string
/** File extension */
extension: string
}
export interface DetectSources {
/** Base path to start scanning from */
base: string
}
export interface GlobEntry {
/** Base path of the glob */
base: string
/** Glob pattern */
pattern: string
}
export interface ScannerOptions {
/** Automatically detect sources in the base path */
detectSources?: DetectSources
/** Glob sources */
sources?: Array<GlobEntry>
}
export declare class Scanner {
constructor(opts: ScannerOptions)
scan(): Array<string>
scanFiles(input: Array<ChangedContent>): Array<string>
get files(): Array<string>
get globs(): Array<GlobEntry>
}
```
The `scanFiles(…)` method is used for incremental rebuilds. It takes the
`ChangedContent` array for all the new/changes files. It returns whether
we scanned any new candidates or not.
Note that the `scanner` object is stateful, this means that we don't
have to track candidates in a `Set` anymore. We can just call
`getCandidates()` when we need it.
This PR also removed some unused code that we had in the `scanDir(…)`
function to allow for sequential or parallel `IO`, and sequential or
parallel `Parsing`. We only used the same `IO` and `Parsing` strategies
for all files, so I just got rid of it.
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This PR bumps dependencies
We also make some dependencies `catalog:` dependencies, which allows us
to keep
the version in sync. E.g.: `lightningcss` and `@types/node`.
Bumped `turbo` to the latest version + enabled the new UI
Fixed a bug in the tests now that `lightningcss` outputs the correct
value.
Alternative to #14110
This PR changes the way how we load plugins to be compatible with ES6
async `import`s. This allows us to load plugins even inside the browser
but it comes at a downside: We now have to change the `compile` API to
return a `Promise`...
So most of this PR is rewriting all of the call sites of `compile` to
expect a promise instead of the object.
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This PR is an umbrella PR where we will add support for the new
`@source` directive. This will allow you to add explicit content glob
patterns if you want to look for Tailwind classes in other files that
are not automatically detected yet.
Right now this is an addition to the existing auto content detection
that is automatically enabled in the `@tailwindcss/postcss` and
`@tailwindcss/cli` packages. The `@tailwindcss/vite` package doesn't use
the auto content detection, but uses the module graph instead.
From an API perspective there is not a lot going on. There are only a
few things that you have to know when using the `@source` directive, and
you probably already know the rules:
1. You can use multiple `@source` directives if you want.
2. The `@source` accepts a glob pattern so that you can match multiple
files at once
3. The pattern is relative to the current file you are in
4. The pattern includes all files it is matching, even git ignored files
1. The motivation for this is so that you can explicitly point to a
`node_modules` folder if you want to look at `node_modules` for whatever
reason.
6. Right now we don't support negative globs (starting with a `!`) yet,
that will be available in the near future.
Usage example:
```css
/* ./src/input.css */
@import "tailwindcss";
@source "../laravel/resources/views/**/*.blade.php";
@source "../../packages/monorepo-package/**/*.js";
```
It looks like the PR introduced a lot of changes, but this is a side
effect of all the other plumbing work we had to do to make this work.
For example:
1. We added dedicated integration tests that run on Linux and Windows in
CI (just to make sure that all the `path` logic is correct)
2. We Have to make sure that the glob patterns are always correct even
if you are using `@import` in your CSS and use `@source` in an imported
file. This is because we receive the flattened CSS contents where all
`@import`s are inlined.
3. We have to make sure that we also listen for changes in the files
that match any of these patterns and trigger a rebuild.
PRs:
- [x] https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/14063
- [x] https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/14085
- [x] https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/14079
- [x] https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/14067
- [x] https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/14076
- [x] https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/14080
- [x] https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/14127
- [x] https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/14135
Once all the PRs are merged, then this umbrella PR can be merged.
> [!IMPORTANT]
> Make sure to merge this without rebasing such that each individual PR
ends up on the main branch.
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Co-authored-by: Jordan Pittman <jordan@cryptica.me>
Co-authored-by: Adam Wathan <adam.wathan@gmail.com>
This PR changes the GitHub action workflow for V4 to start running all
unit tests and build on both Ubuntu (our current default) _and_ Windows.
This is to ensure we catch issues with paths and other Windows-specific
things sooner. It does, however, not replace testing on Windows.
* Add basic `addVariant` plugin support
* Return early
* Load plugins right away instead later
* Use correct type for variant name
* Preliminary support for addVariant plugins in PostCSS plugin
* Add test for compounding plugin variants
* Add basic `loadPlugin` support to Vite plugin
* Add basic `loadPlugin` support to CLI
* add `io.ts` for integrations
* use shared `loadPlugin` from `tailwindcss/io`
* add `tailwindcss-test-utils` to `@tailwindcss/cli` and `@tailwindcss/vite`
* only add `tailwindcss-test-utils` to `tailwindcss` as a dev dependency
Because `src/io.ts` is requiring the plugin.
* move `tailwindcss-test-utils` to `@tailwindcss/postcss `
This is the spot where we actually need it.
* use newer pnpm version
* Duplicate loadPlugin implementation instead of exporting io file
* Remove another io reference
* update changelog
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Co-authored-by: Adam Wathan <4323180+adamwathan@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Robin Malfait <malfait.robin@gmail.com>
* run `pnpm update --recursive`
* update tests to reflect lightningcss bump
It looks like it's mainly (re-)ordering properties. Not 100% sure why
though.
