prettier-plugin-tailwindcss VS swc

It's not as if the correct order for the rules is mysterious. It's implemented in the Tailwind compiler. Tools like prettier-plugin-tailwindcss, which automatically sorts the class names in your HTML code to match the order in which Tailwind generates them in your CSS output, use a public API in Tailwind to get this order.

Other than that, you can get Prettier sorting your classes with the Tailwind Prettier plugin. And one more quality-of-life extension that might help your eye sores from a long list of classes is Tailwind Fold.

I everyone. I am using Electron react boilerplate and I have successfully added tailwindcss to the project. However, I am struggling to get the Prettier plugin tailwindcss to work. I’ve tried following the instructions in the readme but no luck. I’ve tried moving my prettier.config.js to the .erc/config dir with no luck either.

Others have already replied, but if you need to structure your TailwindCSS classes, I recommend their official Prettier plugin which integrates well into an ESLint setup.

> Except that I read that it's great for writing, but a nightmare for reading.

This is true at first. I can see it being pretty daunting to come into an existing project and trying to understand the styling of components. Starting from scratch and easing it into an existing project is much easier imo. That's what I did for a personal website. Now that I understand it and have converted the entire website to Tailwind, I don't want to switch to anything else going forward.

Here's a Prettier plugin that sort the classes to keep everything consistent across components: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/prettier-plugin-tailwindcss

Tailwind combined with classnames (https://github.com/JedWatson/classnames) makes it really easy to have conditional styling based on component state.

Despite the existence of Prettier, arguments about code style such as how to sort ES module imports still exist. Manually sorting ES modules wastes time, and usually leads to losing context when you are writing code and then have to navigate to the top of a file to modify your import statements. I love using the @trivago/prettier-plugin-sort-imports plugin which automatically sorts new imports, and works perfectly together with TypeScript's auto-import feature. Similarly, prettier-plugin-tailwindcss automatically sorts Tailwind classes in your code.

Added the tailwind-prettier-plugin as not everyone uses headwind

I used to use Headwind (mentioned in another comment) but the Tailwind CSS team now maintains an official Prettier plugin which I'd recommend using on every project. It sorts the classes the same way they appear in Tailwind's compiled CSS so precedence is easy to see straight from your HTML. I've also found it's much faster than Headwind. They talk about it more in this blog post.

First, we switched the default compiler for new projects from Babel to SWC (Speedy Web Compiler). SWC is dramatically faster than Babel and requires zero configuration. We’ll continue to support Babel in any project currently using it.

SWC

As the reference explains “**SWC** (Speedy Web Compiler) is an extensible Rust-based platform that can be used for both compilation and bundling. Using SWC with Nest CLI is a great and simple way to significantly speed up your development process.”

This is specifically about breaking the myth that performing expensive self-contained operations (e.g, parsing GraphQL) in a native extension (C, Rust, etc.) is always faster than the interpreted language.

The JS ecosystem has the same problem, people think rewriting everything in Rust will be a magic fix. In practice, there's always the problem highlighted in the post (transitioning is expensive, causes optimization bailouts), as well as the cost of actually getting the results back into Node-land. This is why SWC abandoned the JS API for writing plugins - constantly bouncing back and forth while traversing AST nodes was even slower than Babel (e.g https://github.com/swc-project/swc/issues/1392#issuecomment-...)

Why Speedy Web Compiler ?

FTA is a TypeScript static analysis tool built on the speedy foundations of swc. FTA is fast; capable of analyzing more than 150 files per second on typical hardware, it offers a powerful addition to your code quality toolkit.

Very cool! I'm curious, is this intended for dev tooling?

For example, I could see this (or something similar) being useful as the engine for a typescript language server that would be faster than the standard one

But if it's not aimed at 1:1 with tsc, would it be intended more for something like swc[1]?

Or what would you expect people to use this for, besides just being a cool project to learn from?

[1] https://github.com/swc-project/swc

This is... good news, but I still cannot fathom using the default Typescript compiler for regular development. Seriously, leave the type-checking to your IDE and CICD chain, and switch to using tsx (https://www.npmjs.com/package/tsx) or swc (https://swc.rs/) and you will _immediately_ notice the difference in speed and productivity.