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      How and why I started using PostCSS
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      <p>I assume that, like many other Developers, when I started learning front-end development, I wrote normal, plain CSS and later discovered and adopted pre-processors like Less and Sass that added features such as variables and nesting to my stylesheets.</p>

      <p>This was the case when I first saw what became Tailwind CSS, which were some stylesheets written in Less and ported manually between projects.</p>

      <p>I remember watching one of those streams, and a fellow viewer suggested PostCSS, which Tailwind CSS would later be written in.</p>

      <p>PostCSS, a CSS post-processor rather than a pre-processor, has become my preferred way of writing CSS because of Tailwind.</p>

      <p>When I started using Tailwind in my projects, I was layering it on top of another CSS framework or styles that were written using Less or Sass, so I needed to pre-process them into CSS first and then run PostCSS - essentially running two build steps and adding to the build time.</p>

      <p>I moved to use PostCSS by default - removing one of the build steps.</p>

      <p>What I liked about it, as well as the quicker build times, was that I could start with plain CSS and add the extra features I needed. I didn't use all of Sass and Less' features, and now, if I needed nesting or real-time imports, I could add it via a PostCSS plugin or write my own.</p>

      <p>It's also quick and easy to use, using the PostCSS CLI tool and without more complex tools like Webpack.</p>

      <p>If you haven't tried PostCSS, I recommend taking a look.</p>

              
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      <p>I assume that, like many other Developers, when I started learning front-end development, I wrote normal, plain CSS and later discovered and adopted pre-processors like Less and Sass that added features such as variables and nesting to my stylesheets.</p>

      <p>This was the case when I first saw what became Tailwind CSS, which were some stylesheets written in Less and ported manually between projects.</p>

      <p>I remember watching one of those streams, and a fellow viewer suggested PostCSS, which Tailwind CSS would later be written in.</p>

      <p>PostCSS, a CSS post-processor rather than a pre-processor, has become my preferred way of writing CSS because of Tailwind.</p>

      <p>When I started using Tailwind in my projects, I was layering it on top of another CSS framework or styles that were written using Less or Sass, so I needed to pre-process them into CSS first and then run PostCSS - essentially running two build steps and adding to the build time.</p>

      <p>I moved to use PostCSS by default - removing one of the build steps.</p>

      <p>What I liked about it, as well as the quicker build times, was that I could start with plain CSS and add the extra features I needed. I didn't use all of Sass and Less' features, and now, if I needed nesting or real-time imports, I could add it via a PostCSS plugin or write my own.</p>

      <p>It's also quick and easy to use, using the PostCSS CLI tool and without more complex tools like Webpack.</p>

      <p>If you haven't tried PostCSS, I recommend taking a look.</p>

              
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