@apply standalone

[rightaway]

I'd like to start using utility first css in our applications incrementally before switching over fully to tailwind. I've found that in order to go utility first having @apply is very useful. Could it be separated into its own postcss plugin so it can be used on its own? Having the ability to include classes within other classes would be very useful.

[adamwathan]

Would be nice to do this but ends up being a lot more complicated than it sounds because of things we are still trying to make @apply support like:

#313

It would also be impossible to make this feature of @apply work in a standalone package:

#516

...which would be frustrating to constantly need to explain to people :/

Might reconsider extracting this somehow down the road once our internal version is bullet-proofed, but for now no concrete plans to turn it into a separate plugin.