[Question] Is plugin(...) not necesarry?

[zaydek]

I’ve been pretty confused looking at other people’s source code and comparing that to the official docs, which states:

To get started with your first plugin, import Tailwind's plugin function from tailwindcss/plugin, and call it with an anonymous function as the first argument in the plugins list in your config file:

https://tailwindcss.com/docs/plugins/#app

I have found that you can omit the call to plugin and everything appears to work as expected — does anyone understand why that works?

[tlgreg]

Yes, tailwind accepts only the handler function as the plugin. Originally, that was the only option.

1.2 added the option for plugins to extend the config and with that, the tailwindcss/plugin function was also added.

In the future, other features might get added to plugins through the function or it could become mandatory (in a major release).

[zaydek]

Ah. I found this super confusing as the docs demonstrate creating a plugin by using plugin. Anyway, I’ve got it working now. Thank you.

[adamwathan]

Don't worry about what you see in other repos, just worry about what it says in the docs :) What's in the docs works and is what we recommend.

[zaydek]

Thank you!