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TAILWIND CSS HAS A SCALABILITY PROBLEM. HOW CAN WE SOLVE THAT?
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Tailwind CSS is known for its focus on class-based design, but the emphasis on classes can pose scalability challenges. These scalability issues arise from complex, dynamically generated class strings for components and conflicting styles due to the unpredictable order of class insertion. There are two solutions for addressing these problems: Class Variance Authority (CVA) and tailwind-merge. CVA introduces a Variants API for Tailwind, allowing developers to define variants and compound variants, which are activated based on specific prop combinations. Tailwind-merge resolves class conflicts by merging class sets and removing duplicates, ensuring that custom class overrides work as intended.