This PR doesn't fix any issues, but it does add an integration test (as
a regression test) to make sure that `@variant` with default variants
and custom variants can be used inside of JS based plugin APIs.
In Tailwind CSS v4.3.1 we introduced a PR that handles `@variant` in the
`addBase` Plugin API
(https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/19480). This was a bit
of an older PR, but the tests made sense, so it was merged.
However, by introducing that PR, we introduced a bug that the `@variant`
was handled too early. If you added custom variants later _and_ used it
in the `addBase`, then you would get an error since the variant isn't
available (yet).
That issue was fixed by
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/20247
Now the question remains, why did we even have the original PR when it
already worked?
The use case we had was using `@variant` as part of the
`@tailwindcss/typography` plugin configuration for one of our templates.
I was indeed able to reproduce the issue where `@variant lg` was seen in
the output CSS file.
Turns out that this template was using `@tailwindcss/typography` +
`@variant` in the configuration, but it was also using Tailwind CSS
v4.1.15.
Upgrading to the latest version automagically fixed the issue we had.
This is also the behavior you can see in the integration test.
The correct behavior was introduced in an even older PR
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/19263
All that said, everything should work in the next release related to
`@variant` usages inside JS based APIs.
**Tiny improvement**
While debugging what's going on, I noticed that we looped over the AST
to get some nodes out and we did that twice. This PR also improves that
by re-using the same list of nodes instead of computing it twice. This
won't have a huge impact, but it happened while compiling every single
utility which is not ideal.
## Test plan
1. All tests should pass
2. I can't see `@variant` in the output CSS file
Input:
<img width="655" height="323" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/20c8d524-3575-488c-b0c0-5c4669f37dc7"
/>
Before:
<img width="477" height="175" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/045e2086-1d4b-487c-96ff-676351412935"
/>
After:
<img width="484" height="175" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/24d950b1-7c28-40f8-96bc-81b38be0e7a3"
/>
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