what is the motivation behind renaming purge to content?

[ikhattab]

what is the motivation behind renaming purge to content in tailwind.config.js ?

[surjithctly]

From the upgrade guide:

Since Tailwind no longer uses PurgeCSS under the hood, we’ve renamed the purge option to content to better reflect what it’s for:

In short, its using JIT mode so no purging is needed.

[ikhattab]

@surjithctly this is helpful, thank you 🙏🏽