Make PostCSS plugin async to improve performance (#11548)

* make main plugin async

This way we can improve the `fs.readFileSync` to a bunch of
`fs.promises.readFile` in a `Promise.all` instead.

* make CLI plugin async

* update CHANGELOG

Author: RobinMalfait

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Escape animation names when prefixes contain special characters ([#11470](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/11470))
 - Sort classes using position of first matching rule ([#11504](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/11504))
 - Allow variant to be an at-rule without a prelude ([#11589](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/11589))
+- Make PostCSS plugin async to improve performance ([#11548](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/11548))
 
 ### Added
 

src/cli/build/plugin.js

@@ -278,9 +278,9 @@ export async function createProcessor(args, cliConfigPath) {
   let tailwindPlugin = () => {
     return {
       postcssPlugin: 'tailwindcss',
-      Once(root, { result }) {
+      async Once(root, { result }) {
         env.DEBUG && console.time('Compiling CSS')
-        tailwind(({ createContext }) => {
+        await tailwind(({ createContext }) => {
           console.error()
           console.error('Rebuilding...')
 

src/lib/expandTailwindAtRules.js

@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ function buildStylesheet(rules, context) {
 }
 
 export default function expandTailwindAtRules(context) {
-  return (root) => {
+  return async (root) => {
     let layerNodes = {
       base: null,
       components: null,
@@ -145,12 +145,14 @@ export default function expandTailwindAtRules(context) {
       //   getClassCandidatesOxide(file, transformer(content), extractor, candidates, seen)
       // }
     } else {
-      for (let { file, content, extension } of context.changedContent) {
-        let transformer = getTransformer(context.tailwindConfig, extension)
-        let extractor = getExtractor(context, extension)
-        content = file ? fs.readFileSync(file, 'utf8') : content
-        getClassCandidates(transformer(content), extractor, candidates, seen)
-      }
+      await Promise.all(
+        context.changedContent.map(async ({ file, content, extension }) => {
+          let transformer = getTransformer(context.tailwindConfig, extension)
+          let extractor = getExtractor(context, extension)
+          content = file ? await fs.promises.readFile(file, 'utf8') : content
+          getClassCandidates(transformer(content), extractor, candidates, seen)
+        })
+      )
     }
 
     env.DEBUG && console.timeEnd('Reading changed files')

src/plugin.js

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ module.exports = function tailwindcss(configOrPath) {
           console.time('JIT TOTAL')
           return root
         },
-      function (root, result) {
+      async function (root, result) {
         // Use the path for the `@config` directive if it exists, otherwise use the
         // path for the file being processed
         configOrPath = findAtConfigPath(root, result) ?? configOrPath
@@ -25,14 +25,14 @@ module.exports = function tailwindcss(configOrPath) {
 
           for (const root of roots) {
             if (root.type === 'root') {
-              processTailwindFeatures(context)(root, result)
+              await processTailwindFeatures(context)(root, result)
             }
           }
 
           return
         }
 
-        processTailwindFeatures(context)(root, result)
+        await processTailwindFeatures(context)(root, result)
       },
       __OXIDE__ &&
         function lightningCssPlugin(_root, result) {

src/processTailwindFeatures.js

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import { createContext } from './lib/setupContextUtils'
 import { issueFlagNotices } from './featureFlags'
 
 export default function processTailwindFeatures(setupContext) {
-  return function (root, result) {
+  return async function (root, result) {
     let { tailwindDirectives, applyDirectives } = normalizeTailwindDirectives(root)
 
     detectNesting()(root, result)
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ export default function processTailwindFeatures(setupContext) {
 
     issueFlagNotices(context.tailwindConfig)
 
-    expandTailwindAtRules(context)(root, result)
+    await expandTailwindAtRules(context)(root, result)
+
     // Partition apply rules that are generated by
     // addComponents, addUtilities and so on.
     partitionApplyAtRules()(root, result)