Component load order

You may need to specify your component’s dependency on other components or files from other components using your component’s composer.json. Further, you can specify a load order in your component’s module.xml file using the <sequence> tag to ensure that needed files from other components are already loaded when your component loads.

<sequence> declares the list of components that must be loaded before the current component is loaded. It’s used for loading different kind of files: configuration files, view files (including CSS, Less, and template files), or setup classes. Note that <sequence> does not affect the loading of regular classes (non-setup classes). Setup classes are classes in the component that create or update database schema or data.

https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.4/extension-dev-guide/build/module-load-order.html