I was designing a PCB to make a DotStar Micro LED (APA102–2020 datasheet) strip and I saw that none of the products sold in the Adafruit store uses capacitors in each led as every other LED Strip do.

Now in the product descriptions it says:

To keep the board small, we did not put any small surface-mount capacitors on the front. Instead, there's a power/ground pad set on the back and a 220uF capacitor that you can solder onto the back for a compact fit

So I'm trying to understand why having only one capacitor for the circuit is enough, in their Powering Neo Pixels (datasheet) guide it says that:

adding a large capacitor (1000 µF, 6.3V or higher) across the + and – terminals. This prevents the initial onrush of current from damaging the pixels. and all of the Neopixels led strips have individual capacitors as well

I didn't find anything that seems to answer my question in the datasheets, but since I'm making my own strip PCB would you say that it's better to have individual capacitors for each LED as well? and wouldn't voltage drops end up

In my application, I will just use the LED's momentarily in a suit so I would appreciate if I could remove the capacitor since I want the LED's to stay very close and would need to put the capacitor in the back of the PCB.

Also, it seems that the back of the PCB in the photo is the copper pour of the Ground and I Imagine the same goes for the Copper pour of the top part for the VCC, I've never seen a VCC copper pour (don't really have a lot of experience with PCB's) so it that what is happening here?

I will power my 256-516 strip with a 2S (7.4) Lipo Battery and a buck converter, so if the reliability of the power source could change the answer, I can try to buy a converter with the less ripple possible.

I was designing a PCB to make a DotStar Micro LED (APA102–2020 datasheet) strip and I saw that none of the products sold in the Adafruit store that uses these same LED's have capacitors in each led as every other LED Strip do.

Now in the product descriptions, it says:

To keep the board small, we did not put any small surface-mount capacitors on the front. Instead, there's a power/ground pad set on the back and a 220uF capacitor that you can solder onto the back for a compact fit

So I'm trying to understand why having only one capacitor for the circuit is enough, in their Powering Neo Pixels (datasheet) guide it says that:

adding a large capacitor (1000 µF, 6.3V or higher) across the + and – terminals. This prevents the initial onrush of current from damaging the pixels. and all of the Neopixels led strips have individual capacitors as well

I didn't find anything that seems to answer my question in the datasheets, but since I'm making my own strip PCB would you say that it's better to have individual capacitors for each LED as well? and wouldn't voltage drops end up

In my application, I will just use the LED's momentarily in a suit so I would appreciate if I could remove the individual capacitors for a single one since I want the LED's to stay very close and would need to put the capacitor in the back of the PCB.

Also, it seems that the back of the PCB in the photo is the copper pour of the Ground and I imagine the same goes for the Copper pour of the top part for the VCC, I've never seen a VCC copper pour (don't really have a lot of experience with PCB's) so it that what is happening here?

To sum everything up: I want to make 8 DotStar APA102–2020 LED strips 300mm long with 32 LED's in each of them. They will be placed inside a visor in a way to form a matrix with some horizontal space for visibility.

I will power my 256 LED strip with a 2S (7.4V) Lipo Battery and a buck converter, so if the reliability of the power source could change the answer, I can try to buy a converter with the less ripple possible.