css-media-vars

css-media-vars from PropJockey

A brand new way to write responsive CSS. Named breakpoints, DRY selectors, no scripts, no builds, vanilla CSS.

Docs+Demos at: https://propjockey.github.io/css-media-vars/

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/css-media-vars

GitHub: https://github.com/propjockey/css-media-vars

Install: $ npm install css-media-vars Then include the /node_modules/css-media-vars/css-media-vars.css file before any stylesheets that use it.

OR

Use your favorite NPM CDN and include it on your page before other stylesheets for small projects. Like so:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://unpkg.com/css-media-vars/css-media-vars.css">

Example of what your mobile-first CSS would look like

  .breakpoints-demo > * {
    --xs-width: var(--media-xs) 100%;
    --sm-width: var(--media-sm) 49%;
    --md-width: var(--media-md) 32%;
    --lg-width: var(--media-gte-lg) 24%;
    width: var(--xs-width, var(--sm-width, var(--md-width, var(--lg-width))));

    --sm-and-down-bg: var(--media-lte-sm) red;
    --md-and-up-bg: var(--media-gte-md) green;
    background: var(--sm-and-down-bg, var(--md-and-up-bg));
  }

VS Writing this same basic responsive CSS in the traditional way:

  .breakpoints-demo > * {
    width: 100%;
    background: red;
  }
  @media (min-width: 37.5em) and (max-width: 56.249em) {
    .breakpoints-demo > * {
      width: 49%;
    }
  }
  @media (min-width: 56.25em) and (max-width: 74.99em) {
    .breakpoints-demo > * {
      width: 32%;
    }
  }
  @media (min-width: 56.25em) {
    .breakpoints-demo > * {
      background: green;
    }
  }
  @media (min-width: 75em) {
    .breakpoints-demo > * {
      width: 24%;
    }
  }

css-media-vars let you write responsive, vanilla, CSS with named breakpoints, DRY selectors, and easier to mantain code.

New in v1.1.0

Write CSS that responds to the browser's support of @property from Houdini:

  .warning-at-property-unsupported {
    --display-block-if-unsupported: var(--media-at-property-unsupported) block;
    display: var(--display-block-if-unsupported, none); /* display: none if @property is supported */
  }
  .congrats-at-property-supported {
    --display-none-if-unsupported: var(--media-at-property-unsupported) none;
    display: var(--display-none-if-unsupported, block); /* display: block if @property is supported */
  }
  :root {
    --at-prop-unsupported-color: var(--media-at-property-unsupported) red;
    --at-prop-color: var(--at-prop-unsupported-color, green);
    /* var(--at-prop-color) will return: */
    /* red if @property is unsupported */
    /* green if @property is supported */
  }

Minification

Environments that force minification with PostCSS and cssnano (or other CSS minifiers) may produce invalid CSS by striping the space from a --custom-var: ; assignment. To avoid this with Create React App, copy css-media-vars.css into the public folder and manually include it in the index.html file to avoid the minification until they're fixed.

You can read more about using the public folder here: https://create-react-app.dev/docs/using-the-public-folder/

CHANGELOG:

v1.1.0 - June 27th, 2021:

• added --media-at-property-unsupported space toggle that detects CSS @property support

v1.0.0 - July 16th, 2020:

• Initial release