postcss-font-grabber

PostCSS Font Grabber

A postcss plugin, it grabs remote font files and update your CSS, just like that.

postcss-font-grabber v3.x only works with postcss v8，for postcss v7, please take a look at the v2.x branch.

Motivation

You may not want to use remote fonts, because:

• It may expose your internal project
• Font services could be unstable sometimes
• You can do more things with local font files
• GDPR compliance

Features

• Support custom download function (the download option)
• Written in TypeScript
• Standalone without any dependency
• Download font files concurrently
• Infer font file extension from HTTP response header (Thanks to @FTWinston)

Installation

Requires: Node >= 10.0, postcss 8.*

npm install postcss postcss-font-grabber --save-dev

Options

Function postcssFontGrabber takes an object of options as parameter, like:

import { postcssFontGrabber } from 'postcss-font-grabber';

postcssFontGrabber({
  cssSrc: 'src/css/',
  cssDest: 'dist/',
  fontDest: 'dist/fonts/',
});

Name	Type	Default	Description
cssSrc	string	opts.from from PostCSS's setting	The root directory path of all CSS files
cssDest	string	opts.to from PostCSS's setting	The directory where the transpiled CSS files are in
fontDest	string	the same as cssDest	The directory where the downloaded fonts stored
download	(fontSpec: FontSpec) => Promise<{ data: Readable, mimeType?: string }>	-	Custom function to download font files

You can import types as shown above:

import { FontSpec, Downloader, DownloadResult } from 'postcss-font-grabber';

Usages

With Gulp

gulp.task('css', () => {
  const postcss = require('gulp-postcss');
  const { postcssFontGrabber } = require('postcss-font-grabber');

  return gulp
    .src('src/css/**/*.css')
    .pipe(
      postcss([
        postcssFontGrabber({
          // postcss-font-grabber needs to know the CSS output
          // directory in order to calculate the new font URL.
          cssDest: 'dist/',
          fontDest: 'dist/fonts/',
        }),
      ]),
    )
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist/'));
});

With Webpack

This example is using Webpack 5 with these packages:

• postcss-loader
• css-loader
• file-loader

webpack.config.js:

import path from 'path';

module.exports = {
  entry: './src/index.js',
  output: {
    filename: 'bundle.js',
    path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'),
  },
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.css$/i,
        use: ['style-loader', 'css-loader', 'postcss-loader'],
      },
      {
        test: /\.(woff|woff2|eot|ttf|otf)$/i,
        use: ['file-loader'],
      },
    ],
  },
};

postcss.config.js:

import { postcssFontGrabber } from 'postcss-font-grabber';

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    postcssFontGrabber({
      cssSrc: 'src/css/',
      // When using with `Webpack` you must set `cssDest` as the same as `cssSrc`,
      // since `Webpack` kept updated CSS files in memory, your source files will
      // be fine.
      // When `PostCSS` is done its job, `Webpack` then use `file-loader` to
      // embedding font file references into the dist file.
      cssDest: 'src/css/',
      fontDest: 'tmp/css/fonts/',
    }),
  ],
};

With Only PostCSS

PostCSS-Font-Grabber will use from and to options of PostCSS setting as the default options of cssSrc (from), cssDest and fontDest (to).

Advanced Usages

TODO

License

Licensed under the APACHE LISENCE 2.0.

Credits

PostCSS

PostCSS Copy Assets

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