postcss-import
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The postcss-import npm package is a plugin for PostCSS that allows you to import local files, node modules, or web_modules into your CSS files. It can be used to modularize your CSS and help manage large stylesheets by splitting them into smaller, more maintainable pieces.
Importing local files
Allows you to import a local CSS file into another CSS file. This is useful for splitting your CSS into smaller, more manageable files.
@import 'local-file.css';Importing node modules
Enables you to import CSS from a node module installed in your project's node_modules directory. This is useful for including third-party stylesheets in your project.
@import 'npm-module-name';Importing from web_modules
Allows you to import CSS from web_modules, which can be useful if you are using a package manager that supports this feature, like Snowpack.
@import 'web-module-name';Customizing import paths
Lets you customize the paths where postcss-import looks for CSS files to import. This is helpful when you have a specific directory structure and want to keep your imports clean and relative to those paths.
postcss([ require('postcss-import')({ path: ['src/css', 'src/styles'] }) ]);A wrapper around postcss-import that adds glob pattern importing and other features. It is similar to postcss-import but with additional options for ease of use.
Another PostCSS plugin that allows you to import partials. It is similar to postcss-import but with a focus on partials and includes features like prefixing and extension omission.
While not solely focused on importing, this plugin extends CSS with variables, conditionals, and iterators that can be imported from other files. It offers a different set of features compared to postcss-import, which is focused on importing CSS files.
PostCSS plugin to transform
@importrules by inlining content.
This plugin can consume local files, node modules or bower packages.
To resolve path of an @import rule, it can look into root directory
(by default process.cwd()), web_modules, node_modules
or local modules.
When importing a module, it will looks for index.css or file referenced in
package.json in the style or main fields.
You can also provide manually multiples paths where to look at.
Notes:
url() (or even inline them) after
inlining imported files.skipDuplicates option$ npm install postcss-import
If your stylesheets are not in the same place where you run postcss
(process.cwd()), you will need to use from option to make relative imports
work from input dirname.
// dependencies
var fs = require("fs")
var postcss = require("postcss")
var atImport = require("postcss-import")
// css to be processed
var css = fs.readFileSync("css/input.css", "utf8")
// process css
postcss()
.use(atImport())
.process(css, {
// `from` option is required so relative import can work from input dirname
from: "css/input.css"
})
.then(function (result) {
var output = result.css
console.log(output)
})
Using this input.css:
/* can consume `node_modules`, `web_modules` or local modules */
@import "cssrecipes-defaults"; /* == @import "./node_modules/cssrecipes-defaults/index.css"; */
@import "normalize.css"; /* == @import "./node_modules/normalize.css/normalize.css"; */
@import "css/foo.css"; /* relative to stylesheets/ according to `from` option above */
@import "css/bar.css" (min-width: 25em);
body {
background: black;
}
will give you:
/* ... content of ./node_modules/cssrecipes-defaults/index.css */
/* ... content of ./node_modules/normalize.css/normalize.css */
/* ... content of foo.css */
@media (min-width: 25em) {
/* ... content of bar.css */
}
body {
background: black;
}
Checkout tests for more examples.
rootType: String
Default: process.cwd() or dirname of
the postcss from
Define the root where to resolve path (eg: place where node_modules are).
Should not be used that much.
Note: nested @import will additionally benefit of the relative dirname of
imported files.
pathType: String|Array
Default: []
A string or an array of paths in where to look for files.
transformType: Function
Default: null
A function to transform the content of imported files. Take one argument (file
content) and should return the modified content or promise with it.
undefined result will be skipped.
pluginsType: Array
Default: undefined
An array of plugins to be applied on each imported files.
onImportType: Function
Default: null
Function called after the import process. Take one argument (array of imported files).
resolveType: Function
Default: null
You can overwrite the default path resolving way by setting this option.
This function gets (id, basedir, importOptions) arguments and returns full
path, array of paths or promise resolving paths.
You can use resolve for that.
loadType: Function
Default: null
You can overwrite the default loading way by setting this option.
This function gets (filename, importOptions) arguments and returns content or
promised content.
skipDuplicatesType: Boolean
Default: true
By default, similar files (based on the same content) are being skipped.
It's to optimize output and skip similar files like normalize.css for example.
If this behavior is not what you want, just set this option to false to
disable it.
addDependencyToType: Function
Default: null
Allow to generate and call a callback that take one argument, the object from
which you need to call addDependency from.
Called whenever a file is imported, handy in a webpack workflow.
It's equivalent to onImport with the following code:
{
onImport: function (files) {
files.forEach(this.addDependency)
}.bind(obj) // obj = the argument you should pass to `addDependencyTo()`
}
var postcss = require("postcss")
var atImport = require("postcss-import")
postcss()
.use(atImport({
path: ["src/css"]
transform: require("css-whitespace")
}))
.process(cssString)
.then(function (result) {
var css = result.css
})
$ npm test).FAQs
PostCSS plugin to import CSS files
We found that postcss-import demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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