What is postcss-import?
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.
What are postcss-import's main functionalities?
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'] }) ]);
Other packages similar to postcss-import
postcss-easy-import
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.
postcss-partial-import
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.
postcss-advanced-variables
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-import
PostCSS plugin to transform @import
rules by inlining content.
This plugin can consume local files, node modules or web_modules.
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:
- This plugin should probably be used as the first plugin of your list.
This way, other plugins will work on the AST as if there were only a single file
to process, and will probably work as you can expect.
- This plugin works great with
postcss-url plugin,
which will allow you to adjust assets
url()
(or even inline them) after
inlining imported files. - In order to optimize output, this plugin will only import a file once on
a given scope (root, media query...).
Tests are made from the path & the content of imported files (using a hash
table).
If this behavior is not what you want, look at
skipDuplicates
option
Installation
$ npm install postcss-import
Usage
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.
var fs = require("fs")
var postcss = require("postcss")
var atImport = require("postcss-import")
var css = fs.readFileSync("css/input.css", "utf8")
postcss()
.use(atImport())
.process(css, {
from: "css/input.css"
})
.then(function (result) {
var output = result.css
console.log(output)
})
Using this input.css
:
@import "cssrecipes-defaults";
@import "normalize.css";
@import "css/foo.css";
@import "css/bar.css" (min-width: 25em);
body {
background: black;
}
will give you:
@media (min-width: 25em) {
}
body {
background: black;
}
Checkout tests for more examples.
Options
root
Type: 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.
path
Type: String|Array
Default: []
A string or an array of paths in where to look for files.
transform
Type: 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.
plugins
Type: Array
Default: undefined
An array of plugins to be applied on each imported files.
onImport
Type: Function
Default: null
Function called after the import process. Take one argument (array of imported
files).
resolve
Type: 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.
load
Type: 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.
skipDuplicates
Type: 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.
addDependencyTo
Type: 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)
}
Example with some options
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
})
CONTRIBUTING
- ⇄ Pull requests and ★ Stars are always welcome.
- For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.
- Pull requests must be accompanied by passing automated tests (
$ npm test
).