What is postcss-scss?
The postcss-scss npm package is a syntax parser that allows PostCSS to process SCSS syntax. It enables users to work with SCSS-like syntax in PostCSS, which is a tool for transforming styles with JavaScript. This package does not compile SCSS into CSS but instead allows you to manipulate SCSS sources within PostCSS plugins.
What are postcss-scss's main functionalities?
Parsing SCSS Syntax
This feature allows developers to parse SCSS syntax using PostCSS. The code sample demonstrates how to set up PostCSS to process a string of SCSS code using the postcss-scss syntax parser.
const postcss = require('postcss');
const syntax = require('postcss-scss');
postcss(plugins)
.process(scssCode, { syntax: syntax })
.then(result => {
console.log(result.css);
});
Linting SCSS
This feature enables the use of stylelint for linting SCSS files by specifying the postcss-scss parser as the syntax. The code sample shows how to configure stylelint to lint SCSS files using the postcss-scss syntax.
const stylelint = require('stylelint');
const scssSyntax = require('postcss-scss');
stylelint.lint({
files: 'src/**/*.scss',
syntax: scssSyntax
}).then(function (result) {
console.log(result.output);
});
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node-sass
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less
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PostCSS SCSS Syntax
A SCSS parser for PostCSS.
This module does not compile SCSS. It simply parses mixins as custom
at-rules & variables as properties, so that PostCSS plugins can then transform
SCSS source code alongside CSS.
Docs
Read full docs here.