What is stylelint-webpack-plugin?
The stylelint-webpack-plugin is a plugin for Webpack that integrates Stylelint, a popular CSS linter, into the Webpack build process. It helps developers enforce consistent coding styles and catch errors in CSS, SCSS, and other style files.
What are stylelint-webpack-plugin's main functionalities?
Linting CSS files
This feature allows you to lint all CSS files in your project. The plugin will check for style errors and enforce coding standards as defined in your Stylelint configuration.
const StylelintPlugin = require('stylelint-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = {
plugins: [
new StylelintPlugin({
files: '**/*.css',
}),
],
};
Linting SCSS files
This feature allows you to lint all SCSS files in your project. The plugin will check for style errors and enforce coding standards as defined in your Stylelint configuration.
const StylelintPlugin = require('stylelint-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = {
plugins: [
new StylelintPlugin({
files: '**/*.scss',
}),
],
};
Custom Stylelint configuration
This feature allows you to specify a custom Stylelint configuration file. The plugin will use the rules defined in the specified configuration file to lint your style files.
const StylelintPlugin = require('stylelint-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = {
plugins: [
new StylelintPlugin({
configFile: '.stylelintrc.json',
}),
],
};
Fixing errors automatically
This feature allows the plugin to automatically fix certain style errors. It can save time by correcting issues that can be automatically resolved according to the Stylelint rules.
const StylelintPlugin = require('stylelint-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = {
plugins: [
new StylelintPlugin({
fix: true,
}),
],
};
Other packages similar to stylelint-webpack-plugin
eslint-webpack-plugin
The eslint-webpack-plugin integrates ESLint into the Webpack build process. While ESLint is primarily used for JavaScript and TypeScript linting, it can also be configured to lint styles in JavaScript files. However, it is not as specialized for CSS and SCSS as stylelint-webpack-plugin.
postcss-loader
The postcss-loader is a Webpack loader that processes CSS with PostCSS. While it is not a linter, it can be used with PostCSS plugins like stylelint to achieve similar functionality. It offers more flexibility but requires additional configuration.
stylelint
Stylelint is the core linter that stylelint-webpack-plugin integrates with. It can be used directly in a project without Webpack, often through a task runner like Gulp or Grunt, or via command line. Using it directly offers more control but requires manual integration into the build process.
stylelint-webpack-plugin
A Stylelint plugin for webpack
Install
npm install stylelint-webpack-plugin --save-dev
Note: You also need to install stylelint
from npm, if you haven't already:
npm install stylelint --save-dev
Usage
In your webpack configuration:
const StylelintPlugin = require('stylelint-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = {
plugins: [new StylelintPlugin(options)],
};
Options
See stylelint's options for
the complete list of options available. These options are passed through to the
stylelint
directly.
configFile
- Type:
String
- Default:
undefined
Specify the config file location to be used by stylelint
.
Note: By default this is handled by stylelint
.
context
- Type:
String
- Default:
compiler.context
A string indicating the root of your style files.
files
- Type:
String|Array[String]
- Default:
'**/*.s?(a|c)ss'
Specify the glob pattern for finding files. Must be relative to options.context
.
formatter
- Type:
Function
- Default:
require('stylelint').formatters.string
Specify a custom formatter to format errors printed to the console.
lintDirtyModulesOnly
- Type:
Boolean
- Default:
false
Lint only changed files, skip lint on start.
stylelintPath
- Type:
String
- Default:
stylelint
Path to stylelint
instance that will be used for linting.
syntax
- Type:
String
- Default:
undefined
See the styelint
user guide for more info.
e.g. use 'scss'
to lint .scss files.
Errors and Warning
By default the plugin will auto adjust error reporting depending on stylelint errors/warnings counts.
You can still force this behavior by using emitError
or emitWarning
options:
emitError
- Type:
Boolean
- Default:
false
Will always return errors, if this option is set to true
.
emitWarning
- Type:
Boolean
- Default:
false
Will always return warnings, if option is set to true
.
failOnError
- Type:
Boolean
- Default:
false
Will cause the module build to fail if there are any errors, if option is set to true
.
failOnWarning
- Type:
Boolean
- Default:
false
Will cause the module build to fail if there are any warnings, if option is set to true
.
quiet
- Type:
Boolean
- Default:
false
Will process and report errors only and ignore warnings, if this option is set to true
.
Acknowledgement
This project was inspired by, and is a heavily modified version of
sasslint-webpack-plugin
.
Thanks to Javier (@vieron) for authoring this
plugin.
Changelog
Changelog
License
MIT