@easy-webpack/config-css

Include and inject css using css-loader and style-loader

Or emit a CSS file of all required css using extract-text-plugin (default behaviour)

Installation

npm install --save-dev @easy-webpack/config-css

easy-webpack is also required.

Usage

// webpack.config.js
const generateConfig = require('@easy-webpack/core').generateConfig;

const baseConfig = { ... }; // project-specific config like the entry file

module.exports = generateConfig(
  baseConfig,

  require('@easy-webpack/config-css')
    ({/* Options object */ filename: 'styles.css', allChunks: true, sourceMap: false })
);

// This config will generate a CSS file named 'style.css' on output path of all required sources

On any JavaScript module, simply import your css file and they will be included in output css.

// app.js
require('./style.css')  // CommonJS style import
import './style.css'    // ES Module import

Remember to include the css file in your HTML.

Options

extractText

Type: boolean | ExtractTextPlugin instance | ExtractTextPlugin config object Default: true

Toggle mode of this plugin. If this is false, inline mode will be used. No additional CSS file will be generated and all imported css modules will be injected by style-loader.

Unless you have special needs, it is not recommended to turn on inline mode because of performance issue.

You can configure the behaviour of extract-text-plugin by passing options of it using any of the following methods.

const generateConfig = require('@easy-webpack/core').generateConfig;

// Pass in ExtractTextPlugin instance
const ExtractTextPlugin = require("extract-text-webpack-plugin");
var extractText = new ExtractTextPlugin({
  disable: false,
    allChunks: false,
    id: 'my-unique-id'
}); 

// Pass in plain config object
var extractText = {
  disable: false,
  allChunks: false,
  id: 'my-unique-id'
};

generateConfig(
  require('@easy-webpack/config-css')
    ({ extractText: extractText })
)

Note: other options will have a higher priority on overriding extract text plugin options. For example, if extractText.allChunks is false while allChunks on config-css options is true, the result would be true.

filename

Type: string Default: [name].css

Filename of the extracted css file. Similar to webpack's output filename, a dynamic name can be used. The following string will be substituted.

• [name] the name of the chunk
• [id] the number of the chunk
• [contenthash] a hash of the content of the extracted file

allChunks

Type: boolean Default: false

By default, extract-text-plugin only extract initial chunk(s). If this is true, additional chunks will also be extracted.

sourceMap

Type: boolean Default: false

If true, emit a sourcemap of the CSS bundle.

resolveRelativeUrl

Type: boolean | resolve-url-loader config object Default: false

If not false, use resolve-url-loader to resolve relative url before css-loader issue require request.

This option can be an plain object containing options for resolve-url-loader.

If resolve-url-loader is turned on, sourceMap will be set to true as the plugin requires source map to function.

additionalLoaders

Type: string[] Default: []

Additional loaders.

This array of loaders will be pushed to the end of loader list. For instance,

(Take inline mode loader chain as example,)
style-loader!css-loader!additional-loaders1!additional-loaders2

test

Type: Webpack Condition Default: /\.css$/i

Condition for this config to apply. See webpack module condition guide.

Related tutorials

• Webpack 1 stylesheet guide
• Webpack 2 extracting CSS from bundle

Tips

Minify CSS

css-loader have built in minification facility using cssnano.

Minification is highly recommended in production as it can greatly reduce chunk size and give better performance on loading.

To enable minification, you must enable minification flag on webpack.

For webpack 1, include uglifyJS plugin.

For webpack 2, include uglifyJS plugin or include a loader-options-plugin.

Or just include config-uglify.

Note on using loader-options-plugin: You may only use this plugin once with a given test, as it will override all the options once used and can cause problems

const webpack = require('webpack');
const generateConfig = require('@easy-webpack/core').generateConfig;
// webpack 1 / webpack 2
generateConfig(
  require('@easy-webpack/config-css')(),
  {
    plugins: [new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin()]
  }
);

// webpack 2 only
generateConfig(
  require('@easy-webpack/config-css')(),
  {
    plugins: [new webpack.LoaderOptionsPlugin({
      test: /\.css$/,
      minimize: true
    })]
  }
);

// config-uglify
generateConfig(
  require('@easy-webpack/config-css')(),
  require('@easy-webpack/config-uglify')()
);

Currently, there is no way to pass in option to cssnano.