Meteor CSS Minifier with PostCSS processing.
This package works with Meteor 1.4.1, but because of Meteor's build system nature it might be hard to use it with many different PostCSS plugins. If you can and want to help, it would be very appreciated. Thanks! Check out all issues before you use it. If you need it only for Autoprefixer it should work well. I can't guarantee that all PostCSS's plugins will work.
Version 1.1.1 is for Meteor 1.3.*. For older Meteor versions you can use 0.2.5
This package allows you to use PostCSS plugins with .css files. You can add your custom plugins by adding Npm packages using package.json. You can also use your favourite preprocessor side by side with this package. It allows you to enable many PostCSS plugins, for example Autoprefixer for all preprocessors you use. (Of course you can use it whithout any preprocessor too).
Read more below...
- Blog post: Some things you may think about PostCSS... and you might be wrong
- Blog post: How to use PostCSS in Meteor
- Blog post: How to use CSS linter in Meteor (example of PostCSS plugin usage)
$ meteor remove standard-minifier-css
$ meteor add juliancwirko:postcss
From Meteor 1.3 you can use standard NPM package.json. You can add PostCSS plugins in devDependencies. You can also install it like npm install autoprefixer --save-dev.
Then you need to prepare PostCSS configuration under the postcss.plugins.
Important: Even if you don't want to provide any options you should list your PostCSS plugins in postcss.plugins key. This works that way because order here is important. For example 'postcss-easy-import' should be always first PostCSS plugin on the list and 'autoprefixer' should be the last PostCSS plugin on the list. And devDependencies items can be automatically reordered when installing new by npm install ... --save-dev.
See example:
package.json (example):
{
"name": "demo PostCSS app",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"author": "",
"devDependencies": {
"autoprefixer": "^6.3.5",
"mocha": "^2.4.5",
"postcss-easy-import": "^1.0.1",
"postcss-nested": "^1.0.0",
"postcss-simple-vars": "^1.2.0",
"rucksack-css": "^0.8.5"
},
"postcss": {
"plugins": {
"postcss-easy-import": {},
"postcss-nested": {},
"postcss-simple-vars": {},
"rucksack-css": {},
"autoprefixer": {"browsers": ["last 2 versions"]}
}
}
}
Make sure that the plugins that you list in "plugins" are also in "devDependencies" as well. You may not need the plugins in this example, so please include them only if you need them.
Remember to run npm install or npm update after changes.
You can add more plugins here.
If you want to change something in postcss config later, you should restart your app and also change any .css file to rerun build plugin.
From version 1.0.0 you can configure parser for PostCSS. To do this you can add parser key in the package.json file under the postcss key. Let's see an example:
{
"name": "demo PostCSS app",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"author": "",
"devDependencies": {
"autoprefixer": "^6.3.4",
"postcss-safe-parser": "^1.0.7"
},
"postcss": {
"plugins": {
"autoprefixer": {"browsers": ["last 2 versions"]}
},
"parser": "postcss-safe-parser"
}
}
As you can see we use here postcss-safe-parser which will repair broken css syntax. This is just one example. You can find a list of parsers here: https://github.com/postcss/postcss#syntaxes. You can use postcss-scss parser or postcss-less parser.
Because PostCSS processes all CSS files in Meteor, it will also process CSS files from Meteor packages. This is good in most cases and will not break anything, but sometimes it could be problematic.
If you have installed a package which is problematic and PostCSS plugins can't process the CSS files from that package you can exclude it in the process. See for example this issue: #14. In this case you need to exclude constellation:console package because it uses not standard CSS in its files. PostCSS plugin can't process that file. You can exclude it so it will be not processed by PostCSS, but it will be still bundled as is.
If you want to exclude a package you need to use postcss.excludedPackages key, see the example below:
{
"name": "demo PostCSS app",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"author": "",
"devDependencies": {
"autoprefixer": "^6.3.4",
"postcss-safe-parser": "^1.0.7"
},
"postcss": {
"plugins": {
"autoprefixer": {"browsers": ["last 2 versions"]}
},
"parser": "postcss-safe-parser",
"excludedPackages": ["constellation:console"]
}
}
Remember that you should provide a package name which contains a problematic CSS file and not global wrapper package In this example you want to install babrahams:constellation but in fact the problematic package is constellation:console which is installed with babrahams:constellation. You'll find which package makes troubles by looking into the consolle errors. For example here we have something like:
While minifying app stylesheet:
packages/constellation_console/client/Constellation.css:118:3: postcss-simple-vars:
/workspace/meteor/postcss-demo/packages/constellation_console/client/Constellation.css:118:3: Undefined variable $c1
Css Syntax Error.
postcss-simple-vars: /workspace/meteor/postcss-demo/packages/constellation_console/client/Constellation.css:118:3: Undefined variable $c1
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(#000, #000);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='$c1', endColorstr='$c2',GradientType=0);
^
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.6);
So we know that this is the problem with constellation:console package.
You can use imports with postcss-easy-import plugin. Remember that postcss-easy-import plugin should be loaded first (so put it on the first place in the packages.json file under the 'postcss.plugins' key).
You need to use .import.css extension and standard import like with preprocessors @import "my-file.import.css"; Files with .import.css will be ommited by css minifier from this package. You can also put them in an imports folder (from Meteor 1.3). Also read more about postcss-easy-import and postcss-import which is a part of the first one.
Imports from Meteor packages will not work. But there is a good news too. from Meteor 1.3 you can use standard Npm packages and imports from node_modules should work. So you will be able to import css files from instaled Npm packages. You will be able to do something like: @import 'my-npm-lib/styles.css';
You can use it side by side with your favourite preprocessor. There is an example in the demo app.
You should be able to use PostCSS plugins syntax in the .styl or .scss files too. (Tested only with Stylus).
Check out the demo repo. This is the best way of learning.
This package (in version 1.0.0) will work only with Meteor 1.3
If you want to migrate to version 1.0.0 you need to rid meteorhacks:npm package and also remove npm-container which is created by meteorhacks:npm you should remove it by meteor remove meteorhacks:npm npm-container you can also remove it from packages folder.
You need to remove packages.json (created by meteorhacks:npm) and postcss.json which you should have if you use postcss package.
For now everything is configured in one package.json file (read above) which is a standard Npm configuration file. From Meteor 1.3 you can use standard Npm config so this is the better approach.
Remember to move your all configuration entries from packages.json and postcss.json to package.json according the 'Usage' section of this docs.
Remove the package by meteor remove juliancwirko:postcss and add it again meteor add juliancwirko:[email protected] it should install current version.
Make sure that you have standard-minifier-js package installed, if not add it by meteor add standard-minifier-js. Also make sure that you don't have standard-minifiers-js package (there was a name change). In Meteor 1.3 there are 2 separate packages for css and js minifiers and the css one is included in juliancwirko:postcss. Previously there was also js minifier. Now it is removed so you need to add it by hand.
MIT
- PostCSS and Bootstrap 4 with Scss from Npm package - experiment
- sGrid - Flexbox Grid System for Stylus with PostCSS
- v1.1.1 Removed
fs.existsSynccall because of #18 - v1.1.0 Exclude Meteor package option #14
- v1.0.0 Version bump for Meteor 1.3
- v1.0.0-rc.12 Version bump for Meteor 1.3 rc 12
- v1.0.0-rc.10 Version bump for Meteor 1.3 rc 10
- v1.0.0-rc.4 Version bump for Meteor 1.3 rc 4
- v1.0.0-rc.2 Version bump for Meteor 1.3 rc 2
- v1.0.0-beta.11 Versions bump for Meteor 1.3 beta 11
- v1.0.0-beta.1 Modifications for Meteor 1.3 beta 4
- v0.2.5 Removed Promise Polyfill #4
- v0.2.4 Catch PostCSS 'CssSyntaxError' #3
- v0.2.3 PostCSS (v5.0.12) version bump
- v0.2.2 PostCSS (v5.0.11) version bump - performance improvements