PostCSS is a tool for transforming styles with JS plugins. These plugins can lint your CSS, support variables and mixins, transpile future CSS syntax, inline images, and more.
PostCSS is used by industry leaders including Wikipedia, Twitter, Alibaba, and JetBrains. The Autoprefixer and Stylelint PostCSS plugins are some of the most popular CSS tools.
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PostCSS takes a CSS file and provides an API to analyze and modify its rules (by transforming them into an Abstract Syntax Tree). This API can then be used by plugins to do a lot of useful things, e.g., to find errors automatically, or to insert vendor prefixes.
Currently, PostCSS has more than 200 plugins. You can find all of the plugins in the plugins list. Below is a list of our favorite plugins — the best demonstrations of what can be built on top of PostCSS.
If you have any new ideas, PostCSS plugin development is really easy.
postcss-useallows you to explicitly set PostCSS plugins within CSS and execute them only for the current file.postcss-modulesandreact-css-modulesautomatically isolate selectors within components.postcss-autoresetis an alternative to using a global reset that is better for isolatable components.postcss-initialaddsall: initialsupport, which resets all inherited styles.cq-prolyfilladds container query support, allowing styles that respond to the width of the parent.
autoprefixeradds vendor prefixes, using data from Can I Use.postcss-preset-envallows you to use future CSS features today.
postcss-nestedunwraps nested rules the way Sass does.postcss-sortingsorts the content of rules and at-rules.postcss-utilitiesincludes the most commonly used shortcuts and helpers.shortadds and extends numerous shorthand properties.
postcss-urlpostcss plugin to rebase url(), inline or copy asset.postcss-spritesgenerates image sprites.font-magiciangenerates all the@font-facerules needed in CSS.postcss-inline-svgallows you to inline SVG and customize its styles.postcss-write-svgallows you to write simple SVG directly in your CSS.webp-in-cssto use WebP image format in CSS background.avif-in-cssto use AVIF image format in CSS background.
stylelintis a modular stylesheet linter.stylefmtis a tool that automatically formats CSS accordingstylelintrules.doiuselints CSS for browser support, using data from Can I Use.colorguardhelps you maintain a consistent color palette.
cssnanois a modular CSS minifier.lostis a feature-richcalc()grid system.rtlcssmirrors styles for right-to-left locales.
PostCSS can transform styles in any syntax, not just CSS. If there is not yet support for your favorite syntax, you can write a parser and/or stringifier to extend PostCSS.
sugarssis a indent-based syntax like Sass or Stylus.postcss-syntaxswitch syntax automatically by file extensions.postcss-htmlparsing styles in<style>tags of HTML-like files.postcss-markdownparsing styles in code blocks of Markdown files.postcss-styled-syntaxparses styles in template literals CSS-in-JS like styled-components.postcss-jsxparsing CSS in template / object literals of source files.postcss-styledparsing CSS in template literals of source files.postcss-scssallows you to work with SCSS (but does not compile SCSS to CSS).postcss-sassallows you to work with Sass (but does not compile Sass to CSS).postcss-lessallows you to work with Less (but does not compile LESS to CSS).postcss-less-engineallows you to work with Less (and DOES compile LESS to CSS using true Less.js evaluation).postcss-jsallows you to write styles in JS or transform React Inline Styles, Radium or JSS.postcss-safe-parserfinds and fixes CSS syntax errors.midasconverts a CSS string to highlighted HTML.
- Some things you may think about PostCSS… and you might be wrong
- What PostCSS Really Is; What It Really Does
- PostCSS Guides
More articles and videos you can find on awesome-postcss list.
- Mastering PostCSS for Web Design by Alex Libby, Packt. (June 2016)
You can start using PostCSS in just two steps:
- Find and add PostCSS extensions for your build tool.
- Select plugins and add them to your PostCSS process.
The best way to use PostCSS with CSS-in-JS is astroturf.
Add its loader to your webpack.config.js:
module.exports = {
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.css$/,
use: ['style-loader', 'postcss-loader'],
},
{
test: /\.jsx?$/,
use: ['babel-loader', 'astroturf/loader'],
}
]
}
}Then create postcss.config.js:
/** @type {import('postcss-load-config').Config} */
const config = {
plugins: [
require('autoprefixer'),
require('postcss-nested')
]
}
module.exports = configParcel has built-in PostCSS support. It already uses Autoprefixer
and cssnano. If you want to change plugins, create postcss.config.js
in project’s root:
/** @type {import('postcss-load-config').Config} */
const config = {
plugins: [
require('autoprefixer'),
require('postcss-nested')
]
}
module.exports = configParcel will even automatically install these plugins for you.
Please, be aware of the several issues in Version 1. Notice, Version 2 may resolve the issues via issue #2157.
Use postcss
8000
-loader in webpack.config.js:
module.exports = {
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.css$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
use: [
{
loader: 'style-loader',
},
{
loader: 'css-loader',
options: {
importLoaders: 1,
}
},
{
loader: 'postcss-loader'
}
]
}
]
}
}Then create postcss.config.js:
/** @type {import('postcss-load-config').Config} */
const config = {
plugins: [
require('autoprefixer'),
require('postcss-nested')
]
}
module.exports = configUse gulp-postcss and gulp-sourcemaps.
gulp.task('css', () => {
const postcss = require('gulp-postcss')
const sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps')
return gulp.src('src/**/*.css')
.pipe( sourcemaps.init() )
.pipe( postcss([ require('autoprefixer'), require('postcss-nested') ]) )
.pipe( sourcemaps.write('.') )
.pipe( gulp.dest('build/') )
})To use PostCSS from your command-line interface or with npm scripts
there is postcss-cli.
postcss --use autoprefixer -o main.css css/*.cssIf you want to compile CSS string in browser (for instance, in live edit tools like CodePen), just use Browserify or webpack. They will pack PostCSS and plugins files into a single file.
To apply PostCSS plugins to React Inline Styles, JSS, Radium
and other CSS-in-JS, you can use postcss-js and transforms style objects.
const postcss = require('postcss-js')
const prefixer = postcss.sync([ require('autoprefixer') ])
prefixer({ display: 'flex' }) //=> { display: ['-webkit-box', '-webkit-flex', '-ms-flexbox', 'flex'] }- Grunt:
@lodder/grunt-postcss - HTML:
posthtml-postcss - Stylus:
poststylus - Rollup:
rollup-plugin-postcss - Brunch:
postcss-brunch - Broccoli:
broccoli-postcss - Meteor:
postcss - ENB:
enb-postcss - Taskr:
taskr-postcss - Start:
start-postcss - Connect/Express:
postcss-middleware - Svelte Preprocessor:
svelte-preprocess
For other environments, you can use the JS API:
const autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer')
const postcss = require('postcss')
const postcssNested = require('postcss-nested')
const fs = require('fs')
fs.readFile('src/app.css', (err, css) => {
postcss([autoprefixer, postcssNested])
.process(css, { from: 'src/app.css', to: 'dest/app.css' })
.then(result => {
fs.writeFile('dest/app.css', result.css, () => true)
if ( result.map ) {
fs.writeFile('dest/app.css.map', result.map.toString(), () => true)
}
})
})Read the PostCSS API documentation for more details about the JS API.
All PostCSS runners should pass PostCSS Runner Guidelines.
Most PostCSS runners accept two parameters:
- An array of plugins.
- An object of options.
Common options:
syntax: an object providing a syntax parser and a stringifier.parser: a special syntax parser (for example, SCSS).stringifier: a special syntax output generator (for example, Midas).map: source map options.from: the input file name (most runners set it automatically).to: the output file name (most runners set it automatically).
In some situations it might be helpful to fail the build on any warning
from PostCSS or one of its plugins. This guarantees that no warnings
go unnoticed, and helps to avoid bugs. While there is no option to enable
treating warnings as errors, it can easily be done
by adding postcss-fail-on-warn plugin in the end of PostCSS plugins:
module.exports = {
plugins: [
require('autoprefixer'),
require('postcss-fail-on-warn')
]
}csstools.postcssadds PostCSS support.smallcase.postcssenseadds Intellisense for global classes
Syntax-highlighting-for-PostCSSadds PostCSS highlight.
postcss.vimadds PostCSS highlight.
To get support for PostCSS in WebStorm and other JetBrains IDEs you need to install this plugin.
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