web-dev-server-plugin-lit-css

Web Dev Server plugin to import css files as JavaScript tagged-template literal objects.

The "Lit" stands for "Literal"

You can use it to import CSS for various libraries like lit-element, @microsoft/fast-element, or others.

Do I Need This?

No. This is an optional package who's sole purpose is to make it easier to write CSS-in-CSS while working on lit-element projects. You can just as easily write your CSS in some 'styles.css.js' modules a la:

import { css } from 'lit-element';
export default css`:host { display: block; }`;

And this may actually be preferred.

Hopefully this package will become quickly obsolete when the CSS Modules Proposal (or something like it) is accepted and implemented.

In the mean time, enjoy importing your CSS into your component files.

Options

| Name | Accepts | Default | | ----------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------- | | include | Array of glob of files to include. | ['**/*.css'] | | exclude | Array of glob of files to exclude. | undefined | | cssnano | Boolean or Object of cssnano options. | false | | specifier | Package to import css from | lit | | tag | Name of the template-tag function | css | | transform | Optional function (sync or async) which transforms css sources (e.g. postcss) | x => x |

Usage

import litcss from 'web-dev-server-plugin-lit-css';

export default {
  ...config,
  plugins: [
    litcss({
      include: ['**/elements/**/*.css'],
      exclude: ['**/docs/**/*.css'],
      cssnano: true,
    })
  ]
}

Then import your CSS:

:host {
  display: block;
}

h1 {
  color: hotpink;
}

import { LitElement, html } from 'lit';
import { customElement } from 'lit/decorators.js';

import style from './css-in-css.css';

@customElement('css-in-css')
class CSSInCSS extends LitElement {
  static readonly styles = [style];

  render() {
    return html`<h1>It's Lit!</h1>`;
  }
}

Usage with FAST

plugins: [
  litcss({ specifier: '@microsoft/fast-element' })
]

import { FASTElement, customElement, html } from '@microsoft/fast-element';

import styles from './css-in-css.css';

const template = html<CSSinCSS>`<h1>It's Lit!</h1>`;

@customElement({ name: 'css-in-css', template, styles })
class CSSinCSS extends FASTElement {}

Usage with Sass, Less, PostCSS, etc.

To load scss files:

1. Specify an include option which includes scss files (i.e. a glob or regexp)
2. Define a transform function in the plugin options.

import litcss from 'web-dev-server-plugin-lit-css';
import Sass from 'sass';

export default {
  plugins: [
    litcss({
      include: '/**/*.scss',
      transform: (data, { filePath }) =>
        Sass.renderSync({ data, file: filePath })
          .css.toString(),
    }),
  ]
}

Similarly, to transform sources using PostCSS, specify a transform function:

import litcss from 'web-dev-server-plugin-lit-css';
import postcss from 'postcss';
import postcssNesting from 'postcss-nesting';

const processor = postcss(postcssNesting());

export default {
  plugins: [
    litcss({
      include: '**/*.css',
      transform: (css, { filePath }) =>
        processor.process(css, { from: filePath })
          .css,
    }),
  ]
}

Looking for rollup? rollup-plugin-lit-css Looking for esbuild? esbuild-plugin-lit-css Looking for webpack? lit-css-loader