Partial Import

Partial Import lets you use sugary @import statements in CSS, including glob-like and Sass-like behavior. It even lets you generates imports as a scaffolding tool.

/* before: style.css */
 
@import "foo/bar";
 
/* before: foo/bar.css */
 
.example-1 {
    background-color: #fafafa;
}
 
/* after: style.css */
 
.example-1 {
    background-color: #fafafa;
}

Options

root

Type: String
Default: from or process.cwd()

The root where paths are resolved. This should be the directory containing node_modules.

path

Type: String | Array
Default: []

A path or paths used to locate files.

plugins

Type: Array
Default: undefined

An array of plugins to be applied to imported file.

onImport

Type: Function
Default: null

The function called after the import process, receiving an array of imported files.

resolve

Type: Function
Default: null

A custom resolver, receiving the id, basedir, and importOptions of an import.

load

Type: Function
Default: null

A custom loader, receiving the filename, importOptions, and content or promised content.

skipDuplicates

Type: Boolean
Default: true

Whether similar files (based on the same content) will be skipped.

prefix

Type: String
Default: ""

Leading characters conditionally prepended to imports which are not found without them. For Sass-like, use "_".

glob

Type: Boolean | Object
Default: true

Whether glob-like behavior should be supported by imports. An object passed here will be forwarded to glob in order to change pattern matching behavior.

touch

Type: Boolean
Default: false

Whether imports should be created as files if they do not already exist.

extension

Type: String
Default: .css

A file extension conditionally appended to touched imports which do not specify an extension.

Usage

Add Partial Import to your build tool:

npm install postcss-partial-import --save-dev

Node

require('postcss-partial-import').process(YOUR_CSS, { /* options */ });

PostCSS

Add PostCSS to your build tool:

npm install postcss --save-dev

Load Partial Import as a PostCSS plugin:

postcss([
    require('postcss-partial-import')({ /* options */ })
]).process(YOUR_CSS, /* options */);

Gulp

Add Gulp PostCSS to your build tool:

npm install gulp-postcss --save-dev

Enable Partial Import within your Gulpfile:

var postcss = require('gulp-postcss');
 
gulp.task('css', function () {
    return gulp.src('./src/*.css').pipe(
        postcss([
            require('postcss-partial-import')({ /* options */ })
        ])
    ).pipe(
        gulp.dest('.')
    );
});

Grunt

Add Grunt PostCSS to your build tool:

npm install grunt-postcss --save-dev

Enable Partial Import within your Gruntfile:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-postcss');
 
grunt.initConfig({
    postcss: {
        options: {
            use: [
                require('postcss-partial-import')({ /* options */ })
            ]
        },
        dist: {
            src: '*.css'
        }
    }
});