snowpack-plugin-sass-compiler

This small snowpack plugin will gather all your spread out scss files within src folder, merge them, compile them into css and store them in a desired ouput folder. Then it's up to you how you want to use the outputted css file. But the main idea is to link to the outputted file directly in the html file.

The default output dir is within public folder. The reason why for that is then will snowpack itself take care adding the file to the build.

Note: Do not manually add the output dir. Just specify the output dir in the outputPath field and let the plugin automatically create that dir. Also, you should add the output dir to .gitignore so it never gets stored in the code tree.

Whats in it for me?

With this setup you can choose to add scss defaults (sass templates) stored in an other npm package. That means you can share base sass configuration between different projects and not reinvent the wheel al the time.

When will it run?

The plugin will run both on snowpack dev and snowpack build command.

Get started

npm i -D snowpack-plugin-sass-compiler

Configure the plugin

snowpack.config.js

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    ["snowpack-plugin-sass-compiler", {
      outputPath: `some/desired/dir/including-filename.css`, // Type: string, default: public/css-site/styles.css
      targetDirectory: ['src'], // Type: array. default: ['src']
      scssOptions: {
        outputStyle: 'compressed',
        includePaths: ['some-dir/to/included/scss/docs'], // Type: array. files where to locate included scss documents
        sourceMap: false,
      } // Type: object
    }],
  ],
}

Example how to add scss defaults

In this example i will use lb-styles as my defaults.

npm i -D snowpack-plugin-sass-compiler lb-styles

I will then copy the included scss variables into a local folders.

mkdir scss-settings && cp node_modules/lb-styles/settings scss-settings

Then i can modify the pre scss settings such as colors, fonts etc.

Finally i will attach my local scss settings to the plugin. I will also make all scss file in my src folder AND the defaults in the lb-styles package as target for the compiler.

snowpack.config.js

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    ["snowpack-plugin-sass-compiler", {
      targetDirectory: ["src", "node_modules/lb-styles/styles"],
      scssOptions: {
        includePaths: ['./scss-settings']
      }
    }],
  ],
}