Feature Request: One SCSS file for each component

[wembernard]

Description

As a best practice, I would love to be able to have one SCSS file per component such as

src
├── app
│   ├── footer.html
│   ├── footer.scss
│   ├── footer.spec.ts
│   ├── footer.ts
│   ├── header.html
│   ├── header.scss
│   ├── header.spec.ts
│   ├── header.ts
│   ├── main.html
│   ├── main.scss
│   ├── main.spec.ts
│   ├── main.ts

Is it on your roadmap?

[micaelmbagira]

Hi @wembernard I am not sure about the question:

• do you want style to be splitted in one file per component in the generated templates ?
• or do you want to be able to create your own scss file, other than src/index.scss ? If so, you can do it by with sass @import (Or if you are using Angular 2 and React, you can specify the style directly in the js code)

[wembernard]

I'd like to have "one file per component" - each component having its own style.

Currently, I'm already using your workaround with @import but having some index.scss with

@import './app/footer.scss'
@import './app/header.scss'
@import './app/main.scss'
...

is kinda cumbersome and requires you to edit this file everytime you rename/delete some .scss file.

[micaelmbagira]

Well, there is no other way to do so... If you create a .scss file, you'll necessary need to add it into your index.scss. As I said, the other way is

if you are using Angular 2 and React, you can specify the style directly in the js code

[Swiip]

In gulp-angular we had a mechanism for auto injecting sub scss files in the index. It was no so great, and caused ordering problems. Now, modern fmk have their way to include style on each component.

So we're not going to reproduce auto injecting thing. Look at https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/component-styles.html instead.

[wembernard]

@Swiip I know and I loved it 👍 I fixed ordering problems by prefixing files with 10_, 20_ when necessary (which is very occasional).

About styleUrls property from @Component, is there a way to use a SCSS there "natively"? In that case, there is indeed no need for such feature ;)

[wembernard]

Ok, I found how to make this work. Here is an example:

@Component({
  selector: 'home',
  template: require('./home.component.html'),
  styles: [ String(require('./home.component.scss')) ]
})

Interesting notes:

• As you may notice, we use the same way we include with template option.
• The trick here is the use of String() on require(). If you don't, you'll get a Uncaught (in promise): Expected 'styles' to be an array of strings..
• The webpack conf already takes care of compiling your SCSS into CSS so you don't have to worry.

If you agree with this solution, I suggest to add this example in your generator :)

[Swiip]

Perfect, that was what I got in mind !

+1 for keeping this as an example

[zckrs]

Reopened to keep example

[PostImpatica]

The suggested solution is causing the the ecapsulation to drop. I removed "style" from the css loader and replaced it with css-to-string(-loader). Now I can use styles: [require('./home.scss')], like normal and encapsulation works. the main index.scss doesn't work but I don't care, I wasn't using it anyway.

[PostImpatica]

if you want to load both, change the index.scss file to index.global.scss then use the following:

`test: /global.(css|scss)$/,
        loaders: [
         'style',
      'css',
      'sass',
      'postcss'
    ]
  },
  {
    test: /\.(css|scss)$/,
    exclude: /global.(css|scss)$/,
    loaders: [
      'css-to-string',
      // 'style',
      'css',
      'sass',
      'postcss'
    ]
  },`

Afterwards, the index.global.scss file will load globally (I assume that's what's going on anyway) and the other scss files loaded in your modules will have encapsulation.

[teresapr]

I'm using an additional require expression for webpack, it is working, even if I think is not most elegant solution. The goal was to keep Angular2 syntax as clean as possible, ie not using require inside component:

 styles: [require('./footer.scss').toString()],
 template: require('./footer.html')

but rather this way:

`import {Component} from "@angular/core";

// for webpack
require('./footer.scss');

@Component({
     selector: 'footer',
     templateUrl: 'app/footer/footer.html',
    styleUrls: ['app/footer/footer.scss'],
})
export class FooterComponent {}`

Webpack is working fine this way.

Maybe someone is having a better solution?