What's the state of this project? Production ready? If not, what needs to happen to be production ready?

MeoMix commented 9 years ago

Hey,

I spent the last few days attempting to integrate JSPM + CSS Modules w/ this loader, but it did not result in success. Here I'm outlining my pain points and wondering when I should revisit this project for production use.

PostCSS version is split across v4 and v5. https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules-loader-core/issues/21
Documentation out of date. There was a large PR recently accepted, https://github.com/geelen/jspm-loader-css/pull/23. This new code makes the current example for a css.js file incorrect.
Lag during development. There was a non-trivial amount of waiting after every reload for this loader to parse CSS and apply it. This lag is not present when using the default JSPM css plugin.
Bundling support. The current implementation does not appear to be able to easily bundle and inline code. At the very least, there's no minification step and no documentation indicating that it does support bundling, but I suspect that with the above PR changes the basics of bundling do work.

douglasduteil commented 8 years ago

Hi @MeoMix i'm the one to blame for this https://github.com/geelen/jspm-loader-css/pull/23. I'll try to help on documentation update here. Sry

geelen commented 8 years ago

Hey @MeoMix, this project went a bit stale once CSS Modules took off and I started working full time (and not using JSPM day-to-day :sob:), but I really want it to become the default CSS loader, that's built in a much more flexible way (and supporting ICSS out-of-the-box) so that any PostCSS plugin can be built against it. It was almost there a few months ago, and then with PostCSS v5 and SystemJS 18 & 19 it broke.

I believe the biggest priority right now is a test suite that we can all build against (and have Greenkeeper test dependency updates against). Then it will be a lot easier to allow contributions, and users can have a lot more confidence in using this.

For a proper production-ready release, bundling and documentation are definitely needed. Also a configuration format that can mean jspm-loader-css-modules doesn't need to exist and customising PostCSS plugins is easy. I'd love it if you'd be willing to help!

What timezone are you and @douglasduteil in, shall we have a discussion in Gitter next time we're all awake at the same time?

douglasduteil commented 8 years ago

I'm in Paris @geelen UTC/GMT +2 hours I saw you kicking in at 1am for me yesterday :night_with_stars:

JHKennedy4 commented 8 years ago

Just pulled down this project and getting errors out of the box. Would love to get it back on track. What's the overall direction of the project at the moment, and where should I get started?

peteruithoven commented 8 years ago

@MeoMix seems to be hard at work in his fork, wouldn't it be an idea to make him a contributor and merge the two?

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