css-visor

The ultimate style-loader replacement you knew you needed

css-visor is like a supervisor that finds, injects and updates your imported stylesheets - with sourcemaps and no Flash of Unstyled Content

Background

css-visor was created out of long living pain as seen in:

• #613 - css-loader with sourceMap: true cause adding style tag delayed

• #591 - Use css sourceMaps in development

Usage

Install it

npm install --save-dev css-visor

Light it up

// webpack.config.js

const CSSVisor = require('css-visor')
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin')

module.exports = {
    // existing config
    module: {
        rules: [{
            test: /\.css$/,
            use: [
                {
                    loader: 'css-visor/loader',
                    // Optional
                    options: {
                        /**
                         * Path prefix you'd like to be prefixed in <link> tag
                         * 
                         * Default: ''
                         *  => <link href="https://github.com/zikaari/css-visor/blob/master/styles/button.da3n1b.css">
                         * 
                         * Custom: 'static/base'
                         *  => <link href="https://github.com/zikaari/css-visor/blob/master/static/base/styles/button.da3n1b.css">
                         */
                        pathPrefix: 'static/styles' // default: ''
                    }
                },
                {
                    loader: 'css-loader',
                    options: {
                        sourceMap: true,
                    }
                },
                // more loaders (sass, postcss)
            ]
        }]
    },
    plugins: [
        new CSSVisor(),
        new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
            inject: true
        })
    ]
}

It should now be working out of the box.

Not working? Make sure to have css-visor/loader right before css-loader and instance of CSSVisor in plugins list of your webpack config.

Still not working? Please file an issue to have it known

This release is only compatible with webpack 4 and up. To use with an older version of webpack use npm i css-visor@1.0, although 1.0 is no longer maintained

Reliability

css-visor is literally built from source of extract-loader. So far, it has shown no problems, even with imported stylsheets, images/svg's (processed through url-loader/file-loader).

The only things you can import in a CSS file anyway.

External Licenses

Much of the code taken from extract-loader which is Unlicensed, see extract-loader/LICENSEfor more information.