So I decided on taking it upon myself to make a React template with Deno as the backend. So far its been a good balance between learning something that is familiar (React) and new (Deno). Ultimately I would like to make it usable so that anyone using React can download it and get right in. With that said, there is one issue I am having and its with CSS.
While I can import the components CSS into my component, Deno does not recognize it when running the server. It will throw an "Unknown MediaType" error. So far there is only 2 workarounds I've found:
Use inline styling and turn the CSS for that attribute into an object.
Put all the CSS into the static file thereby making the file longer.
Personally I would choose the second option than the first because at least I could use stuff like media queries. I have tried using the ESM version of the "styled-components" module yet that doesn't work either. Can anyone share what they have been doing?
Solved it.
I ended up using the ESM version of the "styled-components" module and then set up the server-side rendering in the response body. Cant believe this gave me 2 weeks of headaches.
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I am using styled-components in a React project. So far it has been working fine, but now I want to use the react-datepicker package, which requires its styles to be imported the following way:
import "react-datepicker/dist/react-datepicker.css";
However, importing the file causes an error that says "You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type". I know I could fix this by creating a handler for .css files, but I thought I could avoid that by using Styled Components.
My question is, is there a way to handle these type of imports with styled components? I've been loooking online for hours and can't seem to find a way.
I ended up just forking the project and changing it to use styled-components instead of needing to import the styles.
I'm using CSS Modules (Sass) with rollup on a component library project, which is working well. Each component ends up with a dist folder containing a single JS bundle file, and a corresponding CSS file with the scoped CSS classes so consumers of the component don't have to worry about CSS class name conflicts. All they do is include the JS bundle and the CSS file and everything is great. Yay CSS Modules.
The problem I'm now facing is that some components really need separate "themes" - ideally, separate CSS files, one per theme. So consumers can continue as they've been doing: including the JS bundle, but now choosing which CSS file to include to pick a theme.
I'm not sure how to get this going with CSS modules & rollup, and whether this is even the sort of approach others are taking. From what I can see, rollup always handles bundling things together, whereas I want separate CSS files, all of which get their classes renamed identically during the build phase. That way, if within my JS I refer to styles.myclass, if myclass had gotten renamed to scoped-myclass by CSS modules for the original CSS file, for a second CSS file it would also get the same name.
This would keep consumption of the component extremely simple - just a matter of including a different CSS file.
Any suggestions?
Awfully late, but let me answer this 3 years on. So what I ended up doing was totally detaching the CSS generation step from rollup and relying on the Sass CLI to handle that portion of the build process. It felt a bit klutzy, but I remember it wasn't awfully hard to do and solved the problem I outlined above. I don't believe there was a plain rollup solution at the time, nor do I think there's one today.
However... in my case the whole approach was kinda mistaken. This certainly won't be everyone's scenario, but let me spell it all out because hey it may be useful and it definitely wasn't obvious to me at the time.
This was for an in-house shared component library, where each component and its corresponding CSS was a separate npm package stored in our Artifactory. When it grew, plenty of internal references popped up, e.g. multiple components would reference the Button component, and over time they'd reference different versions of the Buttons component - each of which needed its own properly scoped CSS, unique to that package-version.
So what I found was that by doing it this way - having the CSS generated as part of the npm package dist files - I had to write an additional layer for the consumer applications that would parse their node_modules/ folder for our own internal components and combine all the different CSS files, such as the multiple versions of buttons. e.g. the main application would directly import buttons v1.0.0 in its package.json file, but the Dialog component (also included in the package.json) could include buttons 2.0.0 as its own dependency. For every version of the package, there was a uniquely scoped version of the CSS - so the consuming application HAD to include every version otherwise the styling would be borked.
So all in all, it ended up being way more complex that I wanted. I thought I could make it easier & better with the separate generated themed CSS files as part of the package dist, but it didn't end up that way. If I could revisit that project today, I'd re-examine a solution used by Material UI and others which I kinda poo-poo'd at the time: automatic injection of the CSS into the page by the component JS, rather than generating standalone CSS files which required extra work by the consumer applications to gather up and add to the final webpage. Frankly, now I regard it as the "least crap". There are definite downsides to the injection approach (extra work done on every page render for everyone! Yikes!), but there's no doubt in my mind it hugely simplifies the job of the consumer applications. It's a balancing act, but in 20-20 hindsight I'd lean towards the injection approach. With that, scoping & theming is a different and much simpler problem.
If I got you right, consider looking at SCSS plugin: rollup-plugin-scss. It captures all spare .css files imported in the components, and then processes them through underlying node-sass. The catch is, it seems like you can write a custom callback function that'd handle your CSSs differently based on conditions you throw in.
Based on the example from the plugin's page:
import scss from 'rollup-plugin-scss'
...
export default {
input: 'src/index.tsx',
output: [...],
plugins: [
...
output: function (styles, styleNodes) {
// replace this with conditioned outputs as needed:
writeFileSync('bundle1.css', styles)
writeFileSync('bundle2.css', styles)
},
]
}
I can't seem to import this bootstrap theme to my rails application.
https://github.com/puikinsh/sufee-admin-dashboard
I am trying to import this template for two days but no luck. It could be easy, but I don´t know what I´m doing wrong :(
I receive this error:
Undefined variable: "$border-color".
Undefined mixin ....
So I have got a problem with variables and mixins at the first time. I tried another template and it works, so I really don´t know what to try next.
Any hint or idea about how to solve this problem would be really appreciated.
Thanks
Porting a template into your Rails application is not hard if you break it down into several imprortant steps:
Import styles. From what I can see, your template is using sass along with plain css style files. You can pick one of those and copy the files into your /app/assets/stylesheets folder and importing them in your application.sass. The Undefined variable: "$border-color". points you towards missing variables.scss, which contains all the color variables for your template.
See if your template is using any third-party libraries or frameworks. In this particular example, there is a list of them in the repo's "Built With" section of the readme. Go through every single one of them and find gem versions of those libraries and add them to your Gemfile.
Copy non third-party Javascript files into your app/assets/javascripts. Require them in pagedown.coffee.erb along with third-party modules. Be sure to keep non third-party code below other modules to preserve functionality of code that relies on those modules.
Trim HTML templates into views. Figure out what part of your layout should be preserved for every page and put it into your layout view, break down the rest into controller-specific views.
There can be a lot of problems, but in general, just try to analyze the errors being thrown and solve them one by one.
I'm working on theming a web app, and I ran into a problem with an angular directive that is being used. It's called angular-knob, and it uses an HTML5 canvas to display a progress bar input. Since it's a canvas, you have to tell it the color in JavaScript instead of CSS. This is the problem.
The rest of the site is themed based on a set of LESS variables. I would like the canvas to be the color of #brand-primary from the variables.less file, which could also be overridden in other theme-*.less files. I haven't found a good solution to this yet, but these are some of the ideas I've had:
Parse the variables from the LESS file with some kind of ASP.Net utility (haven't found anything that would do this for me) to get the variable names and then render them to the client in a JavaScript variable (which I could then put in an angular service)
Have gulp parse the variables from the LESS file (again, haven't found any npm packages that would do this for me) and create a script that puts the variables in with the JavaScript bundle.
Like I said, I haven't found any LESS file parsing utilities for ASP.Net or npm that would get me access to the LESS variables.
How would you tackle this kind of problem? Has anyone else had to handle something like this?
As stated by Rob Dodson, style tags are now unavoidable with Web Components. I am trying to find a way to use LESS with this new tecnhology without having to paste the compiled CSS in my HTML document everytime I change something in the LESS file . Is there anyway to achieve that?
I am using Polymer.
Thanks!
Laurent
You can make the client compile the LESS to CSS , you should definitely take a look at this :
http://lesscss.org/#client-side-usage
It is advised to compile it yourself to css in a production environment though !
Doing this client-side hardly seems like the corrent solution, especially at scale. For instance, do you really want 1000 web components in your app all including LessCSS and compiling on the client side?
Just compile server-side and include the compiled version in your html import. Apps like DocPad, make this a lot easier. For instance:
src/documents/components/my-component/my-component.css.less is your source file, and is compiled to out/components/my-component/my-component.css, which is accessible at /compoennt/my-component/my-component.css.
We use this workflow to also make use of javascript pre-processors like coffeescript, as well as post-processors like css auto prefixer, and bundlers like Browserify. See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23050527/130638 for more info.
Simply compile your less and embed the generated CSS file via good old link tag.
I don't think that rob wanted to say that using style tags is the only way to go. You can still link to external stylesheets as you always did.
Why don´t you compile on server side using php compiler? Have a look here - http://leafo.net/lessphp/ -
To let you know, i´m using this compiler on my projects, on the server side without any kind of problems!!!!!!! :) IMO, it´s better to have the compilation work on the server side. I´m not totally 100% sure, but i think IE8 don´t recognize text/less
The way I have done this before is have individual .less or .scss file for each component and have it compile into the individual .css file which is then called into the respective component file. and finally vulcanize everything into a single file.
Incase you want to use a single CSS file, then use //deep// combinator or ::shadow pseudo elements in the CSS.
If you able to create the custom elements without using ShadowDOM then you can simply have all your less merge into a single CSS.
Honestly speaking I was unable to create a wc without shadowDOM in polymer. There is a long conversation on github on enabling / disabling and hacking a way to create a wc without shadowDOM here https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/issues/222
One solution would be to have the preprocessor translate .less files into .css and then linking them inside Polymer components, like explained in the official documentation: https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/docs/devguide/styling#external-stylesheets
Unfortunately this is deprecated. So the other way to go could be to have another step that wraps the preprocessor-generated css files with a dom-module: this way you can follow the Polymer way including the style module inside your components, or using the css file compiled from less if you do things outside Polymer components.
I'm using Gulp for my build process and I found this module very useful:
https://github.com/MaKleSoft/gulp-style-modules
It creates, for every .less file I have in my sources, an .html file with a dom-module wrapped around it, ready to be included in the components' styles.