typescript-transform-lit-css

typescript-transform-lit-css

TypeScript transformer to import css files as JavaScript tagged-template literal objects. Use it with ts-patch

The "Lit" stands for "Literal"

You can use it to import CSS for various libraries like lit-element, @microsoft/fast-element, or others.

Do I Need This?

No. This is an optional package who's sole purpose is to make it easier to write CSS-in-CSS while working on lit-element projects. You can just as easily write your CSS in some 'styles.css.js' modules a la:

import { css } from 'lit-element';
export default css`:host { display: block; }`;

And this may actually be preferred.

Hopefully this package will become quickly obsolete when the CSS Modules Proposal (or something like it) is accepted and implemented.

In the mean time, enjoy importing your CSS into your component files.

Options

Name	Accepts	Default
cssnano	Boolean*.	false
inline	Boolean, whether to inline css imports into the typescript source.	false
specifier	Package to import css from	lit
tag	Name of the template-tag function	css

NOTE: because the TypeScript compiler API is sync-only, only certain cssnano plugins are supported, and cssnano configuration options are not supported. See issue on cssnano. Certain optimizations will not apply.

Usage

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "plugins": [
      {
        "transform": "typescript-transform-lit-css",
      },
    ]
  }
}

Then import your CSS:

:host {
  display: block;
}

h1 {
  color: hotpink;
}

import { LitElement, customElement, html } from 'lit-element';

import style from './css-in-css.css';

@customElement('css-in-css')
class CSSInCSS extends LitElement {
  static get styles() {
    return [style];
  }

  render() {
    return html`<h1>It's Lit!</h1>`;
  }
}

Usage with FAST

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "plugins": [
      {
        "transform": "typescript-transform-lit-css",
        "specifier": "@microsoft/fast-element",
      },
    ]
  }
}

import { FASTElement, customElement, html } from '@microsoft/fast-element';

import styles from './css-in-css.css';

const template = html<CSSinCSS>`<h1>It's Lit!</h1>`;

@customElement({ name: 'css-in-css', template, styles })
class CSSinCSS extends FASTElement {}

Looking for esbuild? esbuild-plugin-lit-css Looking for webpack? lit-css-loader Looking for rollup? rollup-plugin-lit-css