CSS Operators

Work in Progress

A combination of a Postcss Plugin and Webpack Loader on top of CSS Modules to add operators to CSS.

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CSS Module

/* Button.module.css */

.Button {
  border-radius: 10px;

  (variant = primary) {
    background-color: blue;
    color: white;
  }

  (variant = secondary) {
    background-color: lightblue;
    color: blue;
  }

  (size = 100) {
    padding: 3px 6px;
  }

  (size = 200) {
    padding: 6px 12px;
  }
}

Javascript

// React

import useCssProps from "css-operators/react";
import buttonClasses from "./Button.module.css";

function Button(props) {
  // The extra props will be deleted from the result object
  const cssProps = useCssProps("Button", buttonClasses, props);

  return <button {...cssProps} />;
}

function App() {
  return (
    <Button variant="primary" size={100}>
      Hello World
    </Button>
  );
}

OR

// Vanilla

import getClassName from "css-operators";
import buttonClasses from "./Button.module.css";

const className = getClassName("Button", buttonClasses, {
  variant: "primary",
  size: 100,
});

const button = document.createElement("button");

button.className = className;

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Setup

// postcss.config.js

// postcss-nested is a required plugin and it needs to be added after the css-operators
module.exports = {
  plugins: ["css-operators/postcss-plugin", "postcss-nested"],
};

// Webpack (Next.js, Storybook, ...)

const injectCssOperators = require("css-operators/injectOnWebpack");

module.exports = {
  webpack(config) {
    injectCssOperators(config);

    return config;
  },
};

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API

Operator	Behavior	Description	JS Equivalent
=	Equality	Compare the stringfied version of two values	==
!=	Inequality	Compare the difference of two values, transforming bools and nums	!==
>	Greater than operator	Compare the difference of two numeric values	>
<	Less than operator	Compare the difference of two numeric values	<
>=	Greater than or equal operator	Compare the difference of two numeric values	>=
<=	Less than or equal operator	Compare the difference of two numeric values	<=

import getClassName from "css-operators"

// cssKey as string - the base class of your .module.css file. The same file can have multiple of these.
// cssModule as object - the import of the .module.css file. It will be parsed on webpack to a better format.
// props as object - the props object to compare with the operators.

// className as string - returns the parsed class name;

const className = getClassName(cssKey, cssModule, props);

import useCssProps from "css-operators/react"

// arguments as the same of getClassName function

// cssProps as object - returns a shallow copied object with the className added and the used props deleted

const cssProps = useCssProps(cssKey, cssModule, props);

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Misc

You can mix some approaches to create a good way to organize your styles.

Tailwind CSS

/* Button.module.css */

.Button {
  @apply rounded;

  (variant = primary) {
    @apply bg-blue-500 text-white;
  }

  (variant = secondary) {
    @apply bg-blue-100 text-blue-500;
  }

  (size = 100) {
    @apply px-3 py-2;
  }

  (size = 200) {
    @apply px-6 py-4;
  }
}