PostCSS eSplit

PostCSS plugin for splitting css into multiple css files with sourcemaps support for preventing limitation of shinny ie9.

/* Input example - style.css */
@charset "UTF-8";
 
.someClass {
    display: block;
}
 
@media (max-width: 768px) {
    p {
        color: red;
    }
 
    em {
        color: blue;
    }
}

/* Output example with maxSelectors = 2 */
 
/* style.css */
@charset "UTF-8";
@import url(style-0.css);
 
@media (max-width: 768px) {
    em {
        color: blue;
    }
}
 
 
/* style-0.css */
.someClass {
    display: block;
}
 
@media (max-width: 768px) {
    p {
        color: red;
    }
}
 

Install

npm install postcss-esplit --save

Usage

postcss([ require('postcss-esplit')(/*opts*/) ])

See PostCSS docs for examples for your environment.

Also, starting from version 0.0.2 there are no need to place the plugin in the end of the processor plugins list.

Options

• maxSelectors {number=4000} count of selectors exceeding which css file should be separated
• fileName {string=%original%-%i%} template for retrieving name of separated files
  • %original% {string} name of original file
  • %i% {number} index of separated file
• fileNameStartIndex {number=0} separated files will receive generated name starting from this index
• writeFiles {boolean=true} separated files should be written to the disk
• writeSourceMaps {boolean=true} source maps of separated files should be written to the disk
• writeImport {boolean=true} original css source should have import declaration for separated files
• quiet {boolean-false} toggling console output