Parsing and Stringifying CSS
If you want to parse CSS to a abstract syntax tree (AST) then there are two solutions you might want to consider:
reworkcss/css
was written originally for Node.js but work well when consumed
from a CDN. Importing from esm.sh
also automatically combines the type
definitions from DefinitelyTyped. It should be noted though that types on
DefinitelyTyped are not very good as many union types that should be tagged
union types are just union types which leave the types very ambiguous and
require a lot of type casting.
Also, if you want to take an AST and generate CSS, reworkcss/css
also provides
capability to stringify the AST it generates.
deno_css
is authored in TypeScript specifically for Deno and is available on
deno.land/x
.
reworkcss/css
Basic example with In this example, we will parse some CSS into an AST and make a modification to
the background
declaration of the body
rule, to change the color to white
.
Then we will stringify the modified CSS AST and output it to the console:
import * as css from "https://esm.sh/css@3.0.0";
import { assert } from "https://deno.land/std@0.181.0/testing/asserts.ts";
declare global {
interface AbortSignal {
reason: unknown;
}
}
const ast = css.parse(`
body {
background: #eee;
color: #888;
}
`);
assert(ast.stylesheet);
const body = ast.stylesheet.rules[0] as css.Rule;
assert(body.declarations);
const background = body.declarations[0] as css.Declaration;
background.value = "white";
console.log(css.stringify(ast));
deno_css
A basic example with In this example, we will parse some CSS into an AST and log out the background
declaration of the body
rule to the console.
import * as css from "https://deno.land/x/css@0.3.0/mod.ts";
const ast = css.parse(`
body {
background: #eee;
color: #888;
}
`);
const [body] = ast.stylesheet.rules;
const [background] = body.declarations;
console.log(JSON.stringify(background, undefined, " "));