detective-scss

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Find the dependencies of an scss file

npm install detective-scss

Note: This is specific to the .scss style syntax of the Sass preprocessor. For Sass support, please see node-detective-sass.

It's the SASS counterpart to detective, detective-amd, and detective-es6.

Usage

ESM

import fs from 'node:fs';
import detective from 'detective-scss';

const content = fs.readFileSync('styles.scss', 'utf8');

// list of imported file names (ex: '_foo.scss', '_foo', etc)
const dependencies = detective(content);

// or to also detect any url() references to images, fonts, etc.
const allDependencies = detective(content, { url: true });

CommonJS

const { default: detective } = require('detective-scss');

Options

  • url (optional): (Boolean) also detect any url() references to images, fonts, etc.
  • node-sass-lookup if you want to map a sass/scss dependency to a file on your filesystem.
  • node-precinct if you want to also support finding dependencies for JavaScript and other languages.

License

MIT