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https://github.com/qodesmith/purgecss-whitelister

A utility for creating whitelists of CSS selectors for use with Purgecss.
https://github.com/qodesmith/purgecss-whitelister

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A utility for creating whitelists of CSS selectors for use with Purgecss.

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# Purgecss Whitelister

Create whitelists dynamically to include your 3rd party library styles! Supports css, sass, and less.

## Why this package?

While rebuilding my [personal site](http://aaroncordova.xyz) in React and using webpack + [purgecss-webpack-plugin](https://github.com/FullHuman/purgecss-webpack-plugin), I noticed that my 3rd party library, [Typer.js](https://github.com/qodesmith/typer) (it's really cool - it types things out on the screen like a typewriter), had its styles stripped from the bundle. While it wasn't _that_ big a deal to type out the few class names into a whitelist array, what if that list was huge? What if it was _yuuuge_? I needed a way to dynamically generate a whitelist of selectors. Boom. `purgecss-whitelister` was born.

## Installation

Via [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/purgecss-whitelister):

```bash
npm i purgecss-whitelister
```

## Usage

`purgecss-whitelister` is meant to extract all the selectors used in a file and create an array of names for whitelisting. ***Works with css, sass, and less!*** This is very handy when you have a 3rd party library that you don't want annihilated from your bundle.

Pass either a string, a globby string, or an array of either, representing the location(s) of the file(s) you want to completely whitelist.

**NOTE:** `purgecss-whitelister` will internally ignore any files that don't have the following extensions: `css`, `sass`, `scss`, `less`, or `pcss`.

**NOTE:** Use the `pcss` extension with caution. It may or may not work. `pcss` is a PostCSS file extension but has no official documentation. It's been added to this tool for convenience but YMMV. If anyone has info on the `pcss` extension, I'm all ears.

```javascript
const { resolve } = require('path')
const whitelister = require('purgecss-whitelister')

// Example 1 - simple string
whitelister('./relative/path/to/my/styles.css')

// Example 2 - array of strings
whitelister(['./styles1.css', './styles2.scss'])

// Example 3 - globby strings
whitelister('./3rd/party/library/*.less')

// Example 4 - array of globby strings
whitelister([
'./node_modules/lib1/*.css',
'./node_modules/lib2/*.scss',
'./node_modules/lib3/*.less'
])

// Example 5 - ALL THE THINGS
//
whitelister('./node_modules/cool-library/styles/*.*')
```

## Webpack Example

This is essentially what I'm using in my `webpack.config.js` file:
```javascript
const whitelister = require('purgecss-whitelister')
const PurgecssPlugin = require('purgecss-webpack-plugin')
const glob = require('glob-all')
const { resolve } = require('path')

const webpackConfig = {

// ...a whole buncha stuffs up here...

plugins: [
new PurgecssPlugin({
keyframes: false, // https://goo.gl/bACbDW
styleExtensions: ['.css'],
paths: glob.sync([
resolve(resolve(), 'src/**/*.js'),
resolve(resolve(), 'src/index.ejs')
]),

// `whitelist` needed to ensure Typer classes stay in the bundle.
whitelist: whitelister('node_modules/typer-js/typer.css');,
extractors: [
{
// https://goo.gl/hr6mdb
extractor: class AvoidBacktickIssue {
static extract(content) {
return content.match(/[A-Za-z0-9_-]+/g) || [];
}
},
extensions: ['js'] // file extensions
}
]
}),

// ...probably more plugins & things...
]
}
```