Distribution of basscss@7.1.1 as a dependency-free npm package that indicates its main file in package.json.
npm i -S @bzelip/basscss7.1.1@import '@bzelip/basscss7.1.1';Verify that ./basscss@7.1.1.min.css is the same as https://unpkg.com/basscss@7.1.1/css/basscss.min.css.
npm testBasscss was amazing when it came out, and inspired much innovation in the CSS world. Its author is a front end and design system hero.
While the project is no longer active and stopped at version 8.x, version 7.1.1 remains my favorite.
Basscss came out at the time when folks were just starting to stretch the intended use of npm from distributing Node server files to distributing web development tools more broadly, including CSS.
But there weren't many conventions or tools for this shift yet. So single assets in packages like Basscss were awkwardly copied to CSS directories from node_modules/, or imported explicitly from node_modules/.
@import '../node_modules/basscss/css/basscss.min.css';😵
Also, installing basscss@7.1.1 adds 30 total packages. It's not that big of a deal, especially since they're all small packages. But when working in a build environment like Netlify or GitHub Actions, time is money.
I'd rather publish a fork that ships 5 files total and can be imported using it's package name (using a tool like postcss-import), eg:
@import 'basscss';Brian Zelip, https://zelip.me
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