mini-css-extract-plugin

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mini-css-extract-plugin

[!WARNING]

mini-css-extract-plugin is deprecated — webpack extracts CSS into separate files itself and no longer needs it.

Read the Native CSS guide and follow its migration guide.

Existing setups keep working: built-in CSS support stays off for any .css rule that already has a loader, so you can migrate one rule at a time.

This plugin extracts CSS into separate files. It creates a CSS file for each JS file that contains CSS. It supports On-Demand-Loading of CSS and SourceMaps.

It builds on top of a new webpack v5 feature and requires webpack 5 to work.

Compared to the extract-text-webpack-plugin:

• Async loading
• No duplicate compilation (performance)
• Easier to use
• Specific to CSS

Getting Started

To begin, you'll need to install mini-css-extract-plugin:

npm install --save-dev mini-css-extract-plugin

or

yarn add -D mini-css-extract-plugin

or

pnpm add -D mini-css-extract-plugin

It's recommended to combine mini-css-extract-plugin with the css-loader

Then add the loader and the plugin to your webpack configuration. For example:

style.css

body {
  background: green;
}

component.js

import "./style.css";

webpack.config.js

const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require("mini-css-extract-plugin");

module.exports = {
  plugins: [new MiniCssExtractPlugin()],
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.css$/i,
        use: [MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader, "css-loader"],
      },
    ],
  },
};

[!WARNING]

Note that if you import CSS from your webpack entrypoint or import styles in the initial chunk, mini-css-extract-plugin will not load this CSS into the page automatically. Please use html-webpack-plugin for automatic generation link tags or manually include a <link> tag in your index.html file.

[!WARNING]

Source maps works only for source-map/nosources-source-map/hidden-nosources-source-map/hidden-source-map values because CSS only supports source maps with the sourceMappingURL comment (i.e. //# sourceMappingURL=style.css.map). If you need set devtool to another value you can enable source maps generation for extracted CSS using sourceMap: true for css-loader.

Options

Plugin Options

• filename
• chunkFilename
• ignoreOrder
• insert
• attributes
• linkType
• runtime
• experimentalUseImportModule

filename

Type:

type filename =
  | string
  | ((pathData: PathData, assetInfo?: AssetInfo) => string);

Default: [name].css

This option determines the name of each output CSS file.

Works like output.filename

chunkFilename

Type:

type chunkFilename =
  | string
  | ((pathData: PathData, assetInfo?: AssetInfo) => string);

Default: Based on filename

Specifying chunkFilename as a function is only available in webpack@5

This option determines the name of non-entry chunk files.

Works like output.chunkFilename

ignoreOrder

Type:

type ignoreOrder = boolean;

Default: false

Remove Order Warnings. See examples for more details.

insert

Type:

type insert = string | ((linkTag: HTMLLinkElement) => void);

Default: document.head.appendChild(linkTag);

Inserts the link tag at the given position for non-initial (async) CSS chunks

[!WARNING]

Only applicable for non-initial (async) chunks.

By default, the mini-css-extract-plugin appends styles (<link> elements) to document.head of the current window.

However in some circumstances it might be necessary to have finer control over the append target or even delay link elements insertion. For example this is the case when you asynchronously load styles for an application that runs inside of an iframe. In such cases insert can be configured to be a function or a custom selector.

If you target an iframe, make sure that the parent document has sufficient access rights to reach into the frame document and append elements to it.

string

Allows to setup custom query selector. A new <link> element will be inserted after the found item.

webpack.config.js

new MiniCssExtractPlugin({
  insert: "#some-element",
});

A new <link> tag will be inserted after the element with the ID some-element.

function

Allows to override default behavior and insert styles at any position.

⚠ Do not forget that this code will run in the browser alongside your application. Since not all browsers support latest ECMA features like let, const, arrow function expression and etc we recommend you to use only ECMA 5 features and syntax.

⚠ The insert function is serialized to string and passed to the plugin. This means that it won't have access to the scope of the webpack configuration module.

webpack.config.js

new MiniCssExtractPlugin({
  insert(linkTag) {
    const reference = document.querySelector("#some-element");
    if (reference) {
      reference.parentNode.insertBefore(linkTag, reference);
    }
  },
});

A new <link> tag will be inserted before the element with the ID some-element.

attributes

Type:

type attributes = Record<string, string>;

Default: {}

[!WARNING]

Only applies to non-initial (async) chunks.

If defined, the mini-css-extract-plugin will attach given attributes with their values on <link> element.

webpack.config.js

const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require("mini-css-extract-plugin");

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    new MiniCssExtractPlugin({
      attributes: {
        id: "target",
        "data-target": "example",
      },
    }),
  ],
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.css$/i,
        use: [MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader, "css-loader"],
      },
    ],
  },
};

[!NOTE]

It's only applied to dynamically loaded CSS chunks. If you want to modify <link> attributes inside HTML file, please use html-webpack-plugin

linkType

Type:

type linkType = string | boolean;

Default: text/css

This option allows loading asynchronous chunks with a custom link type, such as <link type="text/css" ...>.

string

Possible values: text/css

webpack.config.js

const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require("mini-css-extract-plugin");

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    new MiniCssExtractPlugin({
      linkType: "text/css",
    }),
  ],
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.css$/i,
        use: [MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader, "css-loader"],
      },
    ],
  },
};

boolean

false disables the link type attribute entirely.

webpack.config.js

const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require("mini-css-extract-plugin");

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    new MiniCssExtractPlugin({
      linkType: false,
    }),
  ],
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.css$/i,
        use: [MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader, "css-loader"],
      },
    ],
  },
};

runtime

Type:

type runtime = boolean;

Default: true

Allows to enable/disable the runtime generation. CSS will be still extracted and can be used for a custom loading methods. For example, you can use assets-webpack-plugin to retrieve them then use your own runtime code to download assets when needed.

false to skip.

webpack.config.js

const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require("mini-css-extract-plugin");

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    new MiniCssExtractPlugin({
      runtime: false,
    }),
  ],
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.css$/i,
        use: [MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader, "css-loader"],
      },
    ],
  },
};

experimentalUseImportModule

Type:

type experimentalUseImportModule = boolean;

Default: undefined

Enabled by default if not explicitly enabled (i.e. true and false allow you to explicitly control this option) and new API is available (at least webpack 5.52.0 is required). Boolean values are available since version 5.33.2, but you need to enable experiments.executeModule (not required from webpack 5.52.0).

Use a new webpack API to execute modules instead of child compilers, significantly improving performance and memory usage.

When combined with experiments.layers, this adds a layer option to the loader options to specify the layer of the CSS execution.

webpack.config.js

const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require("mini-css-extract-plugin");

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    new MiniCssExtractPlugin({
      // You don't need this for `>= 5.52.0` due to the fact that this is enabled by default
      // Required only for `>= 5.33.2 & <= 5.52.0`
      // Not available/unsafe for `<= 5.33.2`
      experimentalUseImportModule: true,
    }),
  ],
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.css$/i,
        use: [MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader, "css-loader"],
      },
    ],
  },
};

Loader Options

• publicPath
• emit
• esModule
• defaultExport

publicPath

Type:

type publicPath =
  | string
  | ((resourcePath: string, rootContext: string) => string);

Default: the publicPath in webpackOptions.output

Specifies a custom public path for the external resources like images, files, etc inside CSS. Works like output.publicPath

string

webpack.config.js

…

function

webpack.config.js

…

emit

Type:

type emit = boolean;

Default: true

If true, emits a file (writes a file to the filesystem). If false, the plugin will extract the CSS but will not emit the file. It is often useful to disable this option for server-side packages.

esModule

Type:

type esModule = boolean;

Default: true

By default, mini-css-extract-plugin generates JS modules that use the ES modules syntax. There are some cases in which using ES modules is beneficial, like in the case of module concatenation and tree shaking.

You can enable a CommonJS syntax using:

webpack.config.js

const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require("mini-css-extract-plugin");

module.exports = {
  plugins: [new MiniCssExtractPlugin()],
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.css$/i,
        use: [
          {
            loader: MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader,
            options: {
              esModule: false,
            },
          },
          "css-loader",
        ],
      },
    ],
  },
};

defaultExport

Type:

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