# postcss-media-query-parser | |
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Media query parser with very simple traversing functionality. | |
## Installation and usage | |
First install it via NPM: | |
``` | |
npm install postcss-media-query-parser | |
``` | |
Then in your Node.js application: | |
```js | |
import mediaParser from "postcss-media-query-parser"; | |
const mediaQueryString = "(max-width: 100px), not print"; | |
const result = mediaParser(mediaQueryString); | |
``` | |
The `result` will be this object: | |
```js | |
{ | |
type: 'media-query-list', | |
value: '(max-width: 100px), not print', | |
after: '', | |
before: '', | |
sourceIndex: 0, | |
// the first media query | |
nodes: [{ | |
type: 'media-query', | |
value: '(max-width: 100px)', | |
before: '', | |
after: '', | |
sourceIndex: 0, | |
parent: <link to parent 'media-query-list' node>, | |
nodes: [{ | |
type: 'media-feature-expression', | |
value: '(max-width: 100px)', | |
before: '', | |
after: '', | |
sourceIndex: 0, | |
parent: <link to parent 'media-query' node>, | |
nodes: [{ | |
type: 'media-feature', | |
value: 'max-width', | |
before: '', | |
after: '', | |
sourceIndex: 1, | |
parent: <link to parent 'media-feature-expression' node>, | |
}, { | |
type: 'colon', | |
value: ':', | |
before: '', | |
after: ' ', | |
sourceIndex: 10, | |
parent: <link to parent 'media-feature-expression' node>, | |
}, { | |
type: 'value', | |
value: '100px', | |
before: ' ', | |
after: '', | |
sourceIndex: 12, | |
parent: <link to parent 'media-feature-expression' node>, | |
}] | |
}] | |
}, | |
// the second media query | |
{ | |
type: 'media-query', | |
value: 'not print', | |
before: ' ', | |
after: '', | |
sourceIndex: 20, | |
parent: <link to parent 'media-query-list' node>, | |
nodes: [{ | |
type: 'keyword', | |
value: 'not', | |
before: ' ', | |
after: ' ', | |
sourceIndex: 20, | |
parent: <link to parent 'media-query' node>, | |
}, { | |
type: 'media-type', | |
value: 'print', | |
before: ' ', | |
after: '', | |
sourceIndex: 24, | |
parent: <link to parent 'media-query' node>, | |
}] | |
}] | |
} | |
``` | |
One of the likely sources of a string to parse would be traversing [a PostCSS container node](http://api.postcss.org/Root.html) and getting the `params` property of nodes with the name of "atRule": | |
```js | |
import postcss from "postcss"; | |
import mediaParser from "postcss-media-query-parser"; | |
const root = postcss.parse(<contents>); | |
// ... or any other way to get sucn container | |
root.walkAtRules("media", (atRule) => { | |
const mediaParsed = mediaParser(atRule.params); | |
// Do something with "mediaParsed" object | |
}); | |
``` | |
## Nodes | |
Node is a very generic item in terms of this parser. It's is pretty much everything that ends up in the parsed result. Each node has these properties: | |
* `type`: the type of the node (see below); | |
* `value`: the node's value stripped of trailing whitespaces; | |
* `sourceIndex`: 0-based index of the node start relative to the source start (excluding trailing whitespaces); | |
* `before`: a string that contain a whitespace between the node start and the previous node end/source start; | |
* `after`: a string that contain a whitespace between the node end and the next node start/source end; | |
* `parent`: a link to this node's parent node (a container). | |
A node can have one of these types (according to [the 2012 CSS3 standard](https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-css3-mediaqueries-20120619/)): | |
* `media-query-list`: that is the root level node of the parsing result. A [container](#containers); its children can have types of `url` and `media-query`. | |
* `url`: if a source is taken from a CSS `@import` rule, it will have a `url(...)` function call. The value of such node will be `url(http://uri-address)`, it is to be parsed separately. | |
* `media-query`: such nodes correspond to each media query in a comma separated list. In the exapmle above there are two. Nodes of this type are [containers](#containers). | |
* `media-type`: `screen`, `tv` and other media types. | |
* `keyword`: `only`, `not` or `and` keyword. | |
* `media-feature-expression`: an expression in parentheses that checks for a condition of a particular media feature. The value would be like this: `(max-width: 1000px)`. Such nodes are [containers](#containers). They always have a `media-feature` child node, but might not have a `value` child node (like in `screen and (color)`). | |
* `media-feature`: a media feature, e.g. `max-width`. | |
* `colon`: present if a media feature expression has a colon (e.g. `(min-width: 1000px)`, compared to `(color)`). | |
* `value`: a media feature expression value, e.g. `100px` in `(max-width: 1000px)`. | |
### Parsing details | |
postcss-media-query-parser allows for cases of some **non-standard syntaxes** and tries its best to work them around. For example, in a media query from a code with SCSS syntax: | |
```scss | |
@media #{$media-type} and ( #{"max-width" + ": 10px"} ) { ... } | |
``` | |
`#{$media-type}` will be the node of type `media-type`, alghough `$media-type`'s value can be `only screen`. And inside `media-feature-expression` there will only be a `media-feature` type node with the value of `#{"max-width" + ": 10px"}` (this example doesn't make much sense, it's for demo purpose). | |
But the result of parsing **malformed media queries** (such as with incorrect amount of closing parens, curly braces, etc.) can be unexpected. For exapmle, parsing: | |
```scss | |
@media ((min-width: -100px) | |
``` | |
would return a media query list with the single `media-query` node that has no child nodes. | |
## Containers | |
Containers are [nodes](#nodes) that have other nodes as children. Container nodes have an additional property `nodes` which is an array of their child nodes. And also these methods: | |
* `each(callback)` - traverses the direct child nodes of a container, calling `callback` function for each of them. Returns `false` if traversing has stopped by means of `callback` returning `false`, and `true` otherwise. | |
* `walk([filter, ]callback)` - traverses ALL descendant nodes of a container, calling `callback` function for each of them. Returns `false` if traversing has stopped by means of `callback` returning `false`, and `true` otherwise. | |
In both cases `callback` takes these parameters: | |
- `node` - the current node (one of the container's descendats, that the callback has been called against). | |
- `i` - 0-based index of the `node` in an array of its parent's children. | |
- `nodes` - array of child nodes of `node`'s parent. | |
If `callback` returns `false`, the traversing stops. | |
## License | |
MIT |