Hugo: Use local installation of Postcss-cli

[carlmjohnson]

To use the new postCSS resource feature in Hugo 0.43, you must have postcss-cli installed on your path. However, ideally, it should be enough to install it into node_modules/.bin/. That way your project can document all its requirements in a project specific package.json and not need a separate global install. It also eases dealing with multiple projects with different versions of postcss-cli in use.

[numbfall]

Local install of postcss-cli is still not working. I get the following error unless I install postcss-cli globally.

Building sites … ERROR 2018/08/05 17:46:48 error: failed to transform resource: POSTCSS: failed to transform "css/tachyons.css" (text/css): this feature is not available in your current Hugo version

I have postcss in my node_modules/.bin/ and node_modules/postcss-cli/bin/

This is my html

{{ $style := resources.Get "css/tachyons.css" | resources.PostCSS }}

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[tech4him1]

@numbfall Please be sure you are using Hugo v0.45 or newer -- that was when the fix was added.

[TheBaronHimself]

I think it would be useful to have this functionality for themes, too. I.e. Hugo using postcss-cli and any plugins contained in themes/sometheme/node_modules/.bin. This way a theme's dependencies could be installed more easily. Or am I being silly?

[onedrawingperday]

@TheBaronHimself

We had this discussion. See https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoThemes/issues/396

In short theme authors should commit the /resources directory so that a theme can be used by someone who is on the Hugo basic version.

[TheBaronHimself]

@onedrawingperday

That makes lots of sense, actually. Thanks.

[inwardmovement]

Local postcss-cli seems to work on Mac, but doesn't on Windows. Can we reopen?