axis-css

Axis CSS

Axis is a terse, feature-rich css library built on top of stylus. It's a child of the roots build system, but is totally old enough to live on it's own. It can be integrated as a plugin for stylus or included manually.

Detailed documentation for axis can be found here!

Usage

Axis is already integrated into roots by default, and it's super easy to use it there. Definitely the easiest way if you are setting up a project that uses stylus anyway, and it comes with jade and coffeescript ready out of the box as well. However, if you do want to include manually in your own pipeline, here's how to make it happen with connect (or express):

var connect = require('connect')
  , stylus = require('stylus')
  , axis = require('axis-css');
 
var server = connect();
 
function compile(str, path) {
  return stylus(str)
    .set('filename', path)
    .use(axis());
}
 
server.use(stylus.middleware({
    src: __dirname
  , compile: compile
}));

By default, axis' mixins will be included automatically into all parsed stylesheets when included as above. If you'd like to import axis manually in stylus when you want to use it, you can pass { implicit: false } to the axis call, as such:

function compile(str, path) {
  return stylus(str)
    .set('filename', path)
    .use(axis({implicit: false}));
}

If you do it this way, you'll need to @import axis manually wherever you'd like access to the mixins, as such:

@import 'axis'
 
normalize()
base()
...etc...

License (MIT)

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