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Resolve @import in core (#14446)
This PR brings `@import` resolution into Tailwind CSS core. This means
that our clients (PostCSS, Vite, and CLI) no longer need to depend on
`postcss` and `postcss-import` to resolve `@import`. Furthermore this
simplifies the handling of relative paths for `@source`, `@plugin`, or
`@config` in transitive CSS files (where the relative root should always
be relative to the CSS file that contains the directive). This PR also
fixes a plugin resolution bug where non-relative imports (e.g. directly
importing node modules like `@plugin '@tailwindcss/typography';`) would
not work in CSS files that are based in a different npm package.

### Resolving `@import`

The core of the `@import` resolution is inside
`packages/tailwindcss/src/at-import.ts`. There, to keep things
performant, we do a two-step process to resolve imports. Imagine the
following input CSS file:

```css
@import "tailwindcss/theme.css";
@import "tailwindcss/utilities.css";
```

Since our AST walks are synchronous, we will do a first traversal where
we start a loading request for each `@import` directive. Once all loads
are started, we will await the promise and do a second walk where we
actually replace the AST nodes with their resolved stylesheets. All of
this is recursive, so that `@import`-ed files can again `@import` other
files.

The core `@import` resolver also includes extensive test cases for
[various combinations of media query and supports conditionals as well
als layered
imports](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@import).

When the same file is imported multiple times, the AST nodes are
duplicated but duplicate I/O is avoided on a per-file basis, so this
will only load one file, but include the `@theme` rules twice:

```css
@import "tailwindcss/theme.css";
@import "tailwindcss/theme.css";
```

### Adding a new `context` node to the AST

One limitation we had when working with the `postcss-import` plugin was
the need to do an additional traversal to rewrite relative `@source`,
`@plugin`, and `@config` directives. This was needed because we want
these paths to be relative to the CSS file that defines the directive
but when flattening a CSS file, this information is no longer part of
the stringifed CSS representation. We worked around this by rewriting
the content of these directives to be relative to the input CSS file,
which resulted in added complexity and caused a lot of issues with
Windows paths in the beginning.

Now that we are doing the `@import` resolution in core, we can use a
different data structure to persist this information. This PR adds a new
`context` node so that we can store arbitrary context like this inside
the Ast directly. This allows us to share information with the sub tree
_while doing the Ast walk_.

Here's an example of how the new `context` node can be used to share
information with subtrees:

```ts
const ast = [
  rule('.foo', [decl('color', 'red')]),
  context({ value: 'a' }, [
    rule('.bar', [
      decl('color', 'blue'),
      context({ value: 'b' }, [
        rule('.baz', [decl('color', 'green')]),
      ]),
    ]),
  ]),
]

walk(ast, (node, { context }) => {
  if (node.kind !== 'declaration') return
  switch (node.value) {
    case 'red':   assert(context.value === undefined)
    case 'blue':  assert(context.value === 'a')
    case 'green': assert(context.value === 'b')
  }
})
```

In core, we use this new Ast node specifically to persist the `base`
path of the current CSS file. We put the input CSS file `base` at the
root of the Ast and then overwrite the `base` on every `@import`
substitution.

### Removing the dependency on `postcss-import`

Now that we support `@import` resolution in core, our clients no longer
need a dependency on `postcss-import`. Furthermore, most dependencies
also don't need to know about `postcss` at all anymore (except the
PostCSS client, of course!).

This also means that our workaround for rewriting `@source`, the
`postcss-fix-relative-paths` plugin, can now go away as a shared
dependency between all of our clients. Note that we still have it for
the PostCSS plugin only, where it's possible that users already have
`postcss-import` running _before_ the `@tailwindcss/postcss` plugin.

Here's an example of the changes to the dependencies for our Vite client
 :

<img width="854" alt="Screenshot 2024-09-19 at 16 59 45"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ae1f9d5f-d93a-4de9-9244-61af3aff1237">

### Performance

Since our Vite and CLI clients now no longer need to use `postcss` at
all, we have also measured a significant improvement to the initial
build times. For a small test setup that contains only a hand full of
files (nothing super-complex), we measured an improvement in the
**3.5x** range:

<img width="1334" alt="Screenshot 2024-09-19 at 14 52 49"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/06071fb0-7f2a-4de6-8ec8-f202d2cc78e5">

The code for this is in the commit history if you want to reproduce the
results. The test was based on the Vite client.

### Caveats

One thing to note is that we previously relied on finding specific
symbols in the input CSS to _bail out of Tailwind processing
completely_. E.g. if a file does not contain a `@tailwind` or `@apply`
directive, it can never be a Tailwind file.

Since we no longer have a string representation of the flattened CSS
file, we can no longer do this check. However, the current
implementation was already inconsistent with differences on the allowed
symbol list between our clients. Ideally, Tailwind CSS should figure out
wether a CSS file is a Tailwind CSS file. This, however, is left as an
improvement for a future API since it goes hand-in-hand with our planned
API changes for the core `tailwindcss` package.

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Co-authored-by: Jordan Pittman <jordan@cryptica.me>
2024-09-23 17:05:55 +02:00

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// Inlined version of `normalize-path` <https://github.com/jonschlinkert/normalize-path>
// Copyright (c) 2014-2018, Jon Schlinkert.
// Released under the MIT License.
function normalizePathBase(path: string, stripTrailing?: boolean) {
if (typeof path !== 'string') {
throw new TypeError('expected path to be a string')
}
if (path === '\\' || path === '/') return '/'
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// ensure that win32 namespaces has two leading slashes, so that the path is
// handled properly by the win32 version of path.parse() after being normalized
// https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx#namespaces
var prefix = ''
if (len > 4 && path[3] === '\\') {
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if ((ch === '?' || ch === '.') && path.slice(0, 2) === '\\\\') {
path = path.slice(2)
prefix = '//'
}
}
var segs = path.split(/[/\\]+/)
if (stripTrailing !== false && segs[segs.length - 1] === '') {
segs.pop()
}
return prefix + segs.join('/')
}
export function normalizePath(originalPath: string) {
let normalized = normalizePathBase(originalPath)
// Make sure Windows network share paths are normalized properly
// They have to begin with two slashes or they won't resolve correctly
if (
originalPath.startsWith('\\\\') &&
normalized.startsWith('/') &&
!normalized.startsWith('//')
) {
return `/${normalized}`
}
return normalized
}