I'm using Vue2 and laravel-mix and I want to have my variables accessible globally. I eventually found this:
mix.webpackConfig({
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.scss$/,
use: [
{
loader: 'sass-loader',
options: {
//this might be "data" or "prependData" depening on your version
additionalData: `@import "./resources/js/styles/variables.scss";`
}
}
]
}
]
}
})
This does make my variables globally accessible, but essentially copies the variables.scss into every single vue component, which massively bloats my bundle size.
How can I prevent this?
Edit: This only is an issue, when the imported file is relatively big. In my project, the imported file itsself imported a theme scss (to get access to the themes variables), which ultimately copied this whole thing everywhere I needed the variables.
I fixed this by defining my custom variables in a seperate file and using those variables in the "overwriting-variables" file, something like this:
custom-variables.scss
$red: #ff0000;
overwriting-variables.scss
import 'theme.scss'; //this bloated my project
import 'custom-variables';
$--theme-red: $red
And when I needed this theme color in my vue components I just imported the custom-variables.scss instead of overwriting-variables.scss.
This does fix my bloating issue, but doesn't fully solve the problem, I still have multiple instances of the custom-variables.scss in my project, it just doesn't matter because its really small. So I'd be still happy to hear about other solutions!