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Use extensible Sass files to generate the stylesheets for your website.

Hinode uses Sass files to take advantage of variables, maps, and functions to generate the cascading style sheets of the website. By utilizing Hugo modules, Bootstrap’s source Sass file are automatically ingested and kept up to date.

Build pipeline

Note

Hinode has added support for the Dart Sass transpiler in release v0.20.0 . The default libsass transpiler has been deprecated in favor of Dart Sass , but is still widely used. Hinode uses the libsass transpiler by default. Review the build configuration on how to change the transpiler being used.

Hinodes uses Hugo modules and mounted folders to create a flexible virtual file system that is automatically kept up to date. Review the overview for a detailed explanation. The build pipeline of the stylesheet consists of six steps.

Initialize the Sass variables

Hugo v0.109.0 introduced a convenient way to initialize Sass variables from your templates . Hinode initializes several variables in the file layouts/partials/head/stylesheet.html. For example, the primary theme color is available as $primary.
Define the Sass entrypoint

The main entrypoint for the Sass files is defined in assets/scss/app.scss. It supports Hugo templating. For example, the snippet below conditionally imports font face definitions when using a local font path.
```
{{ if (not (hasPrefix (lower site.Params.style.themeFontPath) "http")) }}
   @import "theme/fonts.scss";
{{ end }}
```
Import the Sass files of core modules

Hinode automatically adds the content of each core module’s Sass entrypoint to a virtual copy of the assets/scss/app.scss file, unless they are referenced in the excludeSCSS setting. Hinode expects a file assets/scss/{MODULE NAME}.scss for each core module. The referenced files are usually placed in assets/scss/modules/{MODULE NAME}/.
Override and expand the Sass configuration

The import order of the source files defines which variables and functions to use. In Sass, the first definition of a variable or function takes precedence. For example, to override the setting for the variable $primary, it needs to be defined prior to Bootstrap’s definition in _variables.scss.
Transpile the Sass files

The partial partials/head/stylesheet.html reads the application entrypoint, configures the node_modules folder as import path, and transpiles the stylesheet into a single file main.css. In production mode, the output is minified and linked to with a fingerprint .
Link to the stylesheet in the base layout

Hinode’s base layout layouts/_default/baseof.html imports the generated stylesheet in the header section of the webpage via the partial layouts/partials/head/head.html.

Initialize the Sass variables

Hugo v0.109.0 introduced a convenient way to initialize Sass variables from your templates . Hinode initializes several variables in the file layouts/partials/head/stylesheet.html. For example, the primary theme color is available as $primary.
Define the Sass entrypoint

The main entrypoint for the Sass files is defined in assets/scss/app-dart.scss. It supports Hugo templating.
Import the Sass files of core modules

Hinode automatically adds the content of each core module’s Sass entrypoint to a virtual copy of the assets/scss/app-dart.scss file, unless they are referenced in the excludeSCSS setting. Hinode expects a file assets/scss/{MODULE NAME}.scss for each core module. The referenced files are usually placed in assets/scss/modules/{MODULE NAME}/.
Override and expand the Sass configuration

For backwards compatibility, the various Sass files still use @import statements. In this setup, the first definition of a variable or function takes precedence. For example, to override the setting for the variable $primary, it needs to be defined prior to Bootstrap’s definition in _variables.scss.
Transpile the Sass files

The partial partials/head/stylesheet.html reads the application entrypoint, configures the node_modules folder as import path, and transpiles the stylesheet into a single file main.css. In production mode, the output is minified and linked to with a fingerprint .
Link to the stylesheet in the base layout

Hinode’s base layout layouts/_default/baseof.html imports the generated stylesheet in the header section of the webpage via the partial layouts/partials/head/head.html.

Example

The below Sass file defines a skeleton configuration for the main entrypoint. The full configuration is defined in assets/scss/app.scss (libsass) and assets/scss/app-dart.scss (dartsass) respectively.

// 1) Define template variables (linking to Hugo config)
@import "hugo:vars";

// 2) Include default variable overrides
@import "common/variables.scss";

// 3) Import Bootstrap configuration (mounted by core Bootstrap module)
@import "bootstrap.scss";

// 4) Import Hinode theme styles
@import "components/blockquote.scss";

// 5) Import custom theme fonts and styles
@import "theme/fonts.scss";
@import "theme/theme.scss";

// 6) Import Bootstrap utilities API (mounted by core Bootstrap module)
@import "modules/bootstrap/utilities/api";

// 7) Import additional modules
// Process stylesheet entrypoints for each configured module (w/o excludeSCSS)

// 1) Define template variables (linking to Hugo config)
@use "hugo:vars" as

// 2) Include default variable overrides
@import "common/variables-dart.scss";

// 3) Import Bootstrap configuration (mounted by core Bootstrap module)
@import "bootstrap-dart.scss";

// 4) Import Hinode theme styles
@import "components/blockquote.scss";

// 5) Import custom theme fonts and styles
@if h.$import-fonts {
    @include meta.load-css(theme/fonts);
}

@import "theme/theme.scss";

// 6) Import Bootstrap utilities API (mounted by core Bootstrap module)
@import "modules/bootstrap/utilities/api";

// 7) Import additional modules
// Process stylesheet entrypoints for each configured module (w/o excludeSCSS)

Optional module files

Hinode processes the Sass files that are part of an optional module one at a time. The entrypoint of each module is expected to be found in assets/scss/{MODULE NAME}.scss. The transpiled output is included on a page-by-page basis.

• Update to Hinode v0.27.13 (b6f5054)

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