You can use stylelint on the command line. For example:
npx stylelint "**/*.css"
Use npx stylelint --help
to print the CLI documentation.
In addition to the standard options, the CLI accepts:
--allow-empty-input, --aei
The process exits without throwing an error when glob pattern matches no files.
--cache-location
Path to a file or directory for the cache location. More info about this option in standard options.
--cache
Store the results of processed files so that stylelint only operates on the changed ones. By default, the cache is stored in ./.stylelintcache
in process.cwd()
. More info about this option in standard options.
--color, --no-color
Force enabling/disabling of color.
--config-basedir
Absolute path to the directory that relative paths defining “extends” and “plugins” are relative to. Only necessary if these values are relative paths. More info about this option in standard options.
--config
Path to a JSON, YAML, or JS file that contains your configuration object. More info about this option in standard options.
--custom-syntax
Specify a custom syntax to use on your code. Use this option if you want to force a specific syntax that’s not already built into stylelint. More info about this option in standard options.
--disable-default-ignores, --di
Disable the default ignores. stylelint will not automatically ignore the contents of node_modules
. More info about this option in standard options.
--fix
Automatically fix, where possible, violations reported by rules. More info about this option in standard options.
--formatter, -f
| --custom-formatter
Specify the formatter to format your results. More info about this option in standard options.
--ignore-disables, --id
Ignore styleline-disable
(e.g. /* stylelint-disable block-no-empty */
) comments. More info about this option in standard options.
--ignore-path, -i
A path to a file containing patterns describing files to ignore. The path can be absolute or relative to process.cwd()
. By default, stylelint looks for .stylelintignore
in process.cwd()
. More info about this option in standard options.
--ignore-pattern, --ip
Pattern of files to ignore (in addition to those in .stylelintignore
).
--max-warnings, --mw
Set a limit to the number of warnings accepted. More info about this option in standard options.
--output-file, -o
Path of file to write a report. stylelint outputs the report to the specified filename
in addition to the standard output.
--print-config
Print the configuration for the given path. stylelint outputs the configuration used for the file passed.
--quiet, -q
Only register violations for rules with an “error”-level severity (ignore “warning”-level).
--report-descriptionless-disables, --rdd
Produce a report of the stylelint-disable
comments without a description. More info about this option in standard options.
--report-invalid-scope-disables, --risd
Produce a report of the stylelint-disable
comments that used for rules that don’t exist within the configuration object. More info about this option in standard options.
--report-needless-disables, --rd
Produce a report to clean up your codebase, keeping only the stylelint-disable
comments that serve a purpose. More info about this option in standard options.
--stdin-filename
A filename to assign the input. More info about this option in standard options.
--stdin
Accept stdin input even if it is empty.
--syntax, -s
Specify a syntax. More info about this option in standard options.
--version, -v
Show the currently installed version of stylelint.
The CLI expects input as either a file glob or process.stdin
. It outputs formatted results into process.stdout
.
Be sure to include quotation marks around file globs.
Recursively linting all .css
files in the foo
directory:
stylelint "foo/**/*.css"
Linting all .css
, .scss
, and .sass
files:
stylelint "**/*.{css,scss,sass}"
Linting stdin
:
echo "a { color: pink; }" | stylelint
Linting all .css
files except those within docker
subfolders, using negation in the input glob:
stylelint "**/*.css" "!**/docker/**"
Caching processed .scss
files foo
directory:
stylelint "foo/**/*.scss" --cache --cache-location "/Users/user/.stylelintcache/"
Linting all .css
files in the foo
directory, then writing the output to myTestReport.txt
:
stylelint "foo/*.css" --output-file myTestReport.txt
Using bar/mySpecialConfig.json
as config to lint all .css
files in the foo
directory and any of its subdirectories:
stylelint "foo/**/*.css" --config bar/mySpecialConfig.json
Recursively linting all .css
files in the foo
directory using a custom syntax:
stylelint "foo/**/*.css" --customSyntax path/to/my-custom-syntax.js
Ensure output on successful runs:
stylelint -f verbose "foo/**/*.css"
The CLI can exit the process with the following exit codes:
1
- something unknown went wrong2
- there was at least one rule violation or CLI flag error78
- there was some problem with the configuration file