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The MediaWiki SCSS library provides a ResourceLoader module capable of compiling SCSS.

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or later
• MediaWiki 1.43 or later
• Composer

Use

An SCSS module is defined much like any other style module. See the manual for $wgResourceModules. It should also be possible to add the module definition to the extension.json of a MediaWiki extension. See Developing_with_ResourceLoader

Some additional keys may be used:

• class: This is mandatory. It selects the class to be used for the module. For SCSS, the value has to be 'SCSS\\ResourceLoaderSCSSModule'

• styles: It is not an additional key, but it has extended semantics. This key contains the list of the module's style files. Each file can optionally be given a position to influence the order in which the files are compiled. Allowed values for the position are

  1. beforeFunctions
  2. functions
  3. afterFunctions
  4. beforeVariables
  5. variables
  6. afterVariables
  7. beforeMain
  8. main
  9. afterMain

  If no position is given, main will be assumed.

  All files of one module will be compiled together, i.e., variables, mixins etc., will be shared between them.

• variables: An array of variables and values to override the SCSS variables in the style files. This allows changing values (e.g., colors, fonts, margins) without having to modify the actual style files.

• cacheTriggers: Compiling SCSS is expensive, so compiled results are cached. This option lists files that, when changed, will trigger flushing of the cache and re-compiling of the style files.

  All files on this list will be checked for each web request. To minimizes the load on the file system and the time to build the page, it is not advisable to add all style files to this list.

Here is an example definition:

$wgResourceModules[ 'ext.MyExtension.styles' ] = [

	'class' => 'SCSS\\ResourceLoaderSCSSModule',
	'localBasePath' => $localBasePath,
	'remoteBasePath' => $remoteBasePath,
	'position' => 'top',

	'styles' => [
		'modules/ext.MyExtension.foo.scss' => 'main',
		'modules/ext.MyExtension.bar.scss'
	],
	'variables' => [
		'red' => '#ff0000',
		'green' => '#00ff00',
		'blue' => '#0000ff',
	],
	'cacheTriggers' => [
		'LocalSettings.php',
		'composer.lock',
	],
];

The extension uses the scssphp/scssphp compiler, which has some limitations. See the issue list.

Cache type

$egScssCacheType can be set to request a specific cache type for the compiled styles. To disable caching of SCSS styles altogether (e.g., during development), set $egScssCacheType = CACHE_NONE;. This should never be done on a production site.

Professional Support

The SCSS extension is maintained by Professional Wiki. You can contract us to help you install or customize SCSS. We also do development work.

Running the tests

The tests can only be run when the library is loaded within MediaWiki. You can add it via composer.local.json (probably using dev-master).

Inside your MediaWiki root directory

php tests/phpunit/phpunit.php -c vendor/mediawiki/scss/phpunit.xml.dist

License

You can use the SCSS extension under the GNU General Public License, version 3 (or any later version).

Release notes

Version 5.0.0

Released on 2025-12-20

• Raised minimum MediaWiki version from 1.39 to 1.43
• Raised minimum PHP version from 8.0 to 8.1
• Raised minimum scssphp version from 1.12.1 to 1.13.0
• Fixed MediaWiki 1.43 deprecations

Version 4.0.0

Released on 2024-04-25

• Raised minimum MediaWiki version from 1.35 to 1.39
• Raised minimum PHP version from 7.4.3 to 8.0
• Raised minimum scssphp version from 1.10.2 to 1.12.1
• Modernized coding standards

Version 3.0.1

Released on 2022-07-25

• Added preliminary compatibility with MediaWiki 1.39

Version 3.0.0

Released on 2022-03-30

• Raised minimum MediaWiki version from 1.27 to 1.35
• Raised minimum PHP version from 5.6 to 7.4.3
• Raised minimum scssphp version from 1.5.2 to 1.10.2

Version 2.0.8

Released on 2022-07-25

• Added preliminary compatibility with MediaWiki 1.39

Version 2.0.7

Released on 2021-05-18

• Increased minimum version of scssphp

Version 2.0.6

Released on 2021-05-15

• Temporarily limit the version of scssphp below 1.5 to avoid breaking changes

Version 2.0.5

Released on 2020-12-27

• Added compatibility with MediaWiki 1.36

Version 2.0.4

Released on 2020-09-07

• Switched to new version of scssphp

Version 2.0.3

Released on 2020-09-07

• Temporarily fixed the version of scssphp to 1.1.1 to avoid the 1.2 bug

Version 2.0

Released on 2020-04-19

• Turned MediaWiki extension into a standard PHP/Composer library
• Switched to new version of scssphp

Version 1.0

Released on 2019-04-28

• Initial release