Add @reference "…" (#15565)

This PR adds a new `@reference "…"` API as an replacement for the
previously added [`@import "…"
reference`](#15228). The
motivation for a distinct at rule is that `@import` is already handled
outside of Tailwind in some scenarios (e.g. when using in combination
with postcss-import, other pre-processors, or frameworks like Svelte).
While our implementation of hijacking the `media` attribute _works in
this cases_, it can cause annoying linter issues because tooling build
around `@import` does not know about our behavior.

To fix this, we've decided to move this mode into a separate at rule
that is passed-through in the other tooling. Here's an example of how
this would look like in Svelte:

```svelte
<h1>Hello world!</h1>

<style>
  @reference './theme.css';
  h1 {
    color: var(--theme-color);
  }
</style>
```

With this change, the Svelte linter would not be detecting unused CSS
from the `theme.css` file as it would if we'd rely on `@import`.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Added
 
 - Add `@tailwindcss/browser` package to run Tailwind CSS in the browser ([#15558](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/15558))
+- Add `@reference "…"` API as a replacement for the previous `@import "…" reference` option ([#15565](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/15565))
 
 ### Fixed
 

packages/tailwindcss/src/at-import.test.ts

@@ -553,3 +553,36 @@ test('it crashes when inside a cycle', async () => {
     `[Error: Exceeded maximum recursion depth while resolving \`foo.css\` in \`/root\`)]`,
   )
 })
+
+test('resolves @reference as `@import "…" reference`', async () => {
+  let loadStylesheet = async (id: string, base: string) => {
+    expect(base).toBe('/root')
+    expect(id).toBe('./foo/bar.css')
+    return {
+      content: css`
+        @theme {
+          --color-red-500: red;
+        }
+        .foo {
+          color: red;
+        }
+      `,
+      base: '/root/foo',
+    }
+  }
+
+  await expect(
+    run(
+      css`
+        @reference './foo/bar.css';
+        @tailwind utilities;
+      `,
+      { loadStylesheet, candidates: ['text-red-500'] },
+    ),
+  ).resolves.toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    ".text-red-500 {
+      color: var(--color-red-500);
+    }
+    "
+  `)
+})

packages/tailwindcss/src/at-import.ts

@@ -15,9 +15,12 @@ export async function substituteAtImports(
   let promises: Promise<void>[] = []
 
   walk(ast, (node, { replaceWith }) => {
-    if (node.kind === 'at-rule' && node.name === '@import') {
+    if (node.kind === 'at-rule' && (node.name === '@import' || node.name === '@reference')) {
       let parsed = parseImportParams(ValueParser.parse(node.params))
       if (parsed === null) return
+      if (node.name === '@reference') {
+        parsed.media = 'reference'
+      }
 
       features |= Features.AtImport