# Base Styles
Base SCSS utilities and variables for WordPress.
## Installation
Install the module
```bash
npm install @wordpress/base-styles --save-dev
```
## Use
### SCSS utilities and variables
In your application's SCSS file, include styles like so:
```scss
@import 'node_modules/@wordpress/base-styles/colors';
@import 'node_modules/@wordpress/base-styles/variables';
@import 'node_modules/@wordpress/base-styles/mixins';
@import 'node_modules/@wordpress/base-styles/breakpoints';
@import 'node_modules/@wordpress/base-styles/animations';
@import 'node_modules/@wordpress/base-styles/z-index';
@import 'node_modules/@wordpress/base-styles/default-custom-properties';
```
If you use [Webpack](https://webpack.js.org/) for your SCSS pipeline, you can use `~` to resolve to `node_modules`:
```scss
@import '~@wordpress/base-styles/colors';
```
To make that work with [`sass`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sass) or [`node-sass`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-sass) NPM modules without Webpack, you'd have to use [includePaths option](https://sass-lang.com/documentation/js-api#includepaths):
```json
{
"includePaths": [ "node_modules" ]
}
```
## Contributing to this package
This is an individual package that's part of the Gutenberg project. The project is organized as a monorepo. It's made up of multiple self-contained software packages, each with a specific purpose. The packages in this monorepo are published to [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/) and used by [WordPress](https://make.wordpress.org/core/) as well as other software projects.
To find out more about contributing to this package or Gutenberg as a whole, please read the project's main [contributor guide](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/tree/HEAD/CONTRIBUTING.md).
