PostCSS warning when Panda rules are not injected

[Julien-R44]

Description

going to explain the problem I met while trying to configure Panda :

in fact, i followed the guide for installing panda and, without noticing, when I copied and pasted the .css file, I removed the s in recipes.

@layer reset, base, tokens, recipe, utilities;

and as a result, no panda style was injected. And being new to Panda, i couldn't spot the problem. spent 2 hours trying to debug a bug that didn't exist in my node modules 😅

so I'm wondering if it wouldn't be possible to have a warning in console when the postcss plugin can't find a file to process and therefore style to inject

Problem Statement/Justification

quickly understand why Panda is not working

Proposed Solution or API

not knowing the Postcss plugin API at all, i initially wanted to do something like this:

i think you get the idea:

• process all files
• we keep a true/false flag to know if we've found the right place to inject the Panda rules
• and at the end of processing, if we haven't found anything, we display a warning to the user

but after analyzing the Postcss API, i realized that this wasn't possible. and that there doesn't seem to be an alternative API for this due to the way PostCSS works: postcss/postcss-reporter#60

Alternatives

No response

Additional Information

so, I open this issue for discussion and ask :

• do you see a way to do this?
• or maybe we could have an alternative solution?

or maybe we should just consider that it's not possible and we can close the issue
especially since it's a problem that's probably quite rare : i've had bad luck, but i've wasted so much time with this that i wanted to suggest a solution for future people who might have the same problem

so yeah, i wanted to get your opinion before dropping the idea

if an alternative is possible and wanted, happy to work on it and open a PR