# CSS Module Loader Core > A loader-agnostic CSS Modules implementation, based on PostCSS [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/css-modules/css-modules-loader-core.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/css-modules/css-modules-loader-core) ## API ```js import Core from 'css-modules-loader-core' let core = new Core() ``` ### core.load( sourceString , sourcePath , pathFetcher ) =>
  Promise({ injectableSource, exportTokens }) Processes the input CSS `sourceString`, looking for dependencies such as `@import` or `:import`. Any localisation will happen by prefixing a sanitised version of `sourcePath` When dependencies are found, it will ask the `pathFetcher` for each dependency, resolve & inline any imports, and return the following object: - `injectableSource`: the final, merged CSS file without `@import` or `:import` statements - `exportTokens`: the mapping from local name to scoped name, as described in the file's `:export` block These should map nicely to what your build-tool-specific loader needs to do its job. ### new Core([plugins]) The default set of plugins is [[postcss-modules-local-by-default](https://github.com/css-modules/postcss-modules-local-by-default), [postcss-modules-extract-imports](https://github.com/css-modules/postcss-modules-extract-imports), [postcss-modules-scope](https://github.com/css-modules/postcss-modules-scope)] (i.e. the CSS Modules specification). This can override which PostCSS plugins you wish to execute, e.g. ```js import Core from 'css-loader-core' import autoprefixer from 'autoprefixer' import colorFunctions from 'postcss-color-function' // Don't run local-by-default, but use colorFunctions // beforehand and autoprefixer afterwards: let core = new Core([ colorFunctions, core.plugins.extractImports, core.plugins.scope, autoprefixer("Last 2 Versions") ]) ```