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MIT License | MIT License |
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cssnano
- Cssnano: A modular minifier, built on top of the PostCSS ecosystem
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List of awesome CSS frameworks, libraries and software
cssnano/cssnano - A modular minifier, built on top of the PostCSS ecosystem.
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Why don’t we talk about minifying CSS anymore?
There are a number of tools available to minify CSS in development or as part of your build pipeline including, but not limited to, cssnano and Vite. If you’re using sass, it’s as straightforward as adding --style=compressed to your sass command. The results you achieve may vary depending on the complexity of your CSS, but you may see numbers similar to this (processed with sass):
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Beyond the Basics: Exploring TailwindCSS and Linaria in Next.js - From Installation to Performance Optimization
Since Tailwind is a PostCSS plugin, we can also add cssnano plugin to compress the bundle.
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Maximize Web Performance with CSS Optimization Techniques
Minifying your CSS involves removing unnecessary whitespace, comments, and reducing property names. This results in smaller file sizes and faster downloads. Use tools like UglifyCSS and CSSNano for this purpose.
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Classic Themes with Block Patterns in WordPress
For the sake of simplicity, my example setup uses a single-file plugin and puts all styles directly into a single style.css file without using further theme.css or theme.json files, which we might want to use depending on the requirements for customizability. Likewise, SASS / SCSS support can be added if it makes life easier for the developer(s) involved. But as we already use PostCSS to control autoprefixing and cssnano minification, we can also use it to support the latest and even upcoming CSS sytax like native CSS nesting.
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How to auto-prefix and minify CSS?
The cssnano plugin can minify/compress CSS and make it suitable for production use. Install cssnano plugin using this command:
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Thanks to Sveltekit, this site - with a lot of images - scores high on Lighthouse.
CSS minification by cssnano
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Styling Remix using Tailwind and PostCSS
cssnano
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How to integrate postcss and webpack
cssnano is used to ensure that the final result is as small as possible for a production environment.
purgecss
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Optimize CSS with SAT Solving
As a starting point, Tailwind used to use PurgeCSS [0] but I'm not sure what they use now.
[0] https://purgecss.com
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How to load critical styles for a NextJs app
A similar question was already posted here but, I think looking at the raw html, we will be able to better determine the required css than what Purgecss does.
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Frontend development roadmap
PurgeCss
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How to speed up your web application
Webpack minifies JS and CSS files by default when we build them in production mode. But it does not remove useless styles or classes. For this, you can use libraries like https://purgecss.com/ Do not forget to check the dependency, connect only the functionality that you use.
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Removing unused CSS in a Django template-based project
When I searched online I couldn't find an "industry standard" solution to this problem. What I ended up doing was using the popular tool PurgeCSS along with a quick Python script to generate the appropriate command. What the PurgeCSS tool does is search for all your HTML files, gather all the CSS classes used, and then "purge" all the unused ones from the CSS file. You just need to declare all the HTML files you have.
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23 of the best Eleventy Themes (Starters) for 2023
Skeleventy gives you a rock-solid foundation to build fast and accessible static websites, with clean, understated design. Features include a minimal build pipeline with Laravel Mix, the Sass-powered utility class generator Gorko, Purge CSS, an HTML minifier, SEO-friendly page metadata, image lazy loading, responsive navigation, and an XML sitemap.
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Reduce unused CSS / JS from a Django App
You could look into using PurgeCSS and its cli?
- Eliminating unused selectors from Sass
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Workplaces for digital nomads: the frontend
Unable to get rid of unused styles. Importing components individually and setting styles in SASS can greatly simplify builds, but several common unused styles can't be deleted using PurgeCSS and analogues due to dynamic class names.
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Does My Website Look Big in This? Six Tips to Lower your Page Weight
If you’re hand-crafting your CSS, using only the exact classes you need, you’ll still probably find that your CSS file size grows as your site does. But it doesn’t need to grow too much — you can remove unused classes with tools like Purge CSS .
What are some alternatives?
Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
vue-vite-starter-template - A single page app Vite starter template, created to easily bootstrap Vue.js 2 apps
PostCSS - Transforming styles with JS plugins
twind - The smallest, fastest, most feature complete Tailwind-in-JS solution in existence.
esbuild-loader - Webpack loader for esbuild: Speed up your build ⚡️
Sass - Sass makes CSS fun!
snarkdown - :smirk_cat: A snarky 1kb Markdown parser written in JavaScript
css-loader - CSS Loader
purifycss - Remove unused CSS. Also works with single-page apps.
stylus - Expressive, robust, feature-rich CSS language built for nodejs
twin.macro - 🦹♂️ Twin blends the magic of Tailwind with the flexibility of css-in-js (emotion, styled-components, solid-styled-components, stitches and goober) at build time.