clean-css VS babili

Minification involves removing unnecessary characters, whitespace, and comments from code files. It helps reduce HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc., file sizes without compromising functionality. Removing redundant elements makes these HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files smaller. Since smaller code files need less internet traffic to transfer, they load faster. Utilizing tools like UglifyJS, Clean-CSS, and HTMLMinifier enhances this process of code reduction. They analyze the code, remove redundant code, and generate optimized files for deployment.

By setting minifyCSS and minifyJS to true, the CSS will be minified together using clean-css and the JS will be minified together using UglifyJS to minify the JS together. Also, the other side of gatsby-plugin-minify is just multiplying html-minifier by postbuild in gatsby-node.js. You can set detailed options in html-minifier.

Depending on whether set to true or false (or not included as the default value is false), the last two options, --minify-js and --minify-css will minify the corresponding source of their type, only if included as inline style or script tags in the html being minified. It may also be good to know that the html-minifier options information states that clean-css and uglify-js are used for the minification when these options are included.

The key is that the scoping happens for each iteration, not around the entire loop. That detail is nonobvious, given how many other languages have gotten it wrong, but I wouldn’t say it’s wild.

(If you’re curious how Babel deals with the more complicated cases of continue, break, labelled break, and return, try it out at https://babeljs.io/repl.)

I used https://babeljs.io/repl to know the size after the code has been transpiled.

You must have a basic understanding of JavaScript and be familiar with some of the features of ES6, the most recent version of JavaScript, to follow this tutorial. More information is available here if you’re unfamiliar with ES6. If you are more familiar with the older version of JavaScript, you might find the babel REPL more helpful to see how ES6 code is translated.

The JSX code is far easy to understand, but React, ReactDOM, or browser does not understand it. Babel comes into picture to translate JSX code to equivalent React code.

If we copy and paste the code in a Babel repl editor, we will get the equivalent React elements that we used earlier:

In your node project, add Babel and Webpack. They can “transpile “ your JSX code to browser compatible code. You can try it out here

If your project uses a bundler like webpack or rollup, then you can use the nullish coalescing operator in your code. But if you are using a browser, then you should use a transpiler like babel to transpile your code to ES5. You can use babel repl to transpile your code.

The Babel REPL is an easy way to see what the transpiled output looks like.

babel has an online playground