cssnano
A modular minifier, built on top of the PostCSS ecosystem. (by cssnano)
less.js
Less. The dynamic stylesheet language. (by less)
cssnano | less.js | |
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16 | 41 | |
4,629 | 16,997 | |
0.4% | 0.1% | |
9.0 | 4.0 | |
7 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
CSS | JavaScript | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
cssnano
Posts with mentions or reviews of cssnano.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-25.
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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.
- Buenas practicas en CSS
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Source Maps
There are plenty of free plugins are available to optimize styles, scripts and create source maps for them. Optimize styles Optimize Scripts Create Sourcemaps
less.js
Posts with mentions or reviews of less.js.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-25.
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Creating Nx Workspace with Eslint, Prettier and Husky Configuration
LESS [ https://lesscss.org ]
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Future of CSS: Functions and Mixins
Traditionally CSS lacked features such as variables, nesting, mixins, and functions. This was frustrating for Developers as it often led to CSS quickly becoming complex and cumbersome. In an attempt to make code easier and less repetitive CSS pre-processors were born. You would write CSS in the format the pre-processor understood and, at build time, you'd have some nice CSS. The most common pre-processors these days are Sass, Less, and Stylus. Any examples I give going forward will be about Sass as that's what I'm most familiar with.
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Modern CSS for 2024: Nesting, Layers, and Container Queries
In the past, you’d need to rely on pre-processors such as SaSS or Less, but not anymore… Native CSS nesting has landed on all major modern browsers.
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Maximize Web Performance with CSS Optimization Techniques
Consider using CSS preprocessors like Sass or Less not only for better code organization but also for potential performance improvements.
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An Overview of 25+ UI Component Libraries in 2023
Extensions of CSS: for example, Sass, Less, Tailwind, CSS Modules, to make stuff look a certain way on your own.
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Let's Make Learning Frontend Great Again!
LiveCodes provides many of the commonly used developer tools. These include Monaco editor (that powers VS Code), Prettier, Emmet, Vim/Emacs modes, Babel, TypeScript, SCSS, Less, PostCSS, Jest and Testing Library, among others. All these tools run seamlessly in the browser without any installations or configurations. It feels like a very light-weight version of your own local development environment including the keyboard shortcuts, IntelliSense and code navigation features.
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Why Use Sass?
LESS
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CSS: The Good Parts
The CSS Working Group had been aware of the need for CSS variables since its inception in 1997. By the late 2000s, developers had created various workarounds like custom PHP scripts and preprocessors like Less and Sass to compensate for this deficiency.
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GPT-4 is becoming too real.
He could do with LESS
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Vanilla+PostCSS as an Alternative to SCSS
While we may disagree whether Sass is still relevant today, Mayank's case for using Sass in 2022 sums up the many use cases for Sass/SCSS including a timeline from 2006 (Sass) to "2022+" (nesting). Nesting CSS used to one of the few good reasons left to choose Sass, SCSS (or less) in a new web project.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cssnano and less.js you can also consider the following projects:
purgecss - Remove unused CSS
JSS - JSS is an authoring tool for CSS which uses JavaScript as a host language.
Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
PostCSS - Transforming styles with JS plugins
Sass - Sass makes CSS fun!
twind - The smallest, fastest, most feature complete Tailwind-in-JS solution in existence.
Senpwai - A desktop app for tracking and batch downloading anime
css-loader - CSS Loader
css-modules - Documentation about css-modules