cssnano VS lit-element

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):

Since Tailwind is a PostCSS plugin, we can also add cssnano plugin to compress the bundle.

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.

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.

The cssnano plugin can minify/compress CSS and make it suitable for production use. Install cssnano plugin using this command:

CSS minification by cssnano

cssnano

cssnano is used to ensure that the final result is as small as possible for a production environment.

There are plenty of free plugins are available to optimize styles, scripts and create source maps for them. Optimize styles Optimize Scripts Create Sourcemaps

Using vanilla JS or TS or using web components and want to have a framework-independent way of doing things? You can stick to the GraphQL codegen itself since it takes care of almost everything underneath. Or if you want, you can also use Apollo Client’s vanilla version @apollo/client/core. Apollo Elements does come with support for a lot of webcomponent libraries like Lit, Fast and Gluon or even without any of it and hence is quite flexible.

The LitElement framework is easy to use as a base class to create lightweight and faster web components for working with any framework. LitElement is yet another one of the top web development frameworks among developers for using lit-html for rendering into shadow DOM. It also adds API for managing attributes and properties. Let’s find out whether the framework is good enough for your project.

When you're working with Web Components through LitElement, it's usual firing events for sending messages between them. You can use either Standard or Custom events.

🔸lit-element - a simple base class for creating fast, lightweight web components;

Isn't this just Polymer Lit Elements rebranded? https://github.com/Polymer/lit-element

Web components are a good start, but it is better to use LitElement to build them in that case, instead of using it directly.

Other frameworks which are using the same principle are [lit-element](https://github.com/Polymer/lit-element) and [heresy](https://github.com/WebReflection/heresy). there are surely more but these are ones i've found when looking for inspiration.

Using a lit-element component: