HTMLMinifier VS PostCSS

This project uses HTMLMinifier, optipng, and zopfli to create a custom production Elm build pipeline. You can see how I make use of these tools in this build script. Here are the results in case you're interested. I used the same ideas from this project to build and deploy dwayne/elm-conduit, which you can learn more about in my article Yet Another Tour of an Open-Source Elm SPA.

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.

html-minifier works since it has a cli and I can do something like the authors states in the documentation html-minifier --collapse-whitespace inside package.json "scripts": { }, thus I can run the task through the VSCode interface

[build] command = "pnpm build" publish = "_site" [build.processing] skip_processing = false [build.processing.css] minify = true bundle = false [build.processing.js] minify = true bundle = false # Config for the Netlify Build Plugin: netlify-plugin-minify-html [[plugins]] package = "netlify-plugin-minify-html" # Specify which deploy contexts we'll minify HTML in. # Supports any Deploy Contexts available in Netlify. # https://docs.netlify.com/site-deploys/overview/#deploy-contexts [plugins.inputs] contexts = [ 'production', 'branch-deploy', 'deploy-preview' ] # Optionally, override the default options for the minification # https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier#options-quick-reference [plugins.inputs.minifierOptions] collapseWhitespace = true conservativeCollapse = true minifyCSS = true minifyJS = true

Program: html-minifier Arguments: $FileName$ --collapse-whitespace --remove-comments -o $FileName$

HTMLMinifier

I found this one https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier which seems to be browser compatible, but impossible to get it to build with my setup (Next.js + typescript).

That's Minifcation and you'd normally thigs like https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier

I am not sure what you'd use this tool for possibly for scraping work but beautiful soup is probably better for that

☕ Minify HTML & CSS with HTMLMinifier and cssnano

the plugins in the official PostCSS website were old like IE6 or the marquee tag, and

Hello internet. I just published a new blog post on how to implement dark mode with SvelteKit, optionally with PostCSS and TailwindCSS:

There are many frontend tools available for this purpose. For example, PostCSS is a popular CSS processor that can combine and minimize your code. With the right plugin, it can even fix your code for compatibility issues, making sure your CSS styles work for all browsers.

I use PostCSS to extend CSS’s features and to add a few things that make writing styles a little more convenient, but it could easily be swapped for another preprocessor like Sass or vanilla CSS. It’s up to you. You can view my PostCSS config here.

Code transpilation isn't specific to JavaScript, You can also add a level of transformation to your CSS source using tools like post-css. Most languages with a fairly mature ecosystem will probably have some tools to help with code transformation.

In large projects, it is still a good idea to use PostCSS, which will translate new CSS features to something that browsers understand today.

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.

Usually, one of the first things I do on creating a new web app is to throw a UI library in to help style components. There are several UI libraries that can be used by Svelte, but in this case I went with daisyUI because it's a fairly popular UI library which includes tailwind. To install daisyUI, you first need to install tailwind. There's a few different ways to do this (such as this guide), but the easiest way I've found is the following command, which also adds PostCSS and AutoPrefixer:

Vanilla CSS has taken a similar path with ambitious working drafts, better browser support, and PostCSS to fill the gap for user agents lagging behind. So why is Sass/SCSS still so popular? Maybe we go so used to it that we might have forgotten what problems it was meant to solve in the first place.