PostCSS
Transforming styles with JS plugins (by postcss)
cssnano
A modular minifier, built on top of the PostCSS ecosystem. (by cssnano)
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PostCSS | cssnano | |
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86 | 16 | |
28,192 | 4,622 | |
0.3% | 0.6% | |
8.8 | 8.8 | |
3 days ago | 6 days ago | |
TypeScript | CSS | |
MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
PostCSS
Posts with mentions or reviews of PostCSS.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-11.
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PostCSS - my initial experience
the plugins in the official PostCSS website were old like IE6 or the marquee tag, and
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Dark Mode with SvelteKit, a Blog Post
Hello internet. I just published a new blog post on how to implement dark mode with SvelteKit, optionally with PostCSS and TailwindCSS:
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11 Ways to Optimize Your Website
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.
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Styling React 2023 edition
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.
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Abstract Syntax Trees and Practical Applications in JavaScript
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.
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Native CSS nesting now supported by all major browsers!
In large projects, it is still a good idea to use PostCSS, which will translate new CSS features to something that browsers understand today.
- Unicode-range CSS is working wrong in Safari browser?
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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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How to setup a simple static website using Svelte (with login)
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:
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Vanilla+PostCSS as an Alternative to SCSS
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.
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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing PostCSS and cssnano you can also consider the following projects:
styled-components - Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress 💅
purgecss - Remove unused CSS
emotion - 👩🎤 CSS-in-JS library designed for high performance style composition
Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web
twind - The smallest, fastest, most feature complete Tailwind-in-JS solution in existence.
Sass - Sass makes CSS fun!
css-loader - CSS Loader
JSS - JSS is an authoring tool for CSS which uses JavaScript as a host language.
stylus - Expressive, robust, feature-rich CSS language built for nodejs