pug-plugin VS critters

Compare pug-plugin vs critters and see what are their differences.

pug-plugin

Uses Pug template as entry point. Resolves source files of scripts, styles, images in Pug. Renders Pug to HTML. (by webdiscus)

critters

🦔 A Webpack plugin to inline your critical CSS and lazy-load the rest. (by GoogleChromeLabs)
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pug-plugin critters
4 7
67 3,376
- 1.2%
6.7 6.6
22 days ago about 2 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
ISC License Apache License 2.0
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pug-plugin

Posts with mentions or reviews of pug-plugin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-22.

critters

Posts with mentions or reviews of critters. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-25.
  • Show HN: Jampack – Optimizes static websites as a post-processing step
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2024
    I'm interested in the notion of identifying "critical" CSS that should be inlined rather than live in its own stylesheet.

    I was hoping there was some principled way of identifying critical and non-critical CSS (e.g. user interaction effects like :hover would always be considered non-critical), but it looks like the library it's using just tries to render your page and do a best-effort detection on which rules are considered critical, which is a little unsatisfying: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/critters

  • Optimize CSS with SAT Solving
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2024
    https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/critters Might be a good starting point. It’s designed to inline the css afterward so it’s more focused on extracting used css than removing unused.
  • Critical CSS and Next.js App Directory
    1 project | /r/nextjs | 26 Nov 2023
    With the Pages dir, we had experimental support for critters. That was good enough for me
  • Remove CSS Styles and Apply Styles to All Elements
    1 project | /r/css | 7 May 2023
    Critters does something similar but it is intended to inline only the CSS that is visible upon the page load (top of the page). There is also a Vite plugin that inlines everything that is possible to inline
  • Optimizing CSS Performance in Nuxt with Critters
    2 projects | dev.to | 26 Dec 2022
    // nuxt.config.js import { defineNuxtConfig } from 'nuxt' export default defineNuxtConfig({ modules: ['@nuxtjs/critters'], critters: { // Options passed directly to critters: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/critters#critters-2 config: { // Default: 'media' preload: 'swap', }, }, })
  • Critical CSS? Not So Fast
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Sep 2022
    I find critters[0] quite easy to work with and well worth implementing on my nextjs or Astro projects.

    I build a lot of landing pages so there are very few multi page visits.

    [0] https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/critters

  • Vue Webpack - possible to extract some CSS but not all?
    1 project | /r/vuejs | 24 Dec 2021
    Doesn't critters do this already? https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/critters I could be wrong though

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pug-plugin and critters you can also consider the following projects:

pug-loader - Pug loader for Webpack renders pug to HTML or template function

compression-webpack-plugin - Prepare compressed versions of assets to serve them with Content-Encoding

gulp-pug-starter - Frontend development with pleasure. Pug + SCSS version

critters - CSS optimization using critters for Nuxt

html-bundler-webpack-plugin - This plugin allows to use an HTML template as a starting point for all dependencies used in your web application. All source styles, scripts specified in HTML are processed, and the extracted JS, CSS are saved to the output directory. The plugin automatically substitutes output filenames into the generated HTML file.

webpack-assets-manifest - This webpack plugin will generate a JSON file that matches the original filename with the hashed version.

offline-plugin - Offline plugin (ServiceWorker, AppCache) for webpack (https://webpack.js.org/)

mangle-css-class-webpack-plugin - Minifies and obfuscates the class names in your existing JavaScript, CSS, and HTML without any modern css modules.

eink-css-ui-framework - ePaperCSS: The ePaper CSS UI framework for e-ink and ePaper displays. Optimized for grayscale & accessibility

critical - Extract & Inline Critical-path CSS in HTML pages

parallax-3d-lens-effect - 3D parallax effect by mouse moving using CSS transform

penthouse - Generate critical css for your web pages