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purgecss
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Optimize CSS with SAT Solving
As a starting point, Tailwind used to use PurgeCSS [0] but I'm not sure what they use now.
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How to load critical styles for a NextJs app
A similar question was already posted here but, I think looking at the raw html, we will be able to better determine the required css than what Purgecss does.
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Frontend development roadmap
PurgeCss
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How to speed up your web application
Webpack minifies JS and CSS files by default when we build them in production mode. But it does not remove useless styles or classes. For this, you can use libraries like https://purgecss.com/ Do not forget to check the dependency, connect only the functionality that you use.
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Removing unused CSS in a Django template-based project
When I searched online I couldn't find an "industry standard" solution to this problem. What I ended up doing was using the popular tool PurgeCSS along with a quick Python script to generate the appropriate command. What the PurgeCSS tool does is search for all your HTML files, gather all the CSS classes used, and then "purge" all the unused ones from the CSS file. You just need to declare all the HTML files you have.
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23 of the best Eleventy Themes (Starters) for 2023
Skeleventy gives you a rock-solid foundation to build fast and accessible static websites, with clean, understated design. Features include a minimal build pipeline with Laravel Mix, the Sass-powered utility class generator Gorko, Purge CSS, an HTML minifier, SEO-friendly page metadata, image lazy loading, responsive navigation, and an XML sitemap.
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Reduce unused CSS / JS from a Django App
You could look into using PurgeCSS and its cli?
- Eliminating unused selectors from Sass
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Workplaces for digital nomads: the frontend
Unable to get rid of unused styles. Importing components individually and setting styles in SASS can greatly simplify builds, but several common unused styles can't be deleted using PurgeCSS and analogues due to dynamic class names.
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Does My Website Look Big in This? Six Tips to Lower your Page Weight
If you’re hand-crafting your CSS, using only the exact classes you need, you’ll still probably find that your CSS file size grows as your site does. But it doesn’t need to grow too much — you can remove unused classes with tools like Purge CSS .
PostCSS
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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.
What are some alternatives?
vue-vite-starter-template - A single page app Vite starter template, created to easily bootstrap Vue.js 2 apps
styled-components - Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress 💅
cssnano - A modular minifier, built on top of the PostCSS ecosystem.
emotion - 👩🎤 CSS-in-JS library designed for high performance style composition
esbuild-loader - Webpack loader for esbuild: Speed up your build ⚡️
esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web
snarkdown - :smirk_cat: A snarky 1kb Markdown parser written in JavaScript
Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
purifycss - Remove unused CSS. Also works with single-page apps.
JSS - JSS is an authoring tool for CSS which uses JavaScript as a host language.
twin.macro - 🦹♂️ Twin blends the magic of Tailwind with the flexibility of css-in-js (emotion, styled-components, solid-styled-components, stitches and goober) at build time.
prettier - Prettier is an opinionated code formatter.