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terser | PostCSS | |
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27 | 86 | |
8,419 | 28,181 | |
1.4% | 0.3% | |
8.9 | 8.8 | |
19 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
JavaScript | TypeScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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terser
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Obfuscating your create react app and routes
During my intial search i came across some outdated libraries like javascript-obfuscator and uglify-js(as if javascript code can get any uglier, am I right?). Then, I stumbled upon Terser, a modern library that supports ES6.
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10 Bad Habits That Can Slow Down Your JavaScript Applications 🐌
Example: You've got a main.js file that's as long as a Tolstoy novel. Fix: Use tools like UglifyJS or Terser to minify your code. They'll squeeze out all the unnecessary bits and give you a sleeker, faster-loading file.
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Things you forgot because of React
They can do it, it is just turned off by default and require more advanced configuration.
https://github.com/terser/terser#cli-mangling-property-names...
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Understanding Source Maps: Simplifying Debugging
Minifying is a common practice for optimizing production code. (for example, using Terser to minify and mangle JavaScript).
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How To Secure Your JavaScript Applications
Minification: UglifyJS, Terser
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Minify private methods in a TypeScript class
Terser is JavaScript compressor that can minified specific method names.
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React Native CI/CD build speed improved by 22% with one line of code
Every release build of React Native uses terser to reduce the size of your JavaScript. And it operation can be omitted for Staging/Beta builds.
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Setting up a custom toolchain
A minifier makes your code more compact so that it loads faster. Popular minifiers: Terser, swc.
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Overview of the next-gen frontend dev tools
There are many minifiers such as terser and uglify. But, because minifying also require to parse the JS, it is actually possible to use esbuild and SWC to minify the code. Here's a benchmark of the main minifiers.
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Rollup Library Starter
This next one will help us reduce final bundle size by minifying the generated code. It's called rollup-plugin-terser and uses terser under the hood to minify the code.
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?
esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web
styled-components - Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress 💅
vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!
emotion - 👩🎤 CSS-in-JS library designed for high performance style composition
UglifyJS2 - JavaScript parser / mangler / compressor / beautifier toolkit
closure-compiler - A JavaScript checker and optimizer.
Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
Sass - Sass makes CSS fun!
purgecss - Remove unused CSS
prettier - Dockernized prettier. This is an opinionated code formatter.
JSS - JSS is an authoring tool for CSS which uses JavaScript as a host language.