Optimize CSS with SAT Solving

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  1. sat-css-tool

    Minify CSS files through refactoring

  2. Sevalla

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  3. csso

    CSS minifier with structural optimizations

    I may have skipped a step or 2 but that was basically it. I then used satcss' output with this tool

    https://css.github.io/csso/csso.html

    to beautify and further organize it

  4. critters

    Discontinued 🦔 A Webpack plugin to inline your critical CSS and lazy-load the rest.

    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.

  5. uncss

    Remove unused styles from CSS

    Check out: https://github.com/uncss/uncss

    I've only used it once but it did the job (NOTE: Plain HTML, plain CSS, no build pipeline. So YMMV)

  6. purgecss

    Remove unused CSS

    As a starting point, Tailwind used to use PurgeCSS [0] but I'm not sure what they use now.

    [0] https://purgecss.com

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