Top 16 Minifier Open-Source Projects

• esbuild

  322 37,307 9.5 Go

  An extremely fast bundler for the web

Project mention: Use Notion as your CMS along with Next.js | dev.to | 2024-04-10

During my search for deploying Lambdas via GitHub actions, I came across a tutorial that utilized ncc for converting TypeScript and bundling. While ncc is effective, I discovered esbuild, which proved to be significantly faster and perfectly suited to my requirements.

• oxc

  10 8,927 10.0 Rust

  ⚓ A collection of JavaScript tools written in Rust.

  

Project mention: The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-16

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• lightningcss

  11 5,966 8.7 Rust

  An extremely fast CSS parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier written in Rust.

  

Project mention: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-22

Would you consider using some libraries in your project? There are lots of good ones in the Rust ecosystem, and many of them are not part of any existing browsers.

For example:

- https://github.com/servo/html5ever (HTML parsing - note: this is used in Servo)

- https://github.com/parcel-bundler/lightningcss (CSS parsing)

- https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy (web layout)

- https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text (text layout and rendering)

Obviously you should be free to work on whatever you like, but just as a benchmark on the scope of your project: I spent ~6 months implementing just the CSS Grid algorithm in Taffy last year. An entire browser from literal scratch is probably a 10 year project for one person.

• csso

  5 3,728 0.0 JavaScript

  CSS minifier with structural optimizations

  

Project mention: Optimize CSS with SAT Solving | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-17

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

• minify

  2 3,594 9.2 Go

  Go minifiers for web formats (by tdewolff)

• minification-benchmarks

  15 1,208 9.1 TypeScript

  🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃 JS minification benchmarks: babel-minify, esbuild, terser, uglify-js, swc, google closure compiler, tdewolff/minify

Project mention: Extremely reducing the size of NPM package | dev.to | 2023-08-05

Minifiers are used to reduce the size of the bundle. They can remove unused code, shorten expressions, and so on. And Now there are already several popular minifiers, and they continue to appear: more familiar ones - written in JavaScript - Terser and UglifyJS, even Babel has its own version of the minifier, there are also more modern SWC (written in Rust) and ESBuild (written in Go), and a bunch of other lesser-known minifiers. And I recommend you to look at this repository. It contains up-to-date test results of various popular minifiers.

• python-minifier

  3 536 7.7 Python

  Transform Python source code into its most compact representation

• SaaSHub

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• serverless-esbuild

  6 435 6.7 TypeScript

  💨 A Serverless framework plugin to bundle JavaScript and TypeScript with extremely fast esbuild

Project mention: Simple requirement: Bundle dependencies into a single script. esbuild, webpack, bun build throw errors. Solution? | /r/node | 2023-12-07

Support Yarn PnP with externals bundling #327

• csso-cli

  2 125 3.2 JavaScript

  Command line interface for CSSO

  

• hasmin

  0 57 0.0 Haskell

  Hasmin - A Haskell CSS Minifier

• cordova-plugin-proguard

  1 51 4.1 Shell

  :white_square_button: Cordova Plugin for ProGuard

• vbsmin

  2 24 7.8 Ruby

  VBScript minifier

• gisteam

  1 18 0.0 CSS

  ⚡️ Fast server side rendering code beautifier, minifier, pastebin, encoder/decoder and hash generator ⚡️

• css

  1 14 0.0 PHP

  A CSS parser and minifier and sourcemap generator written in PHP (by tbela99)

• jsafer

  2 11 0.0 JavaScript

  A simple JS source code obfuscator/minifier that doesn't hurt consistency or speed.

• minify-selectors

  1 8 7.2 Rust

  Post-processor to minify class and ID selector names.

• SaaSHub

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