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Node js css minify
HTMLMinifier is a highly configurable, well-tested, JavaScript-based HTML minifier.
For lint-like capabilities take a look at HTMLLint.
How does HTMLMinifier compare to other solutions — HTML Minifier from Will Peavy (1st result in Google search for «html minifier») as well as htmlcompressor.com and minimize?
Site | Original size (KB) | HTMLMinifier | minimize | Will Peavy | htmlcompressor.com |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
46 | 42 | 46 | 48 | 46 | |
HTMLMinifier | 125 | 98 | 111 | 117 | 111 |
207 | 165 | 200 | 224 | 200 | |
Stack Overflow | 253 | 195 | 207 | 215 | 204 |
Bootstrap CSS | 271 | 260 | 269 | 228 | 269 |
BBC | 298 | 239 | 290 | 291 | 280 |
Amazon | 422 | 316 | 412 | 425 | n/a |
NBC | 553 | 530 | 552 | 553 | 534 |
Wikipedia | 565 | 461 | 548 | 569 | 548 |
New York Times | 678 | 606 | 675 | 670 | n/a |
Eloquent Javascript | 870 | 815 | 840 | 864 | n/a |
ES6 table | 5911 | 5051 | 5595 | n/a | n/a |
ES draft | 6126 | 5495 | 5664 | n/a | n/a |
Most of the options are disabled by default.
Option | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
caseSensitive | Treat attributes in case sensitive manner (useful for custom HTML tags) | false |
collapseBooleanAttributes | Omit attribute values from boolean attributes | false |
collapseInlineTagWhitespace | Don’t leave any spaces between display:inline; elements when collapsing. Must be used in conjunction with collapseWhitespace=true | false |
collapseWhitespace | Collapse white space that contributes to text nodes in a document tree | false |
conservativeCollapse | Always collapse to 1 space (never remove it entirely). Must be used in conjunction with collapseWhitespace=true | false |
continueOnParseError | Handle parse errors instead of aborting. | false |
customAttrAssign | Arrays of regex’es that allow to support custom attribute assign expressions (e.g. ‘ >»> ‘ ) | [ ] |
customAttrCollapse | Regex that specifies custom attribute to strip newlines from (e.g. /ng-class/ ) | |
customAttrSurround | Arrays of regex’es that allow to support custom attribute surround expressions (e.g. >checked=»checked»>> ) | [ ] |
customEventAttributes | Arrays of regex’es that allow to support custom event attributes for minifyJS (e.g. ng-click ) | [ /^on[a-z]$/ ] |
decodeEntities | Use direct Unicode characters whenever possible | false |
html5 | Parse input according to HTML5 specifications | true |
ignoreCustomComments | Array of regex’es that allow to ignore certain comments, when matched | [ /^!/ ] |
ignoreCustomFragments | Array of regex’es that allow to ignore certain fragments, when matched (e.g. , > , etc.) | [ //, // ] |
includeAutoGeneratedTags | Insert tags generated by HTML parser | true |
keepClosingSlash | Keep the trailing slash on singleton elements | false |
maxLineLength | Specify a maximum line length. Compressed output will be split by newlines at valid HTML split-points | |
minifyCSS | Minify CSS in style elements and style attributes (uses clean-css) | false (could be true , Object , Function(text, type) ) |
minifyJS | Minify JavaScript in script elements and event attributes (uses UglifyJS) | false (could be true , Object , Function(text, inline) ) |
minifyURLs | Minify URLs in various attributes (uses relateurl) | false (could be String , Object , Function(text) ) |
preserveLineBreaks | Always collapse to 1 line break (never remove it entirely) when whitespace between tags include a line break. Must be used in conjunction with collapseWhitespace=true | false |
preventAttributesEscaping | Prevents the escaping of the values of attributes | false |
processConditionalComments | Process contents of conditional comments through minifier | false |
processScripts | Array of strings corresponding to types of script elements to process through minifier (e.g. text/ng-template , text/x-handlebars-template , etc.) | [ ] |
quoteCharacter | Type of quote to use for attribute values (‘ or «) | |
removeAttributeQuotes | Remove quotes around attributes when possible | false |
removeComments | Strip HTML comments | false |
removeEmptyAttributes | Remove all attributes with whitespace-only values | false (could be true , Function(attrName, tag) ) |
removeEmptyElements | Remove all elements with empty contents | false |
removeOptionalTags | Remove optional tags | false |
removeRedundantAttributes | Remove attributes when value matches default. | false |
removeScriptTypeAttributes | Remove type=»text/javascript» from script tags. Other type attribute values are left intact | false |
removeStyleLinkTypeAttributes | Remove type=»text/css» from style and link tags. Other type attribute values are left intact | false |
removeTagWhitespace | Remove space between attributes whenever possible. Note that this will result in invalid HTML! | false |
sortAttributes | Sort attributes by frequency | false |
sortClassName | Sort style classes by frequency | false |
trimCustomFragments | Trim white space around ignoreCustomFragments . | false |
useShortDoctype | Replaces the doctype with the short (HTML5) doctype | false |
Sorting attributes / style classes
Minifier options like sortAttributes and sortClassName won’t impact the plain-text size of the output. However, they form long repetitive chains of characters that should improve compression ratio of gzip used in HTTP compression.
Ignoring chunks of markup
If you have chunks of markup you would like preserved, you can wrap them .
SVG tags are automatically recognized, and when they are minified, both case-sensitivity and closing-slashes are preserved, regardless of the minification settings used for the rest of the file.
Working with invalid markup
HTMLMinifier can’t work with invalid or partial chunks of markup. This is because it parses markup into a tree structure, then modifies it (removing anything that was specified for removal, ignoring anything that was specified to be ignored, etc.), then it creates a markup out of that tree and returns it.
Internal representation of markup in a form of tree (e.g. < tag: "p", attr: "id", children: ["foo"] >)
Transformation of internal representation (e.g. removal of id attribute)
Output of resulting markup (e.g.
foo
)
HTMLMinifier can’t know that original markup was only half of the tree; it does its best to try to parse it as a full tree and it loses information about tree being malformed or partial in the beginning. As a result, it can’t create a partial/malformed tree at the time of the output.
From NPM for use as a command line app:
npm install html-minifier -g
From NPM for programmatic use:
git clone git://github.com/kangax/html-minifier.gitcd html-minifiernpm link .
Note that almost all options are disabled by default. For command line usage please see html-minifier —help for a list of available options. Experiment and find what works best for you and your project.
- Sample command line: html-minifier —collapse-whitespace —remove-comments —remove-optional-tags —remove-redundant-attributes —remove-script-type-attributes —remove-tag-whitespace —use-short-doctype —minify-css true —minify-js true
var minify = require('html-minifier').minify;var result = minify('foo
',removeAttributeQuotes: true>);result; // 'foo
'
Benchmarks for minified HTML:
How to minify CSS with Node.js
We’ll be using PostCSS to easily minify a string of CSS in a Node.js script.
First, install the necessary packages:
npm install postcss cssnano autoprefixer
postcss is what we’re using the do the minifying, and cssnano and autoprefixer are plugins for PostCSS that tell PostCSS how to manipulate the CSS. cssnano comes with a bunch of built-in techniques for making CSS smaller, and autoprefixer adds those -webkit or -moz prefixes where necessary to make your CSS compatible with all browsers.
Now that you’ve installed the npm packages, here’s how you use them:
const postcss = require('postcss') const cssnano = require('cssnano') const autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer') // Wrapped in a function so we can use async/await const minifyCss = async () => // This CSS might be imported from a file, or anywhere else const css = ` * font-family: system-ui; > ` // We pass in an array of the plugins we want to use: `cssnano` and `autoprefixer` const output = await postcss([cssnano, autoprefixer]) .process(css) // The `css` property of `output` is the minified CSS as a string const minifiedCss = output.css > minifyCss()
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A very light minifier Node.js module.
It allow you to compress JavaScript, CSS and HTML files.
Command Line Interface:
npm install @node-minify/core # Or Yarn yarn add @node-minify/core # Or pnpm pnpm add @node-minify/core
And install the compressor you want
npm install @node-minify/uglify-js # Or Yarn yarn add @node-minify/uglify-js # Or pnpm pnpm add @node-minify/uglify-js
import minify from '@node-minify/core'; import gcc from '@node-minify/google-closure-compiler'; import uglifyjs from '@node-minify/uglify-js'; // Using Google Closure Compiler minify( compressor: gcc, input: 'foo.js', output: 'bar.js', callback: function (err, min) > >); // Using UglifyJS minify( compressor: uglifyjs, input: './**/*.js', output: 'bar.js', callback: function (err, min) > >); // Using Promise var promise = minify( compressor: uglifyjs, input: './**/*.js', output: 'bar.js' >); promise.then(function (min) >); // Async/Await async function doMinify() const min = await minify( compressor: uglifyjs, input: 'foo.js', output: 'bar.js' >); >
import htmlMinifier from '@node-minify/html-minifier'; const html = ` `; minify( compressor: htmlMinifier, content: html >).then(function (min) console.log('html min'); console.log(min); >);
Minify
Minify — a minifier of js , css , html and img files.
To get things done Minify uses this amazing tools:
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How to use?
CLI
Usage: minify [options] Options: -h, --help display this help and exit -v, --version display version and exit --js minify javascript --css minify css --html minify html --auto auto detect format
The bash command below creates a code snippet saved as hello.js .
Simply copy + paste the code starting with cat, including the EOT on the last line, and press .
$ cat EOT > hello.js const hello = 'world'; for (let i = 0; i < hello.length; i++) console.log(hello[i]); > EOT
Use the command minify followed by the path to and name of the js file intended to be minified. This will minify the code and output it to the screen.
$ minify hello.js var a='world';for(let i=0;ia.length;i++)console.log(a[i]);
You can capture the output with the following:
$ minify hello.js > hello.min.js
You can pass input using cat :
cat EOT | bin/minify.js --js > const hello = 'world'; > > for (let i = 0; i < hello.length; i++) > console.log(hello[i]); > > > EOT var a='world';for(let i=0;i
Minify can be used with async-await and try-to-catch:
import minify> from 'minify'; import tryToCatch from 'try-to-catch'; const options = html: removeAttributeQuotes: false, removeOptionalTags: false, >, >; const [error, data] = await tryToCatch(minify, './client.js', options); if (error) return console.error(error.message); console.log(data);
Options
For cli use these options can be provided in a JSON file named .minify.json like so:
< "js": < "mangleClassNames": true, "removeUnusedVariables": true, "removeConsole": false, "removeUselessSpread": true >, "img": < "maxSize": 4096 >, "html": < "removeComments": true, "removeCommentsFromCDATA": true, "removeCDATASectionsFromCDATA": true, "collapseWhitespace": true, "collapseBooleanAttributes": true, "removeAttributeQuotes": true, "removeRedundantAttributes": true, "useShortDoctype": true, "removeEmptyAttributes": true, "removeEmptyElements": false, "removeOptionalTags": true, "removeScriptTypeAttributes": true, "removeStyleLinkTypeAttributes": true, "minifyJS": true, "minifyCSS": true >, "css": < "compatibility": "*" > >
Minify walking up parent directories to locate and read it’s configuration file .minify.json .