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clean-css is a fast and efficient CSS optimizer for Node.js and the web. It minifies CSS by removing whitespace, comments, and unnecessary characters, merging identical rules, and applying other optimization techniques. It can be used to reduce the size of CSS files, which can lead to faster page load times and improved performance.
Minification
This feature allows you to minify CSS by removing unnecessary characters and whitespace, which results in smaller file sizes.
const CleanCSS = require('clean-css');
new CleanCSS().minify('a { font-weight: bold; }', function (error, output) {
console.log(output.styles);
});
Source Map Generation
clean-css can generate source maps for the minified CSS, which is useful for debugging minified code in the browser.
const CleanCSS = require('clean-css');
new CleanCSS({ sourceMap: true, sourceMapInlineSources: true }).minify({ 'styles.css': { styles: 'a { color: #000 }' } }, function (error, output) {
console.log(output.sourceMap.toString());
});
Merging of Identical CSS Rules
This feature merges identical CSS rules into one to reduce file size and redundancy in the code.
const CleanCSS = require('clean-css');
new CleanCSS().minify('a { color: red; } a { color: red; }', function (error, output) {
console.log(output.styles);
});
Optimizing CSS Properties
clean-css can optimize CSS properties, such as converting hex color codes to shorter names when possible.
const CleanCSS = require('clean-css');
new CleanCSS().minify('a { color: #FF0000; }', function (error, output) {
console.log(output.styles);
});
cssnano is a modular CSS minifier that utilizes PostCSS. It offers optimizations like reducing calc() references, z-index rebasing, and discarding unused at-rules. Compared to clean-css, cssnano provides a plugin system and can be more configurable due to its modular nature.
uglifycss is a simple CSS minifier that works both in Node.js and the browser. It is less feature-rich compared to clean-css and does not support source maps, but it is straightforward to use for basic minification tasks.
csso (CSS Optimizer) is a CSS minifier with structural optimizations. It can restructure CSS rules to reduce file size and also merge selectors and properties. csso is known for its aggressive optimization techniques, which sometimes can be more efficient than clean-css, but may also require careful testing to ensure the final CSS behaves as expected.
Clean-css is a node.js library for minifying CSS files. It does the same job as YUI Compressor's CSS minifier but much faster thanks to speed of node.js V8 engine.
npm install clean-css
You can minify one file public.css into public-min.css via:
cleancss -o public-min.css public.css
To minify the same public.css into standard output skip the -o parameter:
cleancss public.css
Or more likely you would like to do something like this:
cat one.css two.css three.css | cleancss -o merged-and-minified.css
Or even gzip it at once:
cat one.css two.css three.css | cleancss | gzip -9 -c > merged-minified-and-gzipped.css.gz
var cleanCSS = require('clean-css');
var source = "a{font-weight:bold;}";
var minimized = cleanCSS.process(source);
You need vows testing framework (npm install vows) then simply run:
make test
FAQs
A well-tested CSS minifier
The npm package clean-css receives a total of 11,815,251 weekly downloads. As such, clean-css popularity was classified as popular.
We found that clean-css demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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