htmlnano is a highly configurable HTML minifier that helps reduce the size of HTML files by removing unnecessary characters, comments, and whitespace. It also provides various optimization options to improve the performance of web pages.
Minification
This feature removes unnecessary characters, comments, and whitespace from HTML files to reduce their size.
const htmlnano = require('htmlnano');
const html = '<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Test</title> </head> <body> <h1>Hello, world!</h1> </body> </html>';
htmlnano.process(html).then(result => console.log(result.html));Attribute Optimization
This feature removes empty attributes from HTML tags to further reduce the file size.
const htmlnano = require('htmlnano');
const html = '<img src="image.jpg" alt="" />';
const options = { removeEmptyAttributes: true };
htmlnano.process(html, options).then(result => console.log(result.html));CSS and JS Minification
This feature minifies inline CSS and JavaScript within HTML files to optimize performance.
const htmlnano = require('htmlnano');
const html = '<style>body { margin: 0; }</style><script>console.log("Hello, world!");</script>';
const options = { minifyCss: true, minifyJs: true };
htmlnano.process(html, options).then(result => console.log(result.html));Removing Redundant Attributes
This feature removes redundant attributes from HTML tags to make the HTML cleaner and smaller.
const htmlnano = require('htmlnano');
const html = '<input type="text" disabled="disabled" />';
const options = { removeRedundantAttributes: true };
htmlnano.process(html, options).then(result => console.log(result.html));html-minifier is a popular HTML minification tool that offers a wide range of options for compressing HTML files. It is highly configurable and can remove comments, whitespace, and redundant attributes, similar to htmlnano. However, html-minifier is more widely used and has a larger community.
clean-css is a fast and efficient CSS minifier that can be used to minify inline CSS within HTML files. While it focuses solely on CSS, it can be used in conjunction with other tools to achieve similar results to htmlnano's CSS minification feature.
terser is a JavaScript minifier that can be used to minify inline JavaScript within HTML files. It is highly configurable and offers advanced options for compressing and optimizing JavaScript code. When used alongside other tools, it can provide similar functionality to htmlnano's JS minification feature.
Modular HTML minifier, built on top of the PostHTML. Inspired by cssnano.
To switch to the optional fork of uncss, apply uncss-fork.patch.
Reasons you may want to do this are: uncss uses outdated dependencies with security issues
Reasons you may want to avoid this are: long term support, stability
| Website | Source (KB) | html-minifier-terser@5.1.1 | htmlnano@1.0.0 |
|---|---|---|---|
| stackoverflow.blog | 95 | 87 | 82 |
| github.com | 210 | 183 | 171 |
| en.wikipedia.org | 78 | 72 | 72 |
| npmjs.com | 41 | 38 | 36 |
| Avg. minify rate | 0% | 9% | 13% |
FAQs
Modular HTML minifier, built on top of the PostHTML
The npm package htmlnano receives a total of 59,895 weekly downloads. As such, htmlnano popularity was classified as popular.
We found that htmlnano 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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