minimize

HTML minifier

Minimize is a HTML minifier based on the node-htmlparser. This depedency will ensure output is solid and correct. Currently, HTML minifier is only usuable server side. Client side minification will be added in a future release.

Features

Upcoming in release 2.0

• minification of inline javascript by square
• client side minification support
• increased configurability (quote switcher, element replacement)

Usage

To get the minified content make sure to provide a callback. Optional an options object can be provided. All options are listed below and false per default.

var minimize = require('minimize')
  , options = {
        empty: true // DO NOT remove empty attributes 
      , cdata: true // DO NOT strip CDATA from scripts
      , comments: true // DO NOT remove comments
      , spare: true // DO NOT remove redundant attributes
    };

minimize(content, function (data) {
  console.log(data);
}, options);

Options

empty

cdata

comments

spare

Tests

Benchmarks

Credits

Minimize is influenced by the HTML minifier of kangax. This module parses the DOM as string as opposes to an object. However, retaining flow is more diffucult if the DOM is parsed sequentially. Minimize is not client-side ready. Kangax minifier also provides some additional options like linting. Minimize will retain strictly to the business of minifying.

HTMLparser of Tautologistics is used to create an object representation of the DOM.