rehype-minify-whitespace

What is rehype-minify-whitespace?

The rehype-minify-whitespace package is a plugin for the rehype ecosystem that minifies whitespace in HTML. It helps in reducing the size of HTML files by removing unnecessary whitespace, which can improve load times and overall performance.

What are rehype-minify-whitespace's main functionalities?

Minify Whitespace

This feature minifies the whitespace in the provided HTML string. In the example, the excessive spaces between 'Hello' and 'World' are removed.

const rehype = require('rehype');
const minifyWhitespace = require('rehype-minify-whitespace');

rehype()
  .use(minifyWhitespace)
  .process('<div>   Hello   World   </div>', function (err, file) {
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log(String(file));
  });

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html-minifier

html-minifier is a highly configurable, full-featured HTML minifier. It offers more extensive options for minifying HTML, including removing comments, collapsing whitespace, and minifying CSS and JavaScript within the HTML. Compared to rehype-minify-whitespace, it provides a broader range of minification options but may be more complex to configure.

clean-css

clean-css is a fast and efficient CSS optimizer for Node.js. While it focuses on CSS, it can be used in conjunction with HTML minification tools to achieve comprehensive minification. It complements rehype-minify-whitespace by handling CSS minification, which rehype-minify-whitespace does not cover.

uglify-js

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README

rehype-minify-whitespace

Collapse whitespace.

Normally, collapses to a single space. If newlines: true, collapses white-space containing newlines to '\n' instead of ' '.

Install

npm install rehype-minify-whitespace

Example

In

<h1>Heading</h1>
<p><strong>This</strong> and <em>that</em></p>

Out

<h1>Heading</h1><p><strong>This</strong> and <em>that</em></p>

License

MIT © Titus Wormer