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CSSO (CSS Optimizer) is a CSS minifier. It performs three sort of transformations: cleaning (removing redundant), compression (replacement for shorter form) and restructuring (merge of declarations, rulesets and so on). As a result your CSS becomes much smaller.
Usage
npm install -g csso
Or try out CSSO right in your browser (web interface).
Runners
- Gulp: gulp-csso
- Grunt: grunt-csso
- Broccoli: broccoli-csso
- PostCSS: postcss-csso
- Webpack: csso-loader
Command line
csso [input] [output] [options]
Options:
--comments <value> Comments to keep: exclamation (default), first-exclamation or none
--debug [level] Output intermediate state of CSS during compression
-h, --help Output usage information
-i, --input <filename> Input file
--input-map <source> Input source map: none, auto (default) or <filename>
-m, --map <destination> Generate source map: none (default), inline, file or <filename>
-o, --output <filename> Output file (result outputs to stdout if not set)
--restructure-off Turns structure minimization off
--stat Output statistics in stderr
-u, --usage <filenane> Usage data file
-v, --version Output version
Some examples:
> csso in.css
...output result in stdout...
> csso in.css --output out.css
> echo '.test { color: #ff0000; }' | csso
.test{color:red}
> cat source1.css source2.css | csso | gzip -9 -c > production.css.gz
Source maps
Source map doesn't generate by default. To generate map use --map CLI option, that can be:
none(default) – don't generate source mapinline– add source map into result CSS (via/*# sourceMappingURL=application/json;base64,... */)file– write source map into file with same name as output file, but with.mapextension (in this case--outputoption is required)- any other values treat as filename for generated source map
Examples:
> csso my.css --map inline
> csso my.css --output my.min.css --map file
> csso my.css --output my.min.css --map maps/my.min.map
Use --input-map option to specify input source map if needed. Possible values for option:
auto(default) - attempt to fetch input source map by follow steps:- try to fetch inline map from input
- try to fetch source map filename from input and read its content
- (when
--inputis specified) check file with same name as input file but with.mapextension exists and read its content
none- don't use input source map; actually it's using to disableauto-fetching- any other values treat as filename for input source map
Generally you shouldn't care about input source map since defaults behaviour (auto) covers most use cases.
NOTE: Input source map is using only if output source map is generating.
Usage data
CSSO can use data about how CSS is using for better compression. File with this data (JSON format) can be set using --usage option. Usage data may contain follow sections:
tags– white list of tagsids– white list of idsclasses– white list of classesscopes– groups of classes which never used with classes from other groups on single element
All sections are optional. Value of tags, ids and classes should be array of strings, value of scopes should be an array of arrays of strings. Other values are ignoring.
Selector filtering
tags, ids and classes are using on clean stage to filter selectors that contains something that not in list. Selectors are filtering only by those kind of simple selector which white list is specified. For example, if only tags list is specified then type selectors are checking, and if selector hasn't any type selector (or even any type selector) it isn't filter.
idsandclassesnames are case sensitive,tags– is not.
Input CSS:
* { color: green; }
ul, ol, li { color: blue; }
UL.foo, span.bar { color: red; }
Usage data:
{
"tags": ["ul", "LI"]
}
Result CSS:
*{color:green}ul,li{color:blue}ul.foo{color:red}
Scopes
Scopes is designed for CSS scope isolation solutions such as css-modules. Scopes are similar to namespaces and defines lists of class names that exclusively used on some markup. This information allows the optimizer to move rulesets more agressive. Since it assumes selectors from different scopes can't to be matched on the same element. That leads to better ruleset merging.
Suppose we have a file:
.module1-foo { color: red; }
.module1-bar { font-size: 1.5em; background: yellow; }
.module2-baz { color: red; }
.module2-qux { font-size: 1.5em; background: yellow; width: 50px; }
It can be assumed that first two rules never used with second two on the same markup. But we can't know that for sure without markup. The optimizer doesn't know it eather and will perform safe transformations only. The result will be the same as input but with no spaces and some semicolons:
.module1-foo{color:red}.module1-bar{font-size:1.5em;background:#ff0}.module2-baz{color:red}.module2-qux{font-size:1.5em;background:#ff0;width:50px}
But with usage data CSSO can get better output. If follow usage data is provided:
{
"scopes": [
["module1-foo", "module1-bar"],
["module2-baz", "module2-qux"]
]
}
New result (29 bytes extra saving):
.module1-foo,.module2-baz{color:red}.module1-bar,.module2-qux{font-size:1.5em;background:#ff0}.module2-qux{width:50px}
If class name doesn't specified in scopes it belongs to default "scope". scopes doesn't affect classes. If class name presents in scopes but missed in classes (both sections specified) it will be filtered.
Note that class name can't be specified in several scopes. Also selector can't has classes from different scopes. In both cases an exception throws.
Currently the optimizer doesn't care about out-of-bounds selectors order changing safety (i.e. selectors that may be matched to elements with no class name of scope, e.g. .scope div or .scope ~ :last-child) since assumes scoped CSS modules doesn't relay on it's order. It may be fix in future if to be an issue.
API
var csso = require('csso');
var compressedCss = csso.minify('.test { color: #ff0000; }').css;
console.log(compressedCss);
// .test{color:red}
You may minify CSS by yourself step by step:
var ast = csso.parse('.test { color: #ff0000; }');
var compressResult = csso.compress(ast);
var compressedCss = csso.translate(compressResult.ast);
console.log(compressedCss);
// .test{color:red}
Working with source maps:
var css = fs.readFileSync('path/to/my.css', 'utf8');
var result = csso.minify(css, {
filename: 'path/to/my.css', // will be added to source map as reference to source file
sourceMap: true // generate source map
});
console.log(result);
// { css: '...minified...', map: SourceMapGenerator {} }
console.log(result.map.toString());
// '{ .. source map content .. }'
minify(source[, options])
Minify source CSS passed as String.
Options:
- sourceMap
Boolean- generate source map iftrue - filename
String- filename of input, uses for source map - debug
Boolean- output debug information tostderr - beforeCompress
function|array<function>- called right after parse is run. Callbacks arguments areast, options. - afterCompress
function|array<function>- called right after compress is run. Callbacks arguments arecompressResult, options. - other options are the same as for
compress()
Returns an object with properties:
- css
String– resulting CSS - map
Object– instance ofSourceMapGeneratorornull
var result = csso.minify('.test { color: #ff0000; }', {
restructure: false, // don't change CSS structure, i.e. don't merge declarations, rulesets etc
debug: true // show additional debug information:
// true or number from 1 to 3 (greater number - more details)
});
console.log(result.css);
// > .test{color:red}
minifyBlock(source[, options])
The same as minify() but for style block. Usualy it's a style attribute content.
var result = csso.minifyBlock('color: rgba(255, 0, 0, 1); color: #ff0000').css;
console.log(result.css);
// > color:red
parse(source[, options])
Parse CSS to AST.
NOTE: Currenly parser omit redundant separators, spaces and comments (except exclamation comments, i.e.
/*! comment */) on AST build, since those things are removing by compressor anyway.
Options:
- context
String– parsing context, useful when some part of CSS is parsing (see below) - positions
Boolean– should AST contains node position or not, store data ininfoproperty of nodes (falseby default) - filename
String– filename of source that adds to info whenpositionsis true, uses for source map generation (<unknown>by default) - line
Number– initial line number, useful when parse fragment of CSS to compute correct positions - column
Number– initial column number, useful when parse fragment of CSS to compute correct positions
Contexts:
stylesheet(default) – regular stylesheet, should be suitable in most casesatrule– at-rule (e.g.@media screen, print { ... })atruleExpression– at-rule expression (screen, printfor example above)ruleset– rule (e.g..foo, .bar:hover { color: red; border: 1px solid black; })selector– selector group (.foo, .bar:hoverfor ruleset example)simpleSelector– selector (.fooor.bar:hoverfor ruleset example)block– block content w/o curly braces (color: red; border: 1px solid black;for ruleset example)declaration– declaration (color: redorborder: 1px solid blackfor ruleset example)value– declaration value (redor1px solid blackfor ruleset example)
// simple parsing with no options
var ast = csso.parse('.example { color: red }');
// parse with options
var ast = csso.parse('.foo.bar', {
context: 'simpleSelector',
positions: true
});
compress(ast[, options])
Does the main task – compress AST.
NOTE:
compressperforms AST compression by transforming input AST by default (since AST cloning is expensive and needed in rare cases). Usecloneoption with truthy value in case you want to keep input AST untouched.
Options:
- restructure
Boolean– do the structure optimisations or not (trueby default) - clone
Boolean- transform a copy of input AST iftrue, useful in case of AST reuse (falseby default) - comments
StringorBoolean– specify what comments to left'exclamation'ortrue(default) – left all exclamation comments (i.e./*! .. */)'first-exclamation'– remove every comments except first onefalse– remove every comments
- usage
Object- usage data for advanced optimisations (see Usage data for details) - logger
Function- function to track every step of transformations
clone(ast)
Make an AST node deep copy.
var orig = csso.parse('.test { color: red }');
var copy = csso.clone(orig);
csso.walk(copy, function(node) {
if (node.type === 'Class') {
node.name = 'replaced';
}
});
console.log(csso.translate(orig));
// .test{color:red}
console.log(csso.translate(copy));
// .replaced{color:red}
translate(ast)
Converts AST to string.
var ast = csso.parse('.test { color: red }');
console.log(csso.translate(ast));
// > .test{color:red}
translateWithSourceMap(ast)
The same as translate() but also generates source map (nodes should contain positions in info property).
var ast = csso.parse('.test { color: red }', {
filename: 'my.css',
positions: true
});
console.log(csso.translateWithSourceMap(ast));
// { css: '.test{color:red}', map: SourceMapGenerator {} }
walk(ast, handler)
Visit all nodes of AST and call handler for each one. handler receives three arguments:
- node – current AST node
- item – node wrapper when node is a list member; this wrapper contains references to
prevandnextnodes in list - list – reference to list when node is a list member; it's useful for operations on list like
remove()orinsert()
Context for handler an object, that contains references to some parent nodes:
- root – refers to
astor root node - stylesheet – refers to closest
StyleSheetnode, it may be a top-level or at-rule block stylesheet - atruleExpression – refers to
AtruleExpressionnode if current node inside at-rule expression - ruleset – refers to
Rulesetnode if current node inside a ruleset - selector – refers to
Selectornode if current node inside a selector - declaration – refers to
Declarationnode if current node inside a declaration - function – refers to closest
FunctionorFunctionalPseudonode if current node inside one of them
// collect all urls in declarations
var csso = require('./lib/index.js');
var urls = [];
var ast = csso.parse(`
@import url(import.css);
.foo { background: url('foo.jpg'); }
.bar { background-image: url(bar.png); }
`);
csso.walk(ast, function(node) {
if (this.declaration !== null && node.type === 'Url') {
var value = node.value;
if (value.type === 'Raw') {
urls.push(value.value);
} else {
urls.push(value.value.substr(1, value.value.length - 2));
}
}
});
console.log(urls);
// [ 'foo.jpg', 'bar.png' ]
walkRules(ast, handler)
Same as walk() but visits Ruleset and Atrule nodes only.
walkRulesRight(ast, handler)
Same as walkRules() but visits nodes in reverse order (from last to first).
More reading
License
MIT