hasmin: CSS Minifier

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A CSS minifier which not only aims at reducing the amount of bytes of the output, but also at improving gzip compression. It may be used as a library, or a stand-alone executable. For the library, refer to the Hasmin module documentation. For the program: the output is the minified CSS file, but hasmin allows also its compression into gzip using Google's Zopfli library.

To use it: ./hasmin input.css > output.css

By default, most minification techniques are enabled. For a list of available flags, do: ./hasmin --help

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Versions	0.3.0.1, 0.3.1.3, 0.3.2, 0.3.2.1, 0.3.2.2, 0.3.2.3, 0.3.2.4, 0.3.3, 0.3.3, 0.3.3.1, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.2.1, 1.0.3
Change log	CHANGELOG.md
Dependencies	attoparsec (>=0.12 && <0.14), base (>=4.9 && <5.1), bytestring (>=0.10.2.0 && <0.11), containers (>=0.5 && <0.6), gitrev (>=1.0.0 && <1.4), hasmin, hopfli (>=0.2 && <0.4), matrix (>=0.3.4 && <0.4), mtl (>=2.2.1 && <2.3), numbers (>=3000.2.0.0 && <3000.3), optparse-applicative (>=0.11 && <0.15), parsers (>=0.12.3 && <0.13), text (>=1.2 && <1.3) [details]
License	BSD-3-Clause
Author	(c) 2017 Cristian Adrián Ontivero <cristianontivero@gmail.com>
Maintainer	Cristian Adrián Ontivero <cristianontivero@gmail.com>
Category	Text
Home page	https://github.com/contivero/hasmin#readme
Bug tracker	https://github.com/contivero/hasmin/issues
Source repo	head: git clone https://github.com/contivero/hasmin.git
Uploaded	by contivero at 2017-10-13T18:08:51Z

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Hasmin - A Haskell CSS Minifier

Hasmin is a CSS minifier written entirely in Haskell. To use it as a library, see below

Aside from the usual techniques (e.g. whitespace removal, color minification, etc.), the idea was to explore new possibilities, by implementing things other minifiers weren't doing, or they were, but not taking full advantage of.

Also, the minifier implements some techniques that do nothing for minified sizes, but attempt to improve post-compression sizes (at least when using DEFLATE, i.e. gzip).

For a list of techniques, see Minification Techniques.

Building

To compile, just run stack build.

Minifier Usage

Hasmin expects a path to the CSS file, and outputs the minified result to stdout.

Every technique is enabled by default, except for:

Escaped character conversions (e.g. converting \2714 to ✔, which can be enabled with --convert-escaped-characters)
Dimension minifications (e.g. converting 12px to 9pt, which can be enabled with --dimension-min, or just -d)

These two are disabled mainly because they are—on average, not always—detrimental for DEFLATE compression. When something needs to be disabled, use the appropriate flag. Not every technique can be toggled yet, but a good amount of them allow it.

Note: there is a problem in Windows when using the --convert-escaped-characters flag to enable the conversion of escaped characters. A workaround is changing the code page, which can be done by running chcp 65001 in the terminal (whether cmd, or cygwin).

Library

The preferable way to use Hasmin as a library is to import Hasmin, as exemplified in the module's documentation. That is currently the only module that is sure to abide by PVP. Most other exposed modules are so because tests need it, and thus definitions there may be changed anytime. In case something internal is needed though, feel free to open an issue about it.

Zopfli Integration

Hasmin uses bindings to Google's Zopfli library, allowing the possibility to compress the result.

Since the output is a gzip file, it can be used for the web. It tipically produces files 3~8% smaller than zlib, at the cost of being around 80 times slower, so it is only a good idea if you don't need compression on the fly.

Zopfli is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.