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William Mead
9,937 PointsUse npm to minify and concatenate CSS files?
Is there something similar to uglify-js for CSS? Searching the NPM site has revealed lots of tools such as clean-css for minifying and concatenating CSS files, but they seem to all be intended for use inside your node website, or some of them have build tool versions for gulp or grunt, but not just for using npm as a simple build tool.
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atoniolo
9,216 PointsWilliam Mead Another package you might want to look into is webpack.js, gulp.js, and browserify.js. These packages compile your whole project and bundle all of your assets to minimize and concatenate all scripts, code, minifying images, etc. If you need to you can even just minify your .sass and .css with it.
William Mead
9,937 PointsYes, I have used Gulp, but I was looking for a solution for smaller projects where a full set up for gulp is not necessary, kinda in line with what this lesson is all about. Thank you Atoniolo.
William Mead
9,937 PointsWilliam Mead
9,937 PointsNever mind. I answered my own question. clean-css has clean-css-cli which can be installed instead of clean-css with install clean-css-cli --save-dev. Then you can add something like:
"cleancss": "cleancss -o dist/allstyles.min.css flexslider.css styles.css"into your script section of your package.js file and it will take the two stylesheets, flexslider.css and styles.css, concatenate them in that order, and then minify them into a big chunk of ugly code. Works perfectly.