I have HTML in a variable and before render it and I want to minify it. I know there are console minifiers such as:
- html-minifier
But I want to minify in code, like this:
var minifier = require ('some-minifier');
var notMinifiedHtml = "<html>...</html>";
var minifiedHtml = minifier(notMinifiedHtml);
But I don't know such some-minifier library...
I have HTML in a variable and before render it and I want to minify it. I know there are console minifiers such as:
- html-minifier
But I want to minify in code, like this:
var minifier = require ('some-minifier');
var notMinifiedHtml = "<html>...</html>";
var minifiedHtml = minifier(notMinifiedHtml);
But I don't know such some-minifier library...
- Why? If you're concerned about transmitting data over the wire, use compression and forget about minification. – Matt Ball Commented Sep 26, 2013 at 3:42
- 1 @MattBall because minified html loads faster on ther browser – Maxim Yefremov Commented Sep 26, 2013 at 3:44
- What types of minification are you after? Whitespace removal would be somewhat easy with regex, but do you want to go further with, say, variable replacement and such? – Ehryk Commented Sep 26, 2013 at 3:45
- 3 @Ehryk You should never process HTML with regex. – Alex W Commented Sep 26, 2013 at 3:47
- 1 @MattBall even if it did take more time to load, that wasn't the question asked, nor was it about all the ways to reduce page load times, nor was it 'suggest doing something else entirely.' – Ehryk Commented Sep 26, 2013 at 4:47
1 Answer
Reset to default 20The module you specified, html-minifier, already does what you're asking for. This is how it's used:
var minify = require('html-minifier').minify;
var input = '<!-- foo --><div>baz</div><!-- bar\n\n moo -->';
var output = minify(input, options);
The options object requires at least one of the boolean flags shown below. If no flags are specified, the minifier will just return the string that was passed in as input.
removeComments
removeCommentsFromCDATA
collapseWhitespace
collapseBooleanAttributes
removeAttributeQuotes
removeRedundantAttributes
useShortDoctype
removeEmptyAttributes
removeOptionalTags
removeEmptyElements
Note that the library parses the input as HTML, not XHTML.