HyperCrush

Crushes HTML or SVG code. Code can be raw markup, or it can be Javascript that happens to contain quoted markup within. It should be used in conjunction with your html-minifier and your JS minifier/terser. This module doesn't do everything, it just squeezes a bit more out.

Why? Standard minifiers don't quite finesse like this!

Input:

<div id="myId" class="big blue" data-val="0.2"> Some <em> "text" here </em> </div>

Output:

<div id=myId class="big blue"data-val=.2>Some <em>"text" here</em></div>

👉 NOTE THE SAVINGS!!! ✔️

Gotcha: Now you can't rely on whitespace between tags for styling.

🔥 Try an online demo

(If you'd like to optimize and deduplicate multiple SVG files see JCrush SVG)

Stand-alone usage

See online demo link above, or download project zip file and open index.html to use the GUI.

Installation

This is a Node.JS module available from the Node Package Manager (NPM).

https://www.npmjs.com/package/hypercrush

Here's the command to download and install from NPM:

npm install hypercrush -S

or with Yarn:

yarn add hypercrush

Usage

Gulp Integration

In your gulpfile.mjs, use HyperCrush as a Gulp plugin:

Step 1: Import HyperCrush

import hypercrush from 'hypercrush';

Step 2: Add HyperCrush to your minification tasks

For Javascript that contains HTML in strings, add the default pass BEFORE your terser/minifier, and a whitespace pass AFTER like so:

    .pipe(hypercrush())
    .pipe(terser({ ecma: 7, mangle: { toplevel: true } }))
    .pipe(hypercrush('whitespace'))

For plain HTML, add an 'all` pass AFTER your minifier:

    .pipe(htmlmin({ collapseWhitespace: true }))
    .pipe(hypercrush('all'))

For SVG do an svg pass:

gulp.task('svg', function () {
  return gulp.src('./src/img/svg/*.svg')
    .pipe(hypercrush('svg'))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./img/svg'));
});

Note: The SVG code will now only work embeded into the HTML DOM, not in an IMG tag or as a stand-alone file.

mode Parameter

The mode parameter controls the optimizations applied to the input files. It can be set to 'default', 'whitespace', or 'all'. There is also a bonus 'svg' mode available.

Available Modes

default (or omitted)

• Removes leading zero from decimal numbers in attributes (0.5 → .5).
• Eliminates unnecessary spaces between tags (> < → ><). Gotcha: Can't rely on whitespace between tags for styling!
• Removes spaces before > in tags.
• Strips unnecessary quotes from attribute values when safe (class="foo" → class=foo).
• Removes unnecessary spaces between attributes.
• Removes extra spaces at the end of self-closing tags.

whitespace

• Collapses multiple spaces into a single space.
• Trims leading and trailing spaces.

all

• Includes all optimizations from whitespace and default.

svg

• Specific optimizations for extracting the SVG tag, stripping some attrs, and crushing the markup. Not a general-purpose SVG crusher, because the file won't work as normal and must be embeded in a HTML DOM.

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Note

For more Javascript code compression check out JCrush. For CSS compression check out Gulp JCrush CSS.

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Contributing

https://github.com/braksator/hypercrush

In lieu of a formal style guide, take care to maintain the existing coding style.