minifix

A lightweight and flexible minifier for JavaScript, CSS, and HTML with live file-watching support.

🚀 Features

✅ Minifies JavaScript, CSS, and HTML efficiently
✅ Supports live watching for automatic minification
✅ Configurable options for each file type
✅ Lightweight and easy to use

Powered by:

• Terser (JS Minifier)
• clean-css (CSS Minifier)
• html-minifier-terser (HTML Minifier)

📋 Requirements

Before installing minifix, make sure your environment meets the following requirements:

• Node.js 14+ (recommended 16+)
• NPM 6.14+ (recommended 8+)

📦 Installation

Before installing minifix, consider whether you need a local or global installation:

• A local installation is recommended for project-specific usage, ensuring that each project uses the correct version of minifix.
• A global installation allows you to use minifix across multiple projects system-wide without reinstalling it.

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Local Installation

npm install --save-dev minifix

Global Installation

npm install --global minifix

🚀 Usage

Running Locally

npx minifix

Running Globally

minifix

📌 If minifix.config.mjs does not exist, it will be created automatically.

📂 Supported File Types

minifix supports minification for:

• JavaScript (.js,.mjs,.cjs)
• HTML (.html,.htm)
• CSS (.css)

⚙️ Configuration

Edit the minifix.config.mjs file to define input files, output files, and minification options.

Available Options

• inputs - List of input files
• outputs (optional) - List of output files. If not provided, a default output file will be created in the same directory as the input file with _output_ appended to its name.
• minifyOptions - Minification options for each file type

📌 Refer to the official documentation for minifyOptions:

• JS options
• CSS options
• HTML options

Example Configuration

/* minifix.config.mjs */
export default {
    inputs: ["views/input.html", "assets/css/input.css", "assets/js/input.js"],
    outputs: ["views/index.html", "assets/css/style.css", "assets/js/default.js"],
    minifyOptions: {
        css: {
            format: false
        },
        js: {
            format: {
                preamble: "/** Comment */"
            }
        },
        html: {
            collapseWhitespace: true,
            removeComments: true,
            removeRedundantAttributes: true
        }
    }
};

Contributing

We appreciate any contributions!

If you encounter any issues, please open an issue in our GitHub repository:

➡️ GitHub Repository
➡️ Create a new issue

For feature requests or bug reports, follow these steps:

1. Check the existing issues to avoid duplicates.
2. If the issue is new, create one with a clear description and steps to reproduce.
3. If you’d like to submit code changes, fork the repository and create a pull request.

📜 License

minifix is released under the MIT License.

📫 Support

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out: ramoures@gmail.com