usemin

API version of usemin. For purists, those who don't use build tools like Grunt and Gulp, but just use node as their build tool.

Getting started

Install with npm:

npm install usemin

CLI

usemin-cli - Command line interface for this module.

API

var usemin = require('usemin');

usemin(filepath, dest, [opts])

Replaces references to non-optimized scripts or stylesheets into a set of HTML files (or any templates/views).

Parameters:

(string) filepath - HTML input file path.

(string) dest - Directory for where the optimized scripts and stylesheets should go.

(object) opts Optional - See below for the available options.

Returns:

(string) The content of the final HTML file

options:

var defaults = {
	output: false, // HTML output path. If false, it will be printed to the console (string)
	configFile: false, // config file path for UglifyJS, CleanCSS and HTML minifier (string)
	config: false, // UglifyJS, CleanCSS and HTML minifier configs,
	               // similar format to the config file (object)
	htmlmin: false, // Whether to minify the input HTML file (Boolean)
	noprocess: false, // Do not process files, just replace references (Boolean)
	removeLivereload: false, // Remove livereload script (Boolean)
};

Examples

var html = usemin('src/index.html', 'dist');
usemin('src/index.html', 'dist', {
	output: 'dist/index.html',
	htmlmin: true,
	removeLivereload: true,
});

usemin.getBlocks(filepath, content, removeLivereload)

Extract information from a HTML input file to be processed later. This does not process any files (i.e., it doesn't perform uglify or minify).

Parameters:

(string) filepath - HTML input file path.

(string) content - Content of the HTML file as a string. (The reason for this is because the main usemin function uses this content multiple times, so to prevent the file being read multiples times it's simply cached into a variable to be passed into these API functions.)

(boolean) removeLivereload - Whether to also extract livereload script.

Returns:

(object) An object of the following form:

[
	{
		async: false,
		defer: false,
		type: 'css',
		dest: 'css/main.css',
		indent: '\t',
		searchPath: ['',],
		src: [
		   inputsDir + 'css/foo.css',
		   inputsDir + 'css/bar.css',
		],
		raw: [
		   '\t<!-- build:css css/main.css -->',
		   '\t<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/foo.css">',
		   '\t<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/bar.css">',
		   '\t<!-- endbuild -->',
		],
	},
]

usemin.getConfig(configFile, configOverride)

Returns configurations object for UglifyJS, CleanCSS and HTML minifier from a config file.

Parameters:

(string) configFile - Config file path. (.js extension can be omitted.)

(object) configOverride - Config object to override any previously set configs.

returns:

(object) An object of the following form:

{
	uglifyjs: {
	},
	cleancss: {
	},
	htmlminifier: {
		removeComments: true,
		collapseWhitespace: true,
		removeEmptyAttributes: true,
		removeScriptTypeAttributes: true,
		removeStyleLinkTypeAttributes: true,
		minifyJS: true,
		minifyCSS: true,
	},
}

usemin.processBlocks(blocks, dest, config)

Uglify javascripts and CSS for a supplied block object from the usemin.getBlocks function.

Parameters:

(object[]) blocks - Blocks from the usemin.getBlocks function.

(string) dest - Directory for where the optimized scripts and stylesheets should go.

(object) config - Configuration object for UglifyJS, cleanCSS and HTML minifier.

Returns:

(boolean) Throws error, otherwise true.

usemin.getHtml(content, blocks, htmlmin, config)

Returns the HTML with replaced references to non-optimized scripts or stylesheets.

Parameters:

(string) content - Content of the HTML file as a string. (The reason for this is because the main usemin function uses this content multiple times, so to prevent the file being read multiples times it's simply cached into a variable to be passed into these API functions.)

(object[]) blocks - Blocks from the usemin.getBlocks function.

(boolean) htmlmin - Whether to also minify the HTML.

(object) config - Configuration object for UglifyJS, cleanCSS and HTML minifier.

Returns:

(string) The content of the final HTML file

Example HTML

Blocks

Blocks are expressed as:

<!-- build:<pipelineId>(alternate search path) <path> -->
... HTML Markup, list of script / link tags.
<!-- endbuild -->

• pipelineId: pipeline id for options or remove to remove a section
• alternate search path: (optional) By default the input files are relative to the treated file. Alternate search path allows one to change that
• path: the file path of the optimized file, the target output

<!-- build:css css/main.js -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/modules.css">
<!-- endbuild -->

<!-- build:js js/main.js -->
<script src="js/app.js"></script>
<script src="js/controllers.js"></script>
<!-- endbuild -->

<!-- build:js js/main.js -->
<script defer async src="js/app.js"></script>
<script defer async src="js/controllers.js"></script>
<!-- endbuild -->

<!-- build:remove -->
<script src="js/app.js"></script>
<script src="js/controllers.js"></script>
<!-- endbuild -->

<script>document.write('<script src="http://' + (location.host || 'localhost').split(':')[0] + ':35729/livereload.js?snipver=1"></' + 'script>')</script>

Running the command with --rmlr true will output:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.js">
<script src="js/main.js"></script>
<script defer async src="js/main.js"></script>

Alternate search path

<!-- build:js(js) js/main.js -->
<script defer async src="app.js"></script>
<script defer async src="controllers.js"></script>
<!-- endbuild -->

<!-- build:js(js,.tmp) js/main.js -->
<script defer async src="app.js"></script>
<script defer async src="controllers.js"></script>
<!-- endbuild -->

Config file

Please check the relevant documentations for the available options: UglifyJS, CleanCSS and HTML minifier.

module.exports = {
	uglifyjs: {
		// ... UglifyJS API options
	},
	cleancss: {
		// ... CleanCSS API options
	},
	htmlminifier: {
		// ... HTML minifier API options
	}
}

License

MIT license