Here’s the thing about “unused CSS” tools
There are a lot of tools that aim to help you remove "unused CSS" from your project. Never a week goes by that I don't see a tool for this being shared or promoted. It must strike some kind of perfect...
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I recently wrote Here’s the thing about "unused CSS" tools, where I tried to enumerate all the challenges any tool would have in finding truly "unused" CSS. The overarching idea is that CSS selectors...
View ArticleA Better Approach for Using Purgecss with Tailwind
Greg Kohn looks at how to use Purgecss — a tool that helps remove unused styles — and Tailwind — a utility-based CSS framework — and why we might want to pair these tools together: Tailwind, by...
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How Do You Remove Unused CSS From a Site?
Here's what I'd like you to know upfront: this is a hard problem. If you've landed here because you're hoping to be pointed at a tool you can run that tells you exactly what CSS you can delete from...
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Tools for Auditing CSS
Auditing CSS is not a common task in a developer’s everyday life, but sometimes you just have to do it. Maybe it’s part of a performance review to identify critical CSS and reduce unused selectors....
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Detect Unused Classes in… HTML
Usually, when “unused” comes up in conversation regarding CSS, it’s about removing chunks of CSS that are not used in your site or, at least, the styles not currently in use on a specific page. The...
View Article“We had 90% unused CSS because everybody was afraid to touch the old stuff”
Over at the JS Party podcast: [Kend C. Dodds]: […] ask anybody who’s done regular, old CSS and they’ll tell you that “I don’t know if it’s okay for me to change this, so I’m gonna duplicate it.” And...
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An Eleventy Starter with Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js
When I decided to try to base my current personal website on Eleventy, I didn’t want to reinvent the wheel: I tested all the Eleventy starters built with Tailwind CSS that I could find in Starter...
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“Just in Time” CSS
I believe acss.io is the first usage of “Atomic CSS” where the point of it is to be a compiler. You write CSS like this: <div class="C(#333) P(20px)"> text </div> And it will generate CSS...
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Using the CSS Me Not Bookmarklet to See (and Disable) CSS Files
Stoyan is absolutely correct. As much as we all love CSS, it’s still an important player in how websites load and using less of it is a good thing. He has a neat new bookmarklet called CSS Me Not to...
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