Fontmin-spider NPM

fontmin-spider

Analyze which fonts are used on the page and eliminate the ones that are not used to get a smaller font file

Install

npm install fontmin-spider

Usage

const { spider, parse } = require('fontmin-spider')

;(async () => {
  const basePath = '/home/site/'
  // Recursively read all html files in the /home/site/ directory
  // default: **/*.html
  await spider({ basePath })


  /* 
    // css
    p {
      font-family: 'fontName';
    }

    // html
    <p>Analyze which fonts are used on the page and eliminate the ones that are not used to get a smaller font file</p>
  */
  const files = ['/home/site/index.html', '/home/site/post/index.html', '/home/site/page/index.html']
  // It only parses, it does not compress
  const fontMaps = parse(basePath, files)
  console.log(fontMaps)
  /*
    {
      fontName: {
        selector: [ 'p' ],
        path: '/home/site/font/font-file.ttf',
        chars: 'Analyzewhicfotsrudpgm'
      }
      ....
    }
  */
})()

API

spider(options)

Crawl the fonts referenced by the specified .html file for compression. matching the text used according to the css selector, compressing on demand

options.basePath

Type: string

Required: true

You can think of it as the root of the website

options.source

Type: string | string[]

See fast-glob for details

options.backup

Type: boolean

Default: true

backup font (font.backup.ttf)

options.reserveText

Type: string | object

Reserved text. For example, when using JavaScript to add text dynamically. the fontmin-spider will not be able to parse the text and you will need to add the reserved text manually

const { spider, parse } = require('fontmin-spider')

;async () => {
  const basePath = '/home/site/'
  // Even if 'ABCDEFG' is not used, 'fontmin-spider' does not eliminate it and remains in the font file
  await spider({ basePath, reserveText: 'ABCDEFG' })

  // Settings for specific fonts only
  /* p {
      font-family: 'fontName';
    } 
  */
  await spider({ basePath, reserveText: { fontName: 'ABCDEFG', fontName2: '1234567890' } })
}