Get-critical-css NPM

get-critical-css

extract critical css from website(s)

Features

Configuration based
Support for multiple bundles
CLI
Uses Chrome takeCoverageDelta which is very accurate
Gets all your responsive CSS rules, by supporting different device profiles
Post processes the CSS for you
Works out of the box with leajs and leajs-spa-router

Install

npm install --save get-critical-css

Usage

# terminal
get-critical-css --help
# usage: get-critical-css (config file)

# config file is optional and defaults to "critical-css.config.[js|json|coffee|ts]"
# in "build/" and "/"

critical-css.config

Read by read-conf, from ./ or ./build/ by default.

// ./build/critical-css.config.js
module.exports = {

  // https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
  // type: Array
  chromeFlags: ["--no-first-run","--disable-translate","--disable-background-networking","--disable-extensions","--disable-sync","--metrics-recording-only","--disable-default-apps","--disable-gpu","--headless"],

  // Chrome Debugging Protocol port to use
  chromePort: 9222, // Number

  // Compress uncritical css
  compress: true, // Boolean

  // Wait after each navigation after frameStoppedLoading event for rendering
  delay: 200, // Number

  // type: Object
  files: {

    // Filename used to write critical css
    critical: "_critical", // String

    // Filename used to write uncritical css
    uncritical: "_uncritical", // String

  },

  // Output folder
  folder: "./app_build", // String

  // Hash uncritical css
  hash: true, // Boolean

  // Where the website is hosted
  // Default: localhost:8080
  host: null, // String

  // Generates a critical/uncritical pair for each $item
  // $item ([Object, Array, String]) Options for one critical/uncritical pair
  // $item.routes ([Array, String]) Routes that will be used, can be a shorthand for items.$item.routes.$item
  // $item.routes.$item (String) Route to use. E.g. '/index' >> localhost:8080/index
  // $item.profiles (Array) Overwrites default profiles option
  // $item.folder (String) Overwrites default folder option
  // $item.files (Object)
  // $item.files.critical (String) Overwrites default files.critical option
  // $item.files.uncritical (String) Overwrites default files.uncritical option
  // $item.hash (Boolean) Overwrites default hash option
  // $item.compress (Boolean) Overwrites default compressoption
  items: null, // Array

  // Minify CSS
  // Default: Strip insignificant whitespace
  minify: null, // [Boolean, Function]

  // Device emulation: https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/tot/Emulation#method-setDeviceMetricsOverride
  // type: Array
  // $item (Object)
  // $item.width (Number)
  // $item.height (Number)
  // $item.mobile (Boolean)
  profiles: [{"width":2560,"height":1440},{"width":1280,"height":1280},{"width":720,"height":1280,"mobile":true},{"width":400,"height":800,"mobile":true}],

  // Async function which should be used to start up the webserver
  startUp: null, // Function

  // …

}

Compress

get-critical-css compresses the uncritical css with Node zlib by default.

You can also use zopfli and/or brotli compression by installing the corresponding packages:

npm install --save node-zopfli # to use zopfli instead of `zlib`
npm install --save iltorb # to additionally use brotli

Hash

For cache invalidation the uncritical css is hashed by default. Two files will be output:

${hash}.css will contain the uncritical css
${files.uncritical}.css will contain the hashed filename: ${hash}.css

How to use the generated files

The critical css should be inlined in your html file, while the uncritical should be lazy linked, with a fallback for noscript environments. There are several techniques get the generated CSS/files into your html, e.g. a template language like pug.js

<head>
  …
  <style type='text/css'>${criticalCSS}</style>
  <noscript>
    <link rel='stylesheet' href='${uncriticalFile}'></link>
  </noscript>
  <script>
    window.addEventListener("load", function(){
      var l = document.createElement("link")
      l.type = "text/css"
      l.rel = "stylesheet"
      l.href = "${uncriticalFile}"
      document.head.appendChild(l)
    }, false)
  </script>
  …
</head>

License

critical css critical chrome remote interface chrome headless

chrome-launcher chrome-remote-interface coverage-delta-parser fs-extra read-conf

@infinitebrahmanuniverse/nolb-get-c @everything-registry/sub-chunk-1750 holistic-router-criticalcss

0.2.0

6 years ago

0.1.1

7 years ago

0.1.0

7 years ago