critic-py

critic is a neat pure-python tool for preparing your static files for deployment

Description

critic was legitimately made out of boredom. Considering my main project at the time was failing, and I had a number of restrictions that finally clamped down on it and made it impossible to use it. So I decided to make something else, to help with issues that might've caused the original problem. And I really wanted to make a CLI tool lmao

critic currently only comes with a minifier, but there are plans for static compression, and analysis. It's mainly meant to be used in a CI environment, because of the destructive potential, but certain functions can be used without requiring a search on how to revert to a previous commit on StackOverflow

Installation

use a package manager like pip to install critic. This assumes you have pip, if not you can check out a guide by python for installing pip onto your machine

pip install critic-py

Also, this is a package that relies only on the python stdlib, so no need to worry about extensive dependencies!

Usage

Currently, you can only minify CSS, and even then, it's lacking a lot of features. But, it handles nested CS, and I love nested CSS! ❤️

To use it, just type in:

critic minify css

Roadmap

I've got big dreams for this project. Not sure how many of them I'll reach, but I can at least get disappointed in myself when I add yet another feature out of boredom before I've completed one that's been on here since forever

• CSS Parser
• CSS Minification
  • Remove comments
  • Remove unnecessary whitespace
  • Combining duplicate rules
  • Combining selectors with duplicate declarations
  • Leading zeros, and trailing units (for things like 0.5px to .5px, and 0px to 0 respectively)
• Documentation
• Tests for the CLI (With pytest!)
• HTML Parser
• HTML Minification
  • Remove Comments
  • Remove unnecessary whitespace
  • Others I haven't thought of yet
• JS Parsser
• JS Minification
  • JS Mangling
  • Sourcemaps
  • Remove unnecessary whitespace
  • Insert semicolons where needed to prevent JS Automatic Semicolon Insertion

Contributing

Check out the Code of Conduct and Contributing guidlines when you want to contribute! For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss you would like to change.

Also, update tests as appropriate

License

MIT