NMFR/optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin

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1133 stars · 57 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Webpack plugin that searches for CSS assets during the Webpack build and optimizes/minimizes them, by default using cssnano. It also solves the CSS duplication problem caused by extract-text-webpack-plugin merging text chunks.

Use cases

• minimize css assets in a webpack build
• remove duplicate css created by extract-text-webpack-plugin
• optimize css with cssnano during bundling
• strip comments from production css bundles
• run a custom css processor on webpack css output

When to choose

• you are on webpack v4 and need css minification in your build
• you need to deduplicate css produced by extract-text-webpack-plugin
• you want to plug a custom css processor into the webpack pipeline

When to avoid

• you use webpack v5 or above - use css-minimizer-webpack-plugin instead
• you use webpack v3 or below - use version 3.2.0 of this plugin instead
• you need actively developed css optimization tooling

Facets

plugin · maturity maintenance

build-tool css-framework web-development frontend developer-tools webpack-plugin css-minification cssnano asset-optimization deprecated-for-webpack5 nodejs web-server

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