Compressor(3pm)

💅 Compressor(3pm) — like, the manual page, but make it cute

okay bestie, so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and it's all about CSS::Compressor. Pull up a chair, grab a boba, we're doing this. 🧋

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✨ NAME ✨

CSS::Compressor — a Perl extension for CSS minification, and yes it does exactly what it says on the tin. 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

the whole vibe in four lines, no notes:

use CSS::Compressor qw( css_compress );
...
my $small = css_compress $css;

like… you import one function, you feed it css, you get tiny css back. it's giving efficiency. 🔥

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So this module is a Perl implementation of the CSS parts of Yahoo! YUIcompressor. Not the JS parts, not the whole thing — the CSS parts, specifically. Periodt.

And why, you ask? Because people needed to produce minified css on the fly using Perl-based backend systems. That's it, that's the origin story. Lowkey iconic. 👑

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🌸 FUNCTIONS 🌸

css_compress( $source )

Takes the stylesheet source, minifies it, and returns the result string. That's the entire job. She does one thing and she does it well. 💅

• $source — the stylesheet source you're handing over

and what comes back? the minified result, as a string. slay.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• <https://github.com/YUICompressor-NET/YUICompressor.NET> — the YUIcompressor project homepage
• <https://github.com/yui/yuicompressor> — the YUIcompressor source repository
• CSS::Packer — an alternative, Perl-based CSS compressor (the other girlies in the game, we love them, no competition here 🫶)

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🎀 ACKNOWLEDGMENT 🎀

Okay so the lore: this module was originally developed for Booking.com. Then, with approval from Booking.com, it got generalized and put on CPAN — and the author would like to express his gratitude for that. Genuinely so sweet of them. 😭💖

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Simon Bertrang, <janus@cpan.org>

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⭐ COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE ⭐

Copyright (C) 2012 by Simon Bertrang

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.12.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

bestie, quick vibe check: that license bit is real and you should actually read it, not just scroll past it. it's your legal permission slip. 🙈

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and that's the whole page!! perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-12-12 — mwah, go compress something, you've got this 💜✨