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cssnano
For documentation, please see the following links:
- Repository: https://github.com/cssnano/cssnano
- Website: http://cssnano.github.io/cssnano
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A modular minifier, built on top of the PostCSS ecosystem.
The npm package cssnano receives a total of 6,175,326 weekly downloads. As such, cssnano popularity was classified as popular.
We found that cssnano demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 8 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 29 Oct 2025
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