Anyone know of a good html minifier that works well with cotton?

[ra-dave]

I'm on the search for a minifier to, at a minimum, remove whitespace and comments from the template .html files.

[wrabit]

@ra-dave did you look at https://github.com/cobrateam/django-htmlmin ? Seems like a decent choice to try.

Issues are somewhat stale.

Try https://github.com/adamchainz/django-minify-html instead, it's more active.

[ra-dave]

I've evaluated all the top packages and haven't found one yet that doesn't have an issue because of django's complex templating. At least I found a decent inline js compressor (django-compressor).

Would still like to find a good whitespace reduction solution as that would achieve a high level of reduction while (presumably) being pretty safe.

[mattbha]

Can you elaborate on the desire/usecase/benchmarks? In my experience I ignore minification and just let gzip handle compression, which has always seemed to work fine and be completely stable.

I think adding minification might optimize bytes over the network slightly, while adding a little extra CPU server-side. And of course an additional complexity in the pipeline via the plugin itself.

I could see comment removal being useful. That would allow us to put more comments in our templates without fear of it appearing in the source -- but even a component that is repeated 100 times will have any comments compressed with gzip.

Interesting idea

[mattbha]

Keep in mind, if you structure your comments

{# like this #} django will automatically remove them during rendering.