{"id":1733,"date":"2019-12-30T10:59:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T09:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2019-12-30T11:48:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T10:48:05","slug":"automatically-minify-css-with-phpstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/en\/2019\/12\/30\/automatically-minify-css-with-phpstorm\/","title":{"rendered":"Minify CSS with PhpStorm automatically"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Installation guide for PhpStorm 2019.3.1 to minify CSS files automatically after editing using the command line interface for CSSO<\/a> as a file watcher. You could also use yuicompressor<\/a> instead, but version 2.4.8 chokes on CSS @keyframes rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Install and integrate Node.js into PhpStorm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In  case you have not already done so, download and install Node.js<\/a> with the package manager npm<\/a> and integrate both into PhpStorm. See my post on Use JSDoc 3 and PhpStorm to generate JavaScript documentation<\/a> for more detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Install the command line interface for CSSO<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For some reason, the command line interface for CSSO<\/a> is not available via PhpStorm’s npm integration. Install it via the console:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$ npm install -g csso-cli<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Setup the file watcher for csso-cli<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Press Ctrl + Alt + S to bring the Settings window up in PhpStorm, select File Watchers under Tools, then click the + icon and choose the CSSO CSS Optimizer template:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Screenshot of PhpStorm’s File Watchers settings
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PhpStorm will prefill all the necessary information. Make sure the Program points to your installed csso-cli. In case the CSSO template was missing, just select <custom> and fill in the following information into the fields:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Screenshot of PhpStorm’s New Watcher Dialog<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
That’s all there is. Every time you change a CSS file now, a minified version is created automatically. If you want to force the file watcher, you can bring it up by pressing: Ctrl + Shift + A, then start typing “run file watcher”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Installation guide for PhpStorm 2019.3.1 to minify CSS files automatically after editing using the command line interface for CSSO as a file watcher. You could also use yuicompressor instead, but version 2.4.8 chokes on CSS @keyframes rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cascading-style-sheets-css","tag-phpstorm","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}