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This Astro integration brings compression utilities to your Astro project.

CSS HTML JavaScript Images SVG

Note

astro-compress will not compress your requests, only your statically generated build.

Note

Use astro-compress last in your integration list for the best optimizations.

Installation

There are two ways to add integrations to your project. Letโ€™s try the most convenient option first!

astro add command

Astro includes a CLI tool for adding first party integrations: astro add. This command will:

  1. (Optionally) Install all necessary dependencies and peer dependencies
  2. (Also optionally) Update your astro.config.* file to apply this integration

To install astro-compress, run the following from your project directory and follow the prompts:

# Using NPM
npx astro add astro-compress
# Using Yarn
yarn astro add astro-compress
# Using PNPM
pnpx astro add astro-compress

Install dependencies manually

First, install the astro-compress integration like so:

npm install -D -E astro-compress

Then, apply this integration to your astro.config.* file using the integrations property:

astro.config.ts

import compress from "astro-compress";

export default { integrations: [compress()] };

Getting started

The utility will now automatically compress all your CSS, HTML and JavaScript files in the dist folder.

The following image file types will also be compressed:

  • avci
  • avcs
  • avif
  • avifs
  • gif
  • heic
  • heics
  • heif
  • heifs
  • jfif
  • jif
  • jpe
  • jpeg
  • jpg
  • png
  • raw
  • tiff
  • webp

SVG compression is supported, as well via svgo.

You can override any of the default options from the configurations of:

or disable them entirely:

astro.config.ts

import compress from "astro-compress";

export default {
    integrations: [
        compress({
            css: false,
            html: false,
            img: false,
            js: false,
            svg: false,
        }),
    ],
};

If your path is different than dist be sure to update it accordingly:

astro.config.ts

import compress from "astro-compress";

export default {
    outDir: "./build",
    integrations: [
        compress({
            path: "./build",
        }),
    ],
};

You can add multiple paths to compress by specifying an array as the path variable.

astro.config.ts

import compress from "astro-compress";

export default {
    integrations: [
        compress({
            path: ["./build", "./dist"],
        }),
    ],
};

You can also provide a map of paths for different input output directories.

astro.config.ts

import compress from "astro-compress";

export default {
    integrations: [
        compress({
            path: new Map([["./input", "./output"]]),
        }),
    ],
};

Or an array of the two.

astro.config.ts

import compress from "astro-compress";

export default {
    integrations: [
        compress({
            path: [
                // compress dist
                "./dist",

                // compress dist one more time into a different directory
                new Map([["./dist", "./dist-compressed"]]),
            ],
        }),
    ],
};

You can provide a filter to exclude files in your build. A filter can be an array of regexes or a single match. You can use functions, as well to match on file names.

astro.config.ts

import compress from "astro-compress";

export default {
    integrations: [
        compress({
            exclude: [
                "my-awesome.png",
                (file: string) =>
                    file === "./dist/img/favicon/safari-pinned-tab.svg",
            ],
        }),
    ],
};

Set logger to 0 if you do not want to see debug messages. Default is 2.

astro.config.ts

import compress from "astro-compress";

export default {
    integrations: [
        compress({
            logger: 0,
        }),
    ],
};

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for a history of changes to this integration.

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