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Go minifiers for web formats

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The maintainers of tdewolff/minify usually reply to a pull request within 1 day. 2 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

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Open beginner issues
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Indexed issues
37
Avg merge
2d 4h
Merged PRs (30d)
10
Dominant language
Go
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Oct 9, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 10, 2026
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How to contribute to tdewolff/minify

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. It ships a Dockerfile or Docker Compose file, so you can run it without installing its whole toolchain.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
  4. Pick one of the 2 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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  • Unable to run minify 2.24.15 on DHI Docker images (permission denied on cpu)
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

    tdewolff/minify#1017 · 1 comment ·

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  • SVG minification corrupts output when unicode attribute contains 4-byte UTF-8 characters
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tdewolff/minify#917 · 2 comments ·

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  • Include version information in Windows exe
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tdewolff/minify#911 · 1 comment ·

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  • Minify code wich contain backtick (`) as delimiter issue
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tdewolff/minify#892 · 1 comment ·

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  • requesting for github workflow
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    tdewolff/minify#873 ·

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  • %-sign in html- or js-file
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 43/100

    tdewolff/minify#835 · 1 comment ·

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  • CSS: hsl() & rgb() doesn't minify when inside of custom properties
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    tdewolff/minify#830 ·

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  • How to minify golang text/template (JS) without parsing
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

    tdewolff/minify#815 · 5 comments ·

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  • The CLI is missing the TemplateDelims option, which should support specifying multiple TemplateDelims.
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    tdewolff/minify#811 · 1 comment ·

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  • More low-hanging transformations
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    tdewolff/minify#794 · 9 comments ·

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  • JS minify fails on import attributes
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 49/100

    tdewolff/minify#786 ·

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  • js: minimise arguments passed to querySelector/querySelectorAll
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    tdewolff/minify#785 · 2 comments ·

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  • css: Recursively minify calc()
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 53/100

    tdewolff/minify#784 · 8 comments ·

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  • Replace table.go with golang's html#UnescapeString
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 43/100

    tdewolff/minify#782 · 2 comments ·

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  • tests: test rendering of minified vs original content in browser?
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    tdewolff/minify#769 ·

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  • Create a command line option to disable JS: shorten true, false, and undefined to !0, !1 and void 0
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    tdewolff/minify#749 · 1 comment ·

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  • css: Whitespace between values isn't collapsed
    May be free again Open
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tdewolff/minify#740 · 1 comment ·

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  • Add arm64 builds for node package
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 44/100

    tdewolff/minify#733 ·

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  • `npm i @tdewolff/minify` fails on Windows
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

    tdewolff/minify#727 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Can you also support minify a markdown?
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    tdewolff/minify#597 ·

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  • node-gyp-build Environmental dependency issues
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tdewolff/minify#578 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Use ESM or CommonJS import for JS binding
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    tdewolff/minify#550 ·

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  • JS: simplify static boolean expressions
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tdewolff/minify#548 · 1 comment ·

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  • Python binding hangs in forked process
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    tdewolff/minify#535 · 7 comments ·

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  • JS binding on Windows says error with module doesn't self-register
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    tdewolff/minify#520 · 1 comment ·

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  • JS binding segfaults in worker thread
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    tdewolff/minify#518 · 11 comments ·

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  • Format instead of minify
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    tdewolff/minify#458 · 10 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Improve perfect hashing
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    low priority

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

    tdewolff/minify#411 ·

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  • Use jump tables instead of switch statements
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    low priority

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tdewolff/minify#410 · 1 reaction ·

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  • Experiment with SIMD instructions to parse 32 bytes at a time
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    low priority

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    tdewolff/minify#409 ·

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  • Planned improvements
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

    tdewolff/minify#234 · 4 reactions ·

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  • JS/CSS: source maps
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    low priority

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tdewolff/minify#25 · 6 comments · 16 reactions ·

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  • HTML: Lacks go action support
    Possibly taken Open
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    tdewolff/minify#976 · 2 comments ·

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  • CSS: support scope at-rules
    Possibly taken Open
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    tdewolff/minify#968 ·

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