Why don’t we talk about minifying CSS anymore?
May 15, 2024
Minifying your CSS helps improve your website performance. But as developers, we don’t really talk about minifying CSS anymore. Why?
The TL;DR is that the delivery and optimization of CSS have both been improved with modern tech stacks, making it practically a non-issue. The efficient and performant delivery of CSS is largely solved by HTTP/2 and modern compression algorithms, whilst modern front end frameworks take care of the boring optimization jobs such as code-splitting and minification. Gone are the days when setting up a new front end project involved hours of frustrating manual configuration of Grunt files or Gulp files to compile, minify and post-process CSS files.
Source: Why don’t we talk about minifying CSS anymore? | Product Blog • Sentry
Revisiting a long established practice for 2024.