cssnano
Modular CSS minifier built on PostCSS for optimized stylesheets.
Linting and formatting npm MIT
Used in agent projects
33
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in linting and formatting
#23 of 40
by use in those projects
Downloads
17.8M
npm, last 7 days, cssnano
GitHub stars
4,978
last push Oct 10, 2026
How cssnano is used
cssnano is a dependency in 33 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #23 of 40 in linting and formatting. The most used alternative there is ESLint. Projects that use it most often also use Prettier (57.6%), Tailwind CSS (75.8%), ESLint (72.7%).
Often used with cssnano
| Prettier | 57.6% of cssnano projects · 3.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| Tailwind CSS | 75.8% of cssnano projects · 2.2× more than average |
| ESLint | 72.7% of cssnano projects · 1.9× more than average |
| Testing Library | 27.3% of cssnano projects · 3.8× more than average |
| rimraf | 24.2% of cssnano projects · 13.4× more than average |
| stylelint | 24.2% of cssnano projects · 22.0× more than average |
| Husky | 24.2% of cssnano projects · 3.9× more than average |
| jsdom | 21.2% of cssnano projects · 4.0× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list cssnano as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install cssnano |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (22), Next.js (6), Python (3), PHP (1) |
| Example projects | zkoss/zk, mimikim/harvest-moon-phaser3-game, vickylance/phaser3-parcel-ts-starter |
Alternatives to cssnano
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESLint npm Linter that finds and fixes JavaScript code patterns based on AST analysis. |
4,833 (38.1%) | 162M | 27.6K | MIT |
| Prettier npm Opinionated code formatter for JavaScript, TypeScript, and related languages. |
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| oxlint npm Fast JavaScript linter written in Rust with zero-config defaults. |
206 (1.6%) | 25.7M | 23K | MIT |
| Knip npm Find and fix unused dependencies, exports and files in TypeScript/JavaScript projects. |
150 (1.2%) | 17.5M | 12.4K | ISC |
| stylelint npm Linter that finds and fixes CSS errors and enforces code style conventions. |
140 (1.1%) | 10.8M | 11.5K | MIT |
| oxfmt npm Fast JavaScript formatter from the Oxc compiler project. |
125 (1.0%) | 16.3M | 23K | MIT |
| ESLint Import Resolver TypeScript npm ESLint plugin resolver adding TypeScript support to import/export linting. |
119 (0.9%) | 48.8M | 825 | ISC |