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Minifier projects on GitHub
Shrinking JavaScript and CSS bundle sizes.
As of , the most-starred Minifier projects on GitHub are esbuild (40.1K stars), swc (34.2K stars) and slim (23.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 6 Minifier repositories with 141.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was oxc, with +6 stars in a day.
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17
oxc
oxc-project/oxc · ★ 23.1KOxc — the Oxidation Compiler — is a collection of high-performance tools for JavaScript and TypeScript written in Rust: a parser, linter, formatter, transformer, minifier, and module resolver.
esbuild
evanw/esbuild · ★ 40.1Kesbuild is an extremely fast bundler for the web, written in Go. Its stated goal is to bring about a new era of build tool performance with an easy-to-use modern bundler.
+2swc
swc-project/swc · ★ 34.2KSWC (Speedy Web Compiler) is a super-fast TypeScript/JavaScript compiler written in Rust — a Rust-based platform for the Web.
+1slim
slimtoolkit/slim · ★ 23.4KSlimToolkit (formerly DockerSlim) is a free, open-source CLI toolkit that inspects, optimizes and debugs container images. It can shrink an image by up to 30x without you changing anything in your Dockerfile — and makes the result more secure too.
The all-time top
6 projects · by stars
- 40.1K
#1 · evanw/esbuild
esbuild
esbuild is an extremely fast bundler for the web, written in Go. Its stated goal is to bring about a new era of build tool performance with an easy-to-use modern bundler.
- 34.2K
#2 · swc-project/swcswc
SWC (Speedy Web Compiler) is a super-fast TypeScript/JavaScript compiler written in Rust — a Rust-based platform for the Web.
- 23.4K
#3 · slimtoolkit/slimslim
SlimToolkit (formerly DockerSlim) is a free, open-source CLI toolkit that inspects, optimizes and debugs container images. It can shrink an image by up to 30x without you changing anything in your Dockerfile — and makes the result more secure too.
- 4
oxc
23.1Koxc-project/oxc · RustOxc — the Oxidation Compiler — is a collection of high-performance tools for JavaScript and TypeScript written in Rust: a parser, linter, formatter, transformer, minifier, and module resolver.
- 5

UglifyJS
13.4Kmishoo/UglifyJS · JavaScriptUglifyJS is a toolkit for JavaScript that parses, minifies, compresses, mangles, and beautifies code, mainly used to shrink JS files for production.
- 6
closure-compiler
7.7Kgoogle/closure-compiler · JavaScriptA tool for making JavaScript download and run faster — a true compiler for JavaScript: it compiles JavaScript to better JavaScript, parsing your code, removing dead code and rewriting and minimizing what is left.
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