README.md

dead-styles-shear

Py scripts for identifying and trimming dead style rules from a website directory. Written in python 2.7

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Identify Dead Style Rules

findDeadStyles.py pathToDirectory [ignoreJS]

• recursively search the input directory for html and javascript files to build a list of all selectors being used
• pass ignoreJS to optionally only crawl html files when building used selectors list
• recursively search the input directory for css and scss files to build a list of all style rules
• write output file, deadStyles.css, listing all dead styling rules in input directory

Output:

• deadStyles.css - valid css file containing each unused selector listed on its own line followed by {}

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Trim Dead Style Rules [TODO]

trimStyles.py pathToDirectory [ignoreJS]

• mimics behavior above to generate list of dead style rules, then finds each dead rule in the list and removes it from input directory's css files.