Compress option not doing anything

[travisdahl]

    bless: {
      css: {
        options: {
          compress: true,
          force: true,
          cleanup: true
        },
        files: {
          'css/stylesheets/dev/app.css': 'css/stylesheets/app.css'
        }
      }

The result is no different that when I don't compress it.

[AaronAsAChimp]

Thanks for the bug, the compress option only compresses the css added by bless. This means that if bless doesn't need to split the file, it will remain unchanged. I'll update the documentation to make this more clear.

Can you verify that this is the case for you?

[travisdahl]

It is, in fact splitting, but neither file is any different than when I dont use that option.

[AaronAsAChimp]

It may not be different, the option simply disables adding whitespace after the import statement. After several tests, it appears to work as intended.

If you, or anyone, can provide a test case that proves it is not working as expected it would be huge help.

[travisdahl]

Oh ok, sorry I misunderstood, I was expecting some kind of minification to happen. Remove comments, line breaks, whitespace.

[colinduwe]

I had the same misunderstanding. Does anyone have any recommendations for how best to minify the output? I can minify the first file with grunt-contrib-cssmin but it will still have the @import pointing to the unminified version(s) of the Bless output.

[AaronAsAChimp]

You should minify the CSS first, then bless will point to the correct files.

[jpdevries]

I misunderstood this also

[bjorkblom]

If I minify the css first and then bless it the output will always be unminified.

[yannikmethot]

+1, running grunt-bless on minified css always output unminified css...

[pixeldrew]

+1 I minify first and the output is then unminified.

[pixeldrew]

Looks like blessc since 4.0.0 is expanding minified CSS. This is very annoying as it looks like after you run cssmin on the "chunked" output, cssmin wants to process the imports (if you remove the process import statement it doesn't quite work either)