👩💻 csskit: A High-Performance CSS Toolchain in Rust
The csskit alpha combines CSS parsing, minification, formatting, transformations, and LSP support in a high-performance Rust toolchain.
An alpha version of a new CSS tool written in Rust has been introduced. It’s essentially a complete toolchain: parsing, transformations, minification, formatting, and LSP, all in one. If you work directly with CSS (without heavy bundlers), this looks very interesting. But it’s important to understand that this is an alpha, so it’s still too early for production. Still, it’s definitely worth trying. A particular bonus is the LSP server, which gives you real-time feedback in your IDE: errors, highlighting, semantic tokens, and so on. ⚡️
What’s inside:
- Parser: a spec-compliant CSS parser with a full AST.
- Minifier: aggressive minification for faster asset delivery.
- Formatting: CSS formatting with a consistent style.
- Transformations: transforming modern syntax to support different browsers.
- LSP: language server integration for editors and IDEs.
- Highlighting: syntax highlighting with Semantic Tokens support.
It’s positioned as something like a lightweight alternative to PostCSS/Lightning CSS, but with a focus on performance and native execution (Rust). Let’s see where the project goes; so far, it looks promising 🚀