Cloudflare HTML/CSS Minification Alternatives

You're correct that Cloudflare has deprecated their built-in HTML and CSS minification features. Here are some alternative approaches you can implement:

Server-Side Minification

Implement minification directly on your server or build process:

Using Build Tools

• Webpack: Use plugins like html-webpack-plugin and css-minimizer-webpack-plugin
• Gulp: Use gulp-htmlmin and gulp-clean-css
• Grunt: Use grunt-contrib-htmlmin and grunt-contrib-cssmin

Example with Webpack

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const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const CssMinimizerPlugin = require('css-minimizer-webpack-plugin');

module.exports = {
  // ... other webpack config
  optimization: {
    minimize: true,
    minimizer: [
      new CssMinimizerPlugin(),
      // other minimizers like TerserPlugin for JS
    ],
  },
  plugins: [
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
      minify: {
        collapseWhitespace: true,
        removeComments: true,
        removeRedundantAttributes: true,
        removeScriptTypeAttributes: true,
        removeStyleLinkTypeAttributes: true,
        useShortDoctype: true
      }
    })
  ]
};

Cloudflare Workers

You can create a Cloudflare Worker to minify HTML/CSS on the fly:

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addEventListener('fetch', event => {
  event.respondWith(handleRequest(event.request))
})

async function handleRequest(request) {
  // Get the original response
  const response = await fetch(request)
  const contentType = response.headers.get('content-type') || ''
  
  // Only process HTML
  if (contentType.includes('text/html')) {
    let html = await response.text()
    
    // Basic minification (you can use more sophisticated regex)
    html = html.replace(/\s+/g, ' ')
              .replace(/>\s+</g, '><')
              .replace(/<!--.*?-->/g, '')
    
    // Return minified response
    return new Response(html, {
      headers: response.headers
    })
  }
  
  return response
}

Third-Party Services

• Cloudflare APO (Automatic Platform Optimization) - While not specifically for minification, it optimizes delivery
• Netlify or Vercel - Both offer built-in minification options
• CDNs like KeyCDN, BunnyCDN, or StackPath that offer minification features

Local Minification Tools

For one-time or manual minification:

• HTML Minifier: https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier
• Clean CSS: https://github.com/clean-css/clean-css-cli

Implementing one of these approaches should help replace the functionality that Cloudflare previously provided.