hugo/docs/content/en/hugo-pipes/minification.md

---
title: Asset minification
description: Hugo Pipes allows the minification of any CSS, JS, JSON, HTML, SVG or XML resource.
date: 2018-07-14
publishdate: 2018-07-14
lastmod: 2018-07-14
categories: [asset management]
keywords: []
menu:
  docs:
    parent: "pipes"
    weight: 50
weight: 50
sections_weight: 50
draft: false
---


Any resource of the aforementioned types can be minifed using `resources.Minify` which takes for argument the resource object.


```go-html-template
{{ $css := resources.Get "css/main.css" }}
{{ $style := $css | resources.Minify }}
```

Note that you can also minify the final HTML output to `/public` by running `hugo --minify`.
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			`title: Asset minification`
			`description: Hugo Pipes allows the minification of any CSS, JS, JSON, HTML, SVG or XML resource.`
			`date: 2018-07-14`
			`publishdate: 2018-07-14`
			`lastmod: 2018-07-14`
			`categories: [asset management]`
			`keywords: []`
			`menu:`
			`docs:`
			`parent: "pipes"`
			`weight: 50`
			`weight: 50`
			`sections_weight: 50`
			`draft: false`
			`---`


			Any resource of the aforementioned types can be minifed using `resources.Minify` which takes for argument the resource object.


			```go-html-template
			`{{ $css := resources.Get "css/main.css" }}`
			`{{ $style := $css \| resources.Minify }}`
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			Note that you can also minify the final HTML output to `/public` by running `hugo --minify`.