How To Install node-mini-css-extract-plugin on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-mini-css-extract-plugin
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is node-mini-css-extract-plugin
node-mini-css-extract-plugin is:
This plugin extracts CSS into separate files. It creates a CSS file per JS file which contains CSS. It supports On-Demand-Loading of CSS and SourceMaps.
It builds on top of a new webpack v4 feature (module types) and requires webpack 4 to work.
Compared to the extract-text-webpack-plugin:
- Async loading
- No duplicate compilation (performance)
- Easier to use
- Specific to CSS
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-mini-css-extract-plugin
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install node-mini-css-extract-plugin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install node-mini-css-extract-plugin
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-mini-css-extract-plugin
Install node-mini-css-extract-plugin Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-mini-css-extract-plugin
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-mini-css-extract-plugin
Install node-mini-css-extract-plugin Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install node-mini-css-extract-plugin
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-mini-css-extract-plugin
How To Uninstall node-mini-css-extract-plugin on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the node-mini-css-extract-plugin
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-mini-css-extract-plugin
Uninstall node-mini-css-extract-plugin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-mini-css-extract-plugin
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-mini-css-extract-plugin
Remove node-mini-css-extract-plugin Configurations and Data
To remove node-mini-css-extract-plugin
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-mini-css-extract-plugin
Remove node-mini-css-extract-plugin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-mini-css-extract-plugin
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-mini-css-extract-plugin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-mini-css-extract-plugin
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.