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TIL: Minifying the output HTML of a Svelte build is a bad idea 🤔 I noticed HEAD elements were getting duplicated and I couldn't figure out why. Turns out Svelte actually uses comments in the markup to handle updates without duplication! So I broke it by removing them 😅 github.com/sveltejs/sve...

github.comDuplicate `head` elements occur when html comments are stripped · Issue #8112 · sveltejs/svelteDescribe the bug The solution to the duplicate content svelte:head element bug (and also this one) requires HTML comments to be present in order to function correctly. Many minification tools strip...
Hector
@hctr.dev

The Github issue mentions turning off Cloudflare auto minify, but I believe that has been deprecated 🤔 In my case it was my own fault - I added a build step to minify the HTML back when I was using 11ty and I kept it after the rewrite to Svelte. I never thought it would be an issue 🤷

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