You can preview the changes in your CSS analysis before pushing the actual CSS to the webhook. This is useful for Pull Requests or other forms of reviewing code before merging and deploying it.

There are currently two ways you can preview the analysis:

Using the Project Wallace CSS Diff Action on GitHub (recommended)
Sending the CSS to the preview webhook and receiving the preview stats and diff in one go

Using the Project Wallace CSS Diff Action on GitHub

This GitHub actions posts your CSS to projectwallace.com, calculates the change between the current state of your project and your PR, and comments the diff in the PR.

Example CSS Diff preview in a GitHub Pull Request Comment

Send CSS to the Preview webhook

If you're not on GitHub, you can manually call the preview endpoint. You need to send the CSS and the webhook will return the new analysis completely and an object with all the differences between the current data on projectwallace.com and the CSS that you sent.

Sending the preview request

curl https://www.projectwallace.com/webhooks/v2/imports/preview?token=YOUR_PROJECT_TOKEN \
  --request POST \
  --header 'Content-Type: text/css' \
  --data 'html { color: #bada55; }'

The preview response

The response consists of 3 parts:

diff: A detailed diff of all metrics
currentStats: The stats as they are on projectwallace.com
previewStats: analysis from the CSS that was sent with the request

{
  "diff": [
    {
      "title": "Filesize (raw bytes)",
      "details": "stylesheet",
      "higherIsBetter": false,
      "aggregate": "sum",
      "key": "stylesheets.size.uncompressed.totalBytes",
      "diff": {
        "oldValue": 45681,
        "newValue": 24,
        "changed": true,
        "diff": {
          "absolute": -45657,
          "relative": -0.999474617455835
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "title": "Max. Complexity Selectors",
      "details": "selectors",
      "aggregate": "list",
      "key": "selectors.complexity.max.selectors",
      "diff": {
        "diff": [
          {
            "value": ".css-ibnbm7-inlineGlow.css-ibnbm7-inlineGlow > svg + span",
            "added": false,
            "removed": true,
            "changed": true
          },
          {
            "value": ".simplebar-track .simplebar-scrollbar.simplebar-visible::before",
            "added": false,
            "removed": true,
            "changed": true
          },
          {
            "value": "html",
            "added": true,
            "removed": false,
            "changed": true
          }
        ],
        "changed": true
      }
    },
    // etc.
  ],
  "previewStats": {
    "stats": {
      "rules.total": 365,
      "rules.empty.total": 0
      // etc.
      // all stats from https://github.com/projectwallace/css-analyzer
    },
    "analyzerVersion": "4.0.3"
  },
  "currentStats": {
    "rules.total": 365,
    "rules.empty.total": 0
      // etc.
      // all stats from https://github.com/projectwallace/css-analyzer
  }
}

Total color duplicates

Further reading