PurifyCSS is not removing font-awesome classes

[Nico Swiatecki]

I'm using PurifyCSS for gulp with the following settings:

return gulp.src([
      `${options.path}/css/**/*.css`,
      `!${options.path}/css/**/*.min.css`,
    ])
      .pipe(purify([
        `${options.path}/js/**/*.js`,
        `!${options.path}/js/prism-components/*.js`,
        './**/devninjas/**/*.hbs',
      ]))
      .pipe(gulp.dest(`${options.path}/css/`));

But this settings don't remove unused font-awesome classes. Do they have an idea what the problem might be?

[Rik Lewis]

Same for me. It removes a lot of them, but there are still many that I don't use (.fa-lg, .fa-2x, etc) that are left behind.

[Thomas Reichling]

Hey, can you try with purifycss-extended? See here!

[Rik Lewis]

I made my own purifycss fork and updated the regular expression to include digits and hypens, and then made my own gulp-purifycss fork to point to my local version of the plugin, and then made gulpfile point to the local version, and I was away.

[Gerry Alvarez]

I had this same issue. Some .fa-* rules that were indeed unused were removed, e.g, .fa-book:before, while others that were unused were not removed, e.g., fa-chevron-circle-down:before.