Round-up post If you post something new in this thread, edit this post to link to yours. Ant apply task (using YUI Compressor) Custom YUI Compressor Ant task Maven YUI Compressor plugin Granule (for JSP, JSF, Grails, Ant) Ant macros for Google Closure compiler wro4j (Maven, servlet filters, plain Java, etc) ant-yui-compressor (ant task for … Read more
UglifyJS2, used by the jQuery project.
Very simple to test. I took your js, put them in different files and ran gzip -9 on them. Here’s the result. This was done on a WinXP machine running Cygwin and gzip 1.3.12. -rwx—— 1 xxxxxxxx mkgroup-l-d 88 Apr 30 09:17 expanded.js.gz -rwx—— 1 xxxxxxxx mkgroup-l-d 81 Apr 30 09:18 minified.js.gz Here’s a further … Read more
CSS and Javascript Consider the following link to minify Javascript/CSS files: https://github.com/mrclay/minify HTML Tell Apache to deliver HTML with GZip – this generally reduces the response size by about 70%. (If you use Apache, the module configuring gzip depends on your version: Apache 1.3 uses mod_gzip while Apache 2.x uses mod_deflate.) Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Content-Encoding: … Read more
Quick answer On src, you can always specify files to ignore using “!”. Example (you want to exclude all *.min.js files on your js folder and subfolder: gulp.src([‘js/**/*.js’, ‘!js/**/*.min.js’]) You can do it as well for individual files. Expanded answer: Extracted from gulp documentation: gulp.src(globs[, options]) Emits files matching provided glob or an array of … Read more
sass –watch a.scss:a.css –style compressed Consult the documentation for updates: https://sass-lang.com/guide https://sass-lang.com/documentation/cli/dart-sass#style
The YUI Compressor is fantastic. It works on JavaScript and CSS. Check it out.
They are both the same functionally but the .min one has all unnecessary characters removed in order to make the file size smaller. Just to point out as well, you are better using the minified version (.min) for your live environment as Google are now checking on page loading times. Having all your JS file … Read more
You can use this : http://jsbeautifier.org/ But it depends on the minify method you are using, this one only formats the code, it doesn’t change variable names, nor uncompress base62 encoding. edit: in fact it can unpack “packed” scripts (packed with Dean Edward’s packer : http://dean.edwards.name/packer/)