We are using jQuery in our project. We have numerous custom javascript files in our web-app that have UDFs utilizing the jQuery features. We need to reduce the size (as a part of performance improvement activities) and I am looking for a reliable 'minifier' for these files (it would be great if the same tool could minify the CSS files too)
We tried JSLint and JSMin - but JSLint does not complete and throws many exceptions as soon as it encounters jQuery code.
Regards,
- Ashish
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The YUI Compressor is a tool I use, it compresses both JS and CSS well, and it is written in Java (so you can work it into a build process via ant).
ReplyDeleteSomeone's even made an online version of it.
Try YUICompress which usually works like a charm. Can minify CSS as well.
ReplyDeleteThere's also a .NET port of YUI Compressor which allows you to:-
ReplyDeleteintergrate the minification/file combining into Visual Studio post-build events
intergrate into a TFS Build (including CI)
if you wish to just use the dll's in your own code (eg. on the fly minification).
because this is a port of the (original) java version YUI Compressor, which a few peeps mention above, it should give you the same results BUT all in the .NET environment -- no need for java.
HTH.
minify does the job. There's also YUI Compressor, but I've never tried it.
ReplyDeleteFrom the minify website:
Minify is a PHP5 app that can combine
multiple CSS or Javascript files,
compress their contents (i.e. removal
of unnecessary whitespace/comments),
and serve the results with HTTP
encoding (gzip/deflate) and headers
that allow optimal client-side
caching. This helps you follow several
of Yahoo!'s Rules for High Performance
Web Sites.