The core functionality associates mimetypes with minification functions, allowing embedded resources (like CSS or JS within HTML files) to be minified as well. The implemented minifiers are designed for high performance. Minification is the process of removing bytes from a file (such as whitespace) without changing its output and therefore shrinking its size and speeding up transmission over the internet and possibly parsing.
It provides HTML5, CSS3, JS, JSON, SVG and XML minifiers and an interface to implement any other minifier. Minify is a minifier package written in Go.
#Minify meaning install#
JavaScript bindings install with npm i you know that the shortest valid piece of HTML5 is x? See for yourself at the W3C Validator! Python bindings install with pip install tdewolff-minify See CLI for more installation instructions. Not monumental, but not too bad either.Online demo if you need to minify files now.īinaries of CLI for various platforms.
#Minify meaning full#
Informal testing on the recently released Full Plate Living site showed reduction in the front page’s download weight by an average of 110KB*. If bandwidth and performance are concerns you should be minifying, regardless of your ultimate solution. Script minification is a great way to reduce your site’s download footprint and increase usability. This is controlled by a regular expression so if you find a general case that’s not met by the current regular expression open a pull request to fix it! Conclusion This should be fixable from the service, so if it’s bothering you and I haven’t had time to fix it before you need it, As of v0.1.0 any comment containing the words “license” or “copyright” (case insensitive), or the common build tags and will not be stripped from the source code.
#Minify meaning license#
The service also currently strips some header comments from scripts which would could remove any copyright or license information if they exist. This is mitigated if you’re using Pressflow 7.20.1+ since core will not request files to be rebuilt if the hash of the concatenated scripts did not change. If there’s a problem connecting to the remote server the time spent waiting for the response is wasted and can cause timeouts on cold caches. The biggest issue that I’ve encountered with this module is the requests made to the external web service. This greatly reduces the number of requests to the web service and overhead associated with minification.
#Minify meaning Patch#
If you’re running Pressflow 7.20.1+ or apply this patch to core and you have JavaScript concatenation enabled (which you should, if you’re in production) the UglifyJS module will automatically minify the concatenated scripts. If you expose a lot of scripts to the UglifyJS API this will be time consuming and could cause timeouts. The downside to this approach is that each script will create another request to the service when the site cache is cold. Simple! The UglifyJS module provides an API to expose Drupal scripts that should be minified: The service accepts POST requests of un-minified JavaScript and returns the minified version. isn’t the only “minifier-as-a-service” out there, but I wanted to be able to throw something up quickly and be fairly confident that it wouldn’t upset some other poor developer out there hosting their own service. I wasn’t completely satisfied with this approach so I built and a companion Drupal module, UglifyJS, to do script minification on the fly. Thankfully, there are contrib solutions to this problem! The Speedy module provides pre-minified scripts but unfortunately needs to be re-released every time core is updated or you need to re-minify the files yourself on core updates. So, this is pretty cool, right? Unfortunately Drupal 7 doesn’t provide minification out of the box.
Keeping the “ Drupal” variable in your script makes sense because that’s the namespace you’re used to accessing it with and it does have meaning in the code, but by including it as an argument to the IIFE UglifyJS will replace any instances of “ Drupal” with a shortened variable.