HTMLMinifier VS UglifyJS2

Minification involves removing unnecessary characters, whitespace, and comments from code files. It helps reduce HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc., file sizes without compromising functionality. Removing redundant elements makes these HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files smaller. Since smaller code files need less internet traffic to transfer, they load faster. Utilizing tools like UglifyJS, Clean-CSS, and HTMLMinifier enhances this process of code reduction. They analyze the code, remove redundant code, and generate optimized files for deployment.

html-minifier works since it has a cli and I can do something like the authors states in the documentation html-minifier --collapse-whitespace inside package.json "scripts": { }, thus I can run the task through the VSCode interface

[build] command = "pnpm build" publish = "_site" [build.processing] skip_processing = false [build.processing.css] minify = true bundle = false [build.processing.js] minify = true bundle = false # Config for the Netlify Build Plugin: netlify-plugin-minify-html [[plugins]] package = "netlify-plugin-minify-html" # Specify which deploy contexts we'll minify HTML in. # Supports any Deploy Contexts available in Netlify. # https://docs.netlify.com/site-deploys/overview/#deploy-contexts [plugins.inputs] contexts = [ 'production', 'branch-deploy', 'deploy-preview' ] # Optionally, override the default options for the minification # https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier#options-quick-reference [plugins.inputs.minifierOptions] collapseWhitespace = true conservativeCollapse = true minifyCSS = true minifyJS = true

Program: html-minifier Arguments: $FileName$ --collapse-whitespace --remove-comments -o $FileName$

HTMLMinifier

I found this one https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier which seems to be browser compatible, but impossible to get it to build with my setup (Next.js + typescript).

That's Minifcation and you'd normally thigs like https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier

I am not sure what you'd use this tool for possibly for scraping work but beautiful soup is probably better for that

☕ Minify HTML & CSS with HTMLMinifier and cssnano

The --file-ext option is set to html (in this example it is not needed), however if the input directory contains file types other than "html", errors may occur as a result of the attempted minification of those files. In the html-minifier github repository there is open issue to support multiple file extensions. A possible workaround for the time being is to add multiple package.json scripts, with each one running a separate command for each of the individual file types that will be minified. Additionally there are many other minifier packages available on npm and one of those may be better suited for file types other than html.

Minification involves removing unnecessary characters, whitespace, and comments from code files. It helps reduce HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc., file sizes without compromising functionality. Removing redundant elements makes these HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files smaller. Since smaller code files need less internet traffic to transfer, they load faster. Utilizing tools like UglifyJS, Clean-CSS, and HTMLMinifier enhances this process of code reduction. They analyze the code, remove redundant code, and generate optimized files for deployment.

Example: You've got a main.js file that's as long as a Tolstoy novel. Fix: Use tools like UglifyJS or Terser to minify your code. They'll squeeze out all the unnecessary bits and give you a sleeker, faster-loading file.

Minification: UglifyJS, Terser

There are a bunch of libraries that do this, but my current go to is Uglify: https://www.npmjs.com/package/uglify-js

There are many minifiers such as terser and uglify. But, because minifying also require to parse the JS, it is actually possible to use esbuild and SWC to minify the code. Here's a benchmark of the main minifiers.

In my understanding, UglifyJS 3 is the most popular JavaScript minifier tool presently -- it has a very high weekly download too. And as per the official documentation, it supports ES6.

I'm thinking reverse-engineered uglified js code (https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS) is not as impenetrable as code from reversed engineered wasm binaries? The element of plausible deniability is much more potent though, for the nefarious actor on the other side.

Program: uglifyjs Arguments: $FileName$ -c -m -o $FileNameWithoutExtension$.min.js

Apart from terser, you can also use uglify-js to compress or minify javascript.

Uglify