peggy VS terser

The PEG.js project got taken over by a new maintainer who locked everyone else out, never shipped a release, and then ignored repeated requests to transfer the project back to the community. So the community forked it to a new project - Peggy, which is where ongoing development happens: https://github.com/peggyjs/peggy

NOTE: The original PEG.js project is not maintained anymore, but there is a new fork, Peggy that is maintained and it's backward compatible with PEG.js so it will be easy to switch.

Thanks. Yes, DTL's core textual syntax is described with PEG. I make use of the Peggy (https://peggyjs.org/) PEG processor to build up the AST that is used to actually process DTL.

There are C based PEG processors, which I've looked at once or twice also, but I haven't sat down to try to convert it. Mostly out of a desire to get the existing module to work well. A working module for one language is better than a partially working module for multiple. :P

hmm this article is a bit outdated; peg.js (mentioned in the article) has been discountined for a few years now; recently the project was picked up by another team under the name peggy.js https://github.com/peggyjs/peggy

During my intial search i came across some outdated libraries like javascript-obfuscator and uglify-js(as if javascript code can get any uglier, am I right?). Then, I stumbled upon Terser, a modern library that supports ES6.

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.

They can do it, it is just turned off by default and require more advanced configuration.

https://github.com/terser/terser#cli-mangling-property-names...

Minifying is a common practice for optimizing production code. (for example, using Terser to minify and mangle JavaScript).

Minification: UglifyJS, Terser

Terser is JavaScript compressor that can minified specific method names.

Every release build of React Native uses terser to reduce the size of your JavaScript. And it operation can be omitted for Staging/Beta builds.

A minifier makes your code more compact so that it loads faster. Popular minifiers: Terser, swc.

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.

This next one will help us reduce final bundle size by minifying the generated code. It's called rollup-plugin-terser and uses terser under the hood to minify the code.