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terser | minification-benchmarks | |
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27 | 15 | |
8,402 | 1,208 | |
1.2% | - | |
8.9 | 9.0 | |
15 days ago | 8 days ago | |
JavaScript | TypeScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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Obfuscating your create react app and routes
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.
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10 Bad Habits That Can Slow Down Your JavaScript Applications ๐
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.
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Things you forgot because of React
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...
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Understanding Source Maps: Simplifying Debugging
Minifying is a common practice for optimizing production code. (for example, using Terser to minify and mangle JavaScript).
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How To Secure Your JavaScript Applications
Minification: UglifyJS, Terser
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Minify private methods in a TypeScript class
Terser is JavaScript compressor that can minified specific method names.
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React Native CI/CD build speed improved by 22% with one line of code
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.
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Setting up a custom toolchain
A minifier makes your code more compact so that it loads faster. Popular minifiers: Terser, swc.
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Overview of the next-gen frontend dev tools
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.
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Rollup Library Starter
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.
minification-benchmarks
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Extremely reducing the size of NPM package
Minifiers are used to reduce the size of the bundle. They can remove unused code, shorten expressions, and so on. And Now there are already several popular minifiers, and they continue to appear: more familiar ones - written in JavaScript - Terser and UglifyJS, even Babel has its own version of the minifier, there are also more modern SWC (written in Rust) and ESBuild (written in Go), and a bunch of other lesser-known minifiers. And I recommend you to look at this repository. It contains up-to-date test results of various popular minifiers.
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Minify and Gzip (2022)
This minify/gzip size effect is a well known quirk to developers of javascript minifiers. The minifier's symbol mangling algorithm often has a more pronounced effect than does advanced AST optimization.
This website has real life data on the matter for popular libraries:
* https://github.com/privatenumber/minification-benchmarks
Compare the trophies indicating smallest size for Minified versus Minzipped (gzip). Generally the smallest minified size yields the smallest minified+gzip size, but there are some notable anomolies outside the range of statistical noise. It is not practical for a javascript minifier to take a compression algorithm into account - it would blow up the minify timings exponentially.
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Bun v0.6.0 โ Bun's new JavaScript bundler and minifier
It would be helpful to see how Bun's minifier compares to the others with popular libraries:
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JS Uglify/Minify Gems?
JavaScript
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Overview of the next-gen frontend dev tools
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.
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Overworld 1.0 is Live
Here's a comparison showing the major players with comparable stats at first glance. https://github.com/privatenumber/minification-benchmarks
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Is anyone using Google Closure Compiler? And why not?
https://esbuild.github.io/ https://github.com/privatenumber/minification-benchmarks
- Parcel v2
- I never need webpack or babel anymore
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๐งข Stefan's Web Weekly #6
privatenumber/minification-benchmarks โ JS minification benchmarks: babel-minify, esbuild, terser, uglify-js
What are some alternatives?
esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web
vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!
UglifyJS2 - JavaScript parser / mangler / compressor / beautifier toolkit
mocha-esbuild - Run tests with mocha compiled by esbuild
closure-compiler - A JavaScript checker and optimizer.
fjb - fast javascript bundler :package:
Sass - Sass makes CSS fun!
source-map-explorer - Analyze and debug space usage through source maps
PostCSS - Transforming styles with JS plugins
estrella - Lightweight and versatile build tool based on the esbuild compiler