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terser | swc | |
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27 | 139 | |
8,427 | 29,984 | |
1.4% | 1.4% | |
8.9 | 9.9 | |
about 21 hours ago | 3 days ago | |
JavaScript | Rust | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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terser
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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 🐌
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.
swc
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Storybook 8 Beta
First, we switched the default compiler for new projects from Babel to SWC (Speedy Web Compiler). SWC is dramatically faster than Babel and requires zero configuration. We’ll continue to support Babel in any project currently using it.
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What is JSDoc and why you may not need typescript for your next project?
SWC
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Implementing auth flow as fast as possible using NestJS
As the reference explains “**SWC** (Speedy Web Compiler) is an extensible Rust-based platform that can be used for both compilation and bundling. Using SWC with Nest CLI is a great and simple way to significantly speed up your development process.”
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Ruby Outperforms C: Breaking the Catch-22
This is specifically about breaking the myth that performing expensive self-contained operations (e.g, parsing GraphQL) in a native extension (C, Rust, etc.) is always faster than the interpreted language.
The JS ecosystem has the same problem, people think rewriting everything in Rust will be a magic fix. In practice, there's always the problem highlighted in the post (transitioning is expensive, causes optimization bailouts), as well as the cost of actually getting the results back into Node-land. This is why SWC abandoned the JS API for writing plugins - constantly bouncing back and forth while traversing AST nodes was even slower than Babel (e.g https://github.com/swc-project/swc/issues/1392#issuecomment-...)
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Building a Minimalist Docker Image with Node, TypeScript
Why Speedy Web Compiler ?
- TypeScript Is Surprisingly OK for Compilers
- Speedy Web Compiler: Rust-Based Platform for the Web
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FTA: Fast TypeScript Analyzer
FTA is a TypeScript static analysis tool built on the speedy foundations of swc. FTA is fast; capable of analyzing more than 150 files per second on typical hardware, it offers a powerful addition to your code quality toolkit.
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Show HN: Ezno, a TypeScript checker written in Rust, is now open source
Very cool! I'm curious, is this intended for dev tooling?
For example, I could see this (or something similar) being useful as the engine for a typescript language server that would be faster than the standard one
But if it's not aimed at 1:1 with tsc, would it be intended more for something like swc[1]?
Or what would you expect people to use this for, besides just being a cool project to learn from?
[1] https://github.com/swc-project/swc
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TypeScript team released an explorer for performance tuning
This is... good news, but I still cannot fathom using the default Typescript compiler for regular development. Seriously, leave the type-checking to your IDE and CICD chain, and switch to using tsx (https://www.npmjs.com/package/tsx) or swc (https://swc.rs/) and you will _immediately_ notice the difference in speed and productivity.
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
ts-loader - TypeScript loader for webpack
closure-compiler - A JavaScript checker and optimizer.
tsup - The simplest and fastest way to bundle your TypeScript libraries.
Sass - Sass makes CSS fun!
vitest - Next generation testing framework powered by Vite.
PostCSS - Transforming styles with JS plugins
ts-node - TypeScript execution and REPL for node.js