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14 days ago | 7 days ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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terser
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10 Bad Habits That Can Slow Down Your JavaScript Applications π
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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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.
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I reduced an npm package size by 50% with minification
fifty-three kilo-byte was a little bit large, and since the bundler i'm using for this package is rollup.js, all ineeded to do was install the terser β a JavaScript compressor toolkit for ES6 mdash; plugin for rollup.
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How to build tree-shakeable JavaScript libraries
You can see that the div function was copied βas isβ and is not used in any way. When you run Webpack in production mode, it will remove this function. (Internally, Webpack relies on Terser for minification; Rollup performs tree-shaking and dead code elimination on its own.)
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. Weβll 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 β**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.β
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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
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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?
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[AskJS] Advantages of Rollup over other bundlers for creating libraries?
Rollup is highly configurable via plugins. It also supports a wide range of transpilation targets. However, it's written in JavaScript (well, TypeScript) so there's a ceiling on how fast it can go. esbuild and swc are orders-of-magnitude faster than Rollup.
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Optimize your Bundle Size with SWC and GraphQL Codegen
There was already a Babel plugin for the client-preset for projects using Babel in the client-preset package. Now, as SWC itself, and Next.js is becoming more popular and uses SWC as its default compiler, there was a need for a SWC plugin as well. SWC is a fast and modern JavaScript/TypeScript compiler written in Rust, so the Babel plugin couldn't be used.
What are some alternatives?
esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web
vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!
ts-loader - TypeScript loader for webpack
tsup - The simplest and fastest way to bundle your TypeScript libraries.
ts-node - TypeScript execution and REPL for node.js
vitest - Next generation testing framework powered by Vite.
sucrase - Super-fast alternative to Babel for when you can target modern JS runtimes
create-react-app-esbuild - Use esbuild in your create-react-app for faster compilation, development and tests
react-ssr-starter - π₯ βοΈ A React boilerplate for a universal web app with a highly scalable, offline-first foundation and our focus on performance and best practices.
Rollup - Next-generation ES module bundler