Google's standard template language (soy / closure-templates) does mininfy whitespace by default [1]. However, it does not omit optional tags. I think this is w

Google's standard template language (soy / closure-templates) does mininfy whitespace by default [1]. However, it does not omit optional tags. I think this is why the style guide is written as it is. Still, I agree that both types of optimization / minification should be done by the tooling layer. [1] https://developers.google.com/closure/templates/docs/concepts#linejoining https://developers.google.com/closure/templates/docs/concept...