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7 Free Tools to Minify your Scripts and CSS

27 points by kadhinn 16y ago

zalew 16y ago
For the Django dudes in here: http://github.com/miracle2k/django-assets http://github.com/miracle2k/django-assets with which you can use your compressor of choice http://elsdoerfer.name/docs/django-assets/ http://elsdoerfer.name/docs/django-assets/
bigstorm 16y ago
For Dojo as mentioned on the post comment http://dojotoolkit.org/docs/shrinksafe http://dojotoolkit.org/docs/shrinksafe
buro9 16y ago
And they've missed the Google Closure Optimizer for JavaScript: http://code.google.com/closure/ http://code.google.com/closure/
ErrantX 16y ago
If anyone uses Kohana I maintain a packaged which wraps the PHP cssmin and jsmin libraries (plus some Kohana juice for serving files/caching) http://hg.errant.me.uk/minify http://hg.errant.me.uk/minify There is also a port (or rewrite) for Kohana V3 that someone else maintains http://github.com/zazu/minify http://github.com/zazu/minify
pmjordan 16y ago
I'm not sure why YUI Compressor is last on that list, and why it's not mentioned that it also minifies CSS.
- ojbyrne 16y ago
  Last could be a position of honor. And he mentions that it produces higher compression ratios.
statenjason 16y ago
Two months ago I hooked up jsmin from a build script for release configurations. It's been helpful to have all of the reader-friendly stuff stripped out automatically without having to store minified copies in source control.
- ojbyrne 16y ago
  That's obviously a best practice. Minified code is essentially object code.
mike-cardwell 16y ago
I wrote a couple of articles a while ago about minifying css/javascript on the fly. They utilise a mod_perl handler which intercepts outgoing css/js and compresses them on the way out. https://secure.grepular.com/Compressing_CSS_on_the_Fly https://secure.grepular.com/Compressing_CSS_on_the_Fly https://secure.grepular.com/Compressing_JavaScript_on_the_Fly https://secure.grepular.com/Compressing_JavaScript_on_the_Fl...
frankosaurus 16y ago
For .NET websites, Combres does minifying, compression, and combining of scripts: http://combres.codeplex.com/ http://combres.codeplex.com/

27 points by kadhinn 16y ago

zalew 16y ago

For the Django dudes in here: http://github.com/miracle2k/django-assets http://github.com/miracle2k/django-assets with which you can use your compressor of choice http://elsdoerfer.name/docs/django-assets/ http://elsdoerfer.name/docs/django-assets/

bigstorm 16y ago

For Dojo as mentioned on the post comment http://dojotoolkit.org/docs/shrinksafe http://dojotoolkit.org/docs/shrinksafe

buro9 16y ago

And they've missed the Google Closure Optimizer for JavaScript: http://code.google.com/closure/ http://code.google.com/closure/

ErrantX 16y ago

If anyone uses Kohana I maintain a packaged which wraps the PHP cssmin and jsmin libraries (plus some Kohana juice for serving files/caching) http://hg.errant.me.uk/minify http://hg.errant.me.uk/minify There is also a port (or rewrite) for Kohana V3 that someone else maintains http://github.com/zazu/minify http://github.com/zazu/minify

pmjordan 16y ago

I'm not sure why YUI Compressor is last on that list, and why it's not mentioned that it also minifies CSS.

ojbyrne 16y ago
Last could be a position of honor. And he mentions that it produces higher compression ratios.

statenjason 16y ago

Two months ago I hooked up jsmin from a build script for release configurations. It's been helpful to have all of the reader-friendly stuff stripped out automatically without having to store minified copies in source control.

ojbyrne 16y ago
That's obviously a best practice. Minified code is essentially object code.

mike-cardwell 16y ago

I wrote a couple of articles a while ago about minifying css/javascript on the fly. They utilise a mod_perl handler which intercepts outgoing css/js and compresses them on the way out. https://secure.grepular.com/Compressing_CSS_on_the_Fly https://secure.grepular.com/Compressing_CSS_on_the_Fly https://secure.grepular.com/Compressing_JavaScript_on_the_Fly https://secure.grepular.com/Compressing_JavaScript_on_the_Fl...

frankosaurus 16y ago

For .NET websites, Combres does minifying, compression, and combining of scripts: http://combres.codeplex.com/ http://combres.codeplex.com/