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nodeJS is becoming a tool that is really necessary in frontend development you often need a buildstep before deploying code on the server ( minif , concat ,

nodeJS is becoming a tool that is really necessary in frontend development you often need a buildstep before deploying code on the server ( minif , concat , ... ) Certainly there are minifiers like Uglify that are Node.js packages, but I wouldn't go so far as to claim that Node.js is now "necessary" for frontend development. I'd bet an awful lot that YUI Compressor, Google Closure Compiler, even things like jsmin.c are being used much more than similar Node.js-based tools.

camus 14y ago
I bet people doing some javascript aint going to install java just to minify their script, nor ant to manage tasks , nor maven to fetch packages when you get everything with node+npm. If you do testing , and you should , you need node to run tests.
aioprisan 14y ago
yui compressor is deprecated
- ojbyrne 14y ago
  By who? Genuinely curious.
  - ojbyrne 14y ago
    Ah, found it myself: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/10/16/state-of-yui-compressor/ http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/10/16/state-of-yui-compress...