Node-minify

A very light minifier NodeJS module.

Support:

• YUI Compressor --version 2.4.7

• Google Closure Compiler --version 2388

• UglifyJS2

• Sqwish

It allow you to compress JavaScript and CSS files.

I recommend to execute it at boot time for production use.

See server.js in examples/.

Installation

npm install node-minify

Quick Start

var compressor = require('node-minify');

// Using Google Closure
new compressor.minify({
	type: 'gcc',
	fileIn: 'public/js/base.js',
	fileOut: 'public/js/base-min-gcc.js',
	callback: function(err){
		console.log(err);
	}
});

// Array
new compressor.minify({
	type: 'gcc',
	fileIn: ['public/js/base.js', 'public/js/base2.js'],
	fileOut: 'public/js/base-onefile-gcc.js',
	callback: function(err){
		console.log(err);
	}
});

// Only concatenation of files (no compression)
new compressor.minify({
    type: 'no-compress',
    fileIn: ['public/js/base.js', 'public/js/base2.js'],
    fileOut: 'public/js/base-onefile-gcc.js',
    callback: function(err){
        console.log(err);
    }
});

// Using YUI Compressor for CSS
new compressor.minify({
	type: 'yui-css',
	fileIn: 'public/css/base.css',
	fileOut: 'public/css/base-min-yui.css',
	callback: function(err){
		console.log(err);
	}
});

// Using YUI Compressor for JS
new compressor.minify({
	type: 'yui-js',
	fileIn: 'public/js/base.js',
	fileOut: 'public/js/base-min-yui.js',
	callback: function(err){
		console.log(err);
	}
});

// Using UglifyJS for JS
new compressor.minify({
	type: 'uglifyjs',
	fileIn: 'public/js/base.js',
	fileOut: 'public/js/base-onefile-uglify.js',
	callback: function(err){
		console.log(err);
	}
});

// Using Sqwish for CSS
new compressor.minify({
    type: 'sqwish',
	fileIn: ['public/css/base.css', 'public/css/base2.css'],
	fileOut: 'public/css/base-min-sqwish.css',
    callback: function(err){
		console.log('Sqwish');
        console.log(err);
    }
});

Concatenate Files

In order to concatenate files, simply pass in an array with the file paths to fileIn.

fileIn: ['public/js/base.js', 'public/js/base2.js', ...]

Max Buffer Size

In some cases you might need a bigger max buffer size (for example when minifying really large files). By default the buffer is 1000 * 1024 which should be enough. If you however need more buffer, you can simply pass in the desired buffer size as an argument to compressor.minify like so:

new compressor.minify({
	type: 'uglifyjs',
	fileIn: './public/css/base.css',
	fileOut: './public/css/base-min-uglifyjs.css',
	buffer: 1000 * 1024,
	callback: function(err){
		console.log(err);
	}
});

Temp Path

You can define a temporary folder where temporary files will be generated :

new compressor.minify({
	type: 'yui-js',
	fileIn: 'public/js/base.js',
	fileOut: 'public/js/base-min-yui.js',
	tempPath: '/tmp',
	callback: function(err){
		console.log(err);
	}
});

YUI Compressor

Yahoo Compressor can compress both JavaScript and CSS files.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/

Google Closure Compiler

Google Closure Compiler can compress only JavaScript files.

It will throw an error if you try with CSS files.

http://code.google.com/closure/compiler

UglifyJS

UglifyJS can compress only JavaScript files.

It will throw an error if you try with CSS files.

https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS

Sqwish

Sqwish can compress only CSS files.

https://github.com/ded/sqwish

Warning

It assumes you have Java installed on your environment for both GCC and YUI Compressor. To check, run:

java -version

Windows support

Since v0.5.0, a windows support is available for the no-compress option and uglify-js (thanks to pieces029 and benpusherhq)

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2013 Rodolphe Stoclin

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.