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Subject: Re: How do you automatically minify your client JS files?
From: Ben Gourley <benleighgour...@gmail.com>
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I have created a middleware layer for express which compiles JS for
you at run time.
`npm install minj`
See github.com/bengourley/minj for usage.
Essentially you can just drop it in to your app.js without making any
other changes and it will just work.
For CSS minfication, if you are using stylus, there is a `compress`
option in the middleware, see: http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/docs/mid=
dleware.html
Hope this helps!
On Dec 6, 11:31=A0am, Srirangan <sriran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For one of my projects I have split my client app into a number of JS
> files. Am using the Express framework.
>
> I'd like to automate the minification of all these client side JS files,
> without of course modifying the original sources.
>
> I don't think it should be too different to generating CSS files from LES=
S,
> SASS or Stylus sources. How do I go about it?
>
> - Sri
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