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ColdBox JSMin Compressor

Luis Majano December 23, 2009

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Luis Majano

December 23, 2009

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Thanks to Henrik Joreteg we have now our very own ColdBox JSMin Compressor for js/css assets.  This plugin is a cool java/coldfusion integration and will compress your css and js assets on the fly and produce compressed versions of your assets.  It will also cache them and concatenate multiple assets into a single js/css file for even more optimizations. How easy?

<head>
#getMyPlugin("JSMin").minify('includes/js/myscripts.js','includes/js/jquery.js')#
#getMyPlugin("JSMin").minify('includes/css/site.css','includes/css/boxes.css')#
</head>


So thanks Henrik, we now have ColdBox JSMin and what would a plugin be without documentation :) http://wiki.coldbox.org/wiki/Projects:JSMin-Compressor.cfm

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Dec 23, 2009 14:23:28 UTC

by Henrik Joreteg

Thanks for the props Luis. You're awesome for pulling this off so fast!

One other thought. Some people have a very strong preference for XHTML vs HTML syntax. It may be nice to have an optional argument for outputting tags in either coding style, especially since HTML5 supports both.

<link href=reset.css rel=stylesheet type=text/css>

vs.

<link href=reset.css rel=stylesheet type=text/css />

Just a thought... totally awesome plugin though, I love it!

Jan 27, 2011 01:24:04 UTC

by Christian Meis

Just a side-note on incorrect examples here (thanks for help from the Google group ;-) ):

Instead of

getMyPlugin(JSMin).minify('includes/js/myscripts.js','includes/js/jquery.js')#

You have to use

getMyPlugin(JSMin).minify('includes/js/myscripts.js,includes/js/jquery.js')#

to concatenate several files together. Note the difference in the list - it's a quoted list of filename, not a list of (individually) quoted filenames.

Feel free to remove this comment after changing the wiki ;-)

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