How to 'minify' Javascript code

If you are using the VSCode editor, there are lots of plugins/extensions available.

The MinifyAll for instance is a very good one - compatible with many extension.

Install it and reload VSCode. Then click on your file, open command palette (Ctrl+Shift+p), ant type minify this document (Ctrl+alt+m) other available options there also like preserve original document and so on! Easy!

I have written a tiny script which calls a API to get your script minified, check it out:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;
use Fcntl;

my %api = ( css => 'https://cssminifier.com/raw', js => 'https://javascript-minifier.com/raw' );

my $DEBUG = 0;

my @files = @ARGV;

unless ( scalar(@files) ) {
    die("Filename(s) not specified");
}

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

foreach my $file (@files) {
    unless ( -f $file ) {
        warn "Ooops!! $file not found...skipping";
        next;
    }

    my ($extn) = $file =~ /\.([a-z]+)/;

    unless ( defined($extn) && exists( $api{$extn} ) ) {
        warn "type not supported...$file...skipping...";
        next;
    }

    warn "Extn: $extn, API: " . $api{$extn};

    my $data;

    sysopen( my $fh, $file, O_RDONLY );
    sysread( $fh, $data, -s $file );
    close($fh);

    my $output_filename;

    if ( $file =~ /^([^\/]+)\.([a-z]+)$/ ) {
        $output_filename = "$1.min.$2";
    }

    my $resp = $ua->post( $api{$extn}, { input => $data } );

    if ( $resp->is_success ) {
        my $resp_data = $resp->content;
        print $resp_data if ($DEBUG);
        print "\nOutput: $output_filename";

        sysopen( my $fh, $output_filename, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC );
        if ( my $sz_wr = syswrite( $fh, $resp_data ) ) {
            print "\nOuput written $sz_wr bytes\n";
            my $sz_org = -s $file;

            printf( "Size reduction %.02f%%\n\n", ( ( $sz_org - $sz_wr ) / $sz_org ) * 100 );
        }   
        close($fh);
    }
    else {
      warn: "Error: $file : " . $resp->status_line;
    }
}

Usage:

./minifier.pl a.js c.css b.js cc.css t.js j.js [..]

You can use javascript minifier of ubercompute.com to minify your code, It will minify your javascript code upto 75% of their original version.

Try out this JavaScript minifier from fixcode.org. It's a very effective tool to minify JavaScript

• Import code via URL
• import from file
• copy/download output