Minification at Deployment?

What are your strategies for minifying code at deployment?

I'm looking for a process.

Thanks,
Nico
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nipper

Got a couple options.

You can use a DNR script to do that. However I prefer to do that in workflow and check both copies into TeamSite.

What tool do you use ?

sheikh1

We have used yahoo compressor YUI for assets like js/css before deployment. This can be easily executed by an external task. Are you looking for your source code(jsp/.net pages) minifying strategy?

nico

Yes i'm looking to minify all the usual front end files, js, css, html and .aspx files.

I'm just not clear how and when most of you are executing minification, in Teamsite? During Deploy?

Thanks

sheikh1

As nipper mentioned it is good to have as a task in workflow. Otherhand you can perform the minifying task once the resources are ready and before deployment, just run minifier script (externally) to output the files in the teamsite so that you can use CC to deploy those files using workflow. Hope this helps

-Sheikh

nipper

Yes i'm looking to minify all the usual front end files, js, css, html and .aspx files.

I'm just not clear how and when most of you are executing minification, in Teamsite? During Deploy?

Thanks

You can do it either. However if you run it on deploy, you have no record of it and no chance to test it before it goes live. So I like to do it in workflow and you can verify everything works before sending it live.

claudiag

You can do it either. However if you run it on deploy, you have no record of it and no chance to test it before it goes live. So I like to do it in workflow and you can verify everything works before sending it live.

Out of curiosity - where do you store the minified files relative to the original? Do you just create an additional version, or put it somewhere else? Trying to work out how this'd function for the users in my head.

nipper

typically just rename the file, that seems to be the standard, at least for JQuery. blah_1.3.js becomes blah_1.3_min.js in the same directory structure.