https://github.com/peterdavehello/web-minify-helper

Help web developer to make their js & css files minified easily!
https://github.com/peterdavehello/web-minify-helper

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Help web developer to make their js & css files minified easily!

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/peterdavehello/web-minify-helper
• Owner: PeterDaveHello
• Created: 2014-04-04T21:24:26.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-01-19T21:03:09.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-19T23:24:15.761Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: css, hacktoberfest, js, minify, shell, web
• Language: Shell
• Homepage:
• Size: 35.2 KB
• Stars: 14
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 14
• Open Issues: 14
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  • Readme: readme.md

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# Web minify helper!

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Let me help you minify css and js files automatically and easily!

This is only a shell script; it depends on bash shell, grep, curl and nodejs/npm.

It is based on [clean-css](https://github.com/jakubpawlowicz/clean-css), [uglify-js](https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2) and [javascript-minifier.com](https://javascript-minifier.com)/[cssminifier.com](https://cssminifier.com).

Feel free to contribute to the project if you want!

## Requirements

- Bash shell

- grep

- curl

- Node.js >= (4.0)

## How to use?

```sh

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/PeterDaveHello/web-minify-helper.git

$ cd web-minify-helper

$ npm install

```

First go to the target directory you want to minify, then run the script(`path_of_script/minify.sh`). Or you can pass the directory's path as a parameter to the script!

You may even place the script file (or make a link to it) under the `$HOME/bin` directory, allowing you to conveniently run this script from any directory!

## Explanation

The script will scan all the directories under the current working directory, except path with '.git'.

Then, it will check all the js & css files to see if they already have a minified version (currently, it recognizes it by looking for a `.min` in the filename, before the file extension).

If the file does not have a minified version, it will minify it.

Furthermore, even if there is a minified version available, the script will compare the last modified time between the original file and its minified version. If the original one is newer than the minified one -- which means the minified file is older than the original -- then it will replace the old minified file with a new minified version!