frontend-files-uglifier

Welcome! frontend-files-uglifier is a maven plugin to uglify (minify) front end files for Java Web Applications. Currently JavaScript and CSS files can be minified.

Introduction

Frontend files uglifier minifies your project JavaScript and/or CSS files into the same or a different directory, you can add a "min" suffix or replace the existing file. An option is also given to minify only files that are updated later than their minified copies (which are identified by *.min.js /css). Goal is named uglify.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
sources	FileSet	The directory containing javascript source files. (required)
typesToMinify	String	Parameter to set which types to minify via comma separated string list. Default value is "js,css".
outputDirectory	String	The output directory to put uglified files. If skipped, the minified file will be created on the same folder.
mangle	boolean	Parameter for mangle (e.g. keep the function parameter names). Default value is true.
keepName	boolean	Parameter to minify into a new file with the same name, if set to true. If no output directory is defined, then the existing file will be replaced. Default value is false.
minifyOnlyUpdated	boolean	Parameter to minify only js files that are modified after their respective js files. Default value is false.

Example

You can call the plugin during the build process:

<plugin>  
    <groupId>com.github.spyrospac</groupId>  
    <artifactId>frontend-files-uglifier</artifactId>  
    <version>1.1</version>  
  
    <executions>  
        <execution>  
            <id>uglifyjs3</id>  
            <goals>  
                <goal>uglify</goal>  
            </goals>  
            <configuration>  
                <sources>  
                    <directory>web/src/main/webapp/resources/static/jscript</directory>  
                    <excludes>  
                        <exclude>org/foo</exclude>  
                        <exclude>org/bar</exclude>  
                        <exclude>**/*.min.js</exclude>
			<exclude>**/*.min.css</exclude>
                    </excludes>  
                </sources>  
                <minifyOnlyUpdated>true</minifyOnlyUpdated>  
            </configuration>  
        </execution>  
    </executions>  
</plugin>

Acknowledgement

The development of this plugin was done to check on the mojos with TDD. It is based on uglifyjs-maven-plugin, which is not developed anymore. The plugin uses a minified version of the great UglifyJS for JavaScript files and CSSO for CSS files.