Mangle nested classes and variables with uglifyjs

Question

I use uglifyjs to minify a concatenated set of files, which works fine but not good enough. The built lib uses namespaces, so classes, functions and constants are stored in

Answer 1

When you minimize Javascript you can only change names of variables, the api, core and names are not variables but properties of an object. If these were changed by the minimizer, you would potentially get unexpected results. What if in your code you would call

root["api"].perform = function()...

or even something like

function doIt(section, method, argument) {
    root[section][method](argument);
}
doIt('api','perform', 101);

All perfectly legal JS, but a minimizer could never figure out what's going on.