combine javascript files at deployment in python

Question

I\'m trying to reduce the number of scripts included in our website and we use buildout to handle deployments. Has anybody successfully implemented a method of combining and com

Answer 1

The qooxdoo project comes with a Javascript compressor written in Python. Although it's tightly integrated with the framework, you should be able to utilize the compressor component. If you get the latest SDK there is a tool/bin/compile.py command line tool you can use to compress JS files, with various options (use the -h command line switch for help). I'm sure builtout can call this through a shell.

If you want to roll your own you can draw the compressor into your own Python code, by using the Python modules that come with the qooxdoo SDK (under tool/pylib/). It's not documented but you can look at the compile.py script how to achieve that.