Eclipse PDT has this handy built-in Yui Compressor in the context menu for files. But when building a webapp that uses multiple such files,
Well, I actually downloaded the jar and created an ANT task to to CSS and JS compression. I work on Tomcat, so it includes tasks to upload stuff, clean work/ directory and things like that. Hope it helps.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE project>
<project name="MyProject" default="subir">
<!-- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-->
<property name="project.name" value="MyProject" />
<property name="src.dir" location="src" />
<property name="web.dir" location="WebContent" />
<property name="lib.dir" location="WebContent/WEB-INF/lib" />
<property name="bin.dir" location="WebContent/WEB-INF/classes" />
<property name="minify.dir" location="minified" />
<property name="minify.sourcedir" location="${skin.dir}/resources/" />
<!-- <property name="minify.sourcedir" location="${web.dir}/resources/" /> -->
<!-- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-->
<property prefix="env" file="build.properties" />
<path id="project.classpath">
<pathelement location="${src.dir}" />
<fileset dir="${lib.dir}">
<include name="*.jar" />
</fileset>
</path>
<path id="yui.classpath.minifier">
<fileset dir="${lib.dir}">
<include name="YUIAnt.jar" />
<include name="yuicompressor-2.4.2.jar" />
</fileset>
</path>
<!-- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-->
<target name="checkTomcatHome">
<condition property="local.tomcathome.exists">
<available file="${env.TOMCAT_PRUEBAS}" type="dir" />
</condition>
</target>
<target name="subir" depends="checkTomcatHome" if="local.tomcathome.exists">
<echo message="El servidor Tomcat destino existe, buscando archivos para copia en el proyecto y en en OsmoCore/WebContent..." />
<copy todir="${env.TOMCAT_PRUEBAS}/webapps/${project.name}">
<fileset dir="${web.dir}">
<include name="**/*.*" />
</fileset>
</copy>
<!--<echo message="Buscando archivos para copia en ${env.TOMCAT_PRUEBAS}/webapps/${project.name}/WEB-INF/classes..." />
<copy todir="${env.TOMCAT_PRUEBAS}/webapps/${project.name}/WEB-INF/classes">
<fileset dir="${bin.dir}">
<include name="**/*.*" />
</fileset>
</copy>-->
</target>
<!-- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-->
<target name="WAR">
<delete file="${project.name}.war"/>
<delete dir="TMP_WAR"/>
<mkdir dir="TMP_WAR"/>
<copy todir="TMP_WAR">
<fileset dir="${web.dir}">
<include name="**/*.*" />
</fileset>
</copy>
<copy todir="TMP_WAR/WEB-INF/classes">
<fileset dir="${bin.dir}">
<include name="**/*.*" />
</fileset>
</copy>
<delete dir="${project.name}.war"/>
<zip destfile="${project.name}.war">
<zipfileset dir="TMP_WAR">
<include name="**/*.*" />
</zipfileset>
</zip>
<delete dir="TMP_WAR"/>
</target>
<!-- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-->
<target name="subirCompleto" depends="checkTomcatHome" if="local.tomcathome.exists">
<echo message="El servidor Tomcat destino existe, buscando carpetas Work y ${project.name} en Webapps, para eliminar" />
<delete dir="${env.TOMCAT_PRUEBAS}/work" />
<delete dir="${env.TOMCAT_PRUEBAS}/webapps/${project.name}" />
<antcall target="subir" />
</target>
<!-- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-->
<target name="borrarWork" depends="checkTomcatHome" if="local.tomcathome.exists">
<echo message="El servidor Tomcat destino existe, buscando carpeta Work a eliminar..." />
<delete dir="${env.TOMCAT_PRUEBAS}/work"/>
</target>
<!-- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-->
<target name="css.minify">
<echo message="Creando directorio temporal ${minify.dir} (si no existe aún)..." />
<mkdir dir="${minify.dir}" />
<echo message="Borrando versión anterior de la carpeta temporal ${minify.dir}/css-min/..." />
<delete dir="${minify.dir}/css-min/" />
<echo message="Creando carpeta temporal ${minify.dir}/css-min/..." />
<mkdir dir="${minify.dir}/css-min/" />
<echo message="Copiando estructura de ${web.dir}/resources/styles/ en carpeta temporal..." />
<copy todir="${minify.dir}/css-min/">
<fileset dir="${minify.sourcedir}/styles/">
<include name="**/*.*" />
</fileset>
</copy>
<echo message="Borrando los CSS copiados a la carpeta temporal..." />
<delete>
<fileset dir="${minify.dir}/css-min/" >
<include name="**/*.css"/>
</fileset>
</delete>
<echo message="Comprimiendo!!!..." />
<apply executable="java" parallel="false" dest="${minify.dir}/css-min/">
<fileset dir="${minify.sourcedir}/styles/">
<include name="**/*.css"/>
</fileset>
<arg line="-jar"/>
<arg path="${lib.dir}/yui_compressor/yuicompressor-2.4.7.jar"/>
<arg line="--line-break 0"/>
<arg line="--type css"/>
<arg line="--charset ISO-8859-1"/>
<arg line="--nomunge"/>
<!-- <arg line="- -verbose"/> -->
<srcfile />
<arg line="-o"/>
<mapper type="glob" from="*.css" to="*.css"/>
<targetfile />
</apply>
</target>
<!-- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-->
<target name="js.minify">
<echo message="Creando directorio temporal ${minify.dir} (si no existe aún)..." />
<mkdir dir="${minify.dir}" />
<echo message="Borrando versión anterior de la carpeta temporal ${web.dir}/resources/js-min/..." />
<delete dir="${minify.dir}/js-min/" />
<echo message="Creando carpeta temporal ${web.dir}/resources/js-min/..." />
<mkdir dir="${minify.dir}/js-min/" />
<echo message="Copiando estructura de ${web.dir}/resources/scripts/ en carpeta temporal..." />
<copy todir="${minify.dir}/js-min/">
<fileset dir="${minify.sourcedir}/scripts/">
<include name="**/*.*" />
</fileset>
</copy>
<echo message="Borrando los JS copiados a la carpeta temporal..." />
<delete>
<fileset dir="${minify.dir}/js-min/" >
<include name="**/*.js"/>
</fileset>
</delete>
<echo message="Comprimiendo!!!..." />
<apply executable="java" parallel="false" dest="${minify.dir}/js-min/">
<fileset dir="${minify.sourcedir}/scripts">
<include name="**/*.js"/>
</fileset>
<arg line="-jar"/>
<arg path="${lib.dir}/yui_compressor/yuicompressor-2.4.7.jar"/>
<arg line="--line-break 0"/>
<arg line="--type js"/>
<arg line="--charset ISO-8859-1"/>
<arg line="--nomunge"/>
<!--<arg line="- -verbose"/>-->
<srcfile />
<arg line="-o"/>
<mapper type="glob" from="*.js" to="*.js"/>
<targetfile />
</apply>
</target>
<!-- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-->
<target name="js.minified.subir" depends="checkTomcatHome" if="local.tomcathome.exists">
<echo message="El servidor Tomcat destino existe, copiando archivos 'encogidos' a ${env.TOMCAT_PRUEBAS}/webapps/${project.name}/resources/scripts..." />
<copy todir="${env.TOMCAT_PRUEBAS}/webapps/${project.name}/resources/scripts" overwrite="yes">
<fileset dir="${minify.dir}/js-min/">
<include name="**/*.*" />
</fileset>
</copy>
</target>
<!-- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-->
<target name="css.minified.subir" depends="checkTomcatHome" if="local.tomcathome.exists">
<echo message="El servidor Tomcat destino existe, copiando archivos 'encogidos' a ${env.TOMCAT_PRUEBAS}/webapps/${project.name}/resources/styles..." />
<copy todir="${env.TOMCAT_PRUEBAS}/webapps/${project.name}/resources/styles" overwrite="yes">
<fileset dir="${minify.dir}/css-min/">
<include name="**/*.*" />
</fileset>
</copy>
</target>
<!-- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-->
<target name="css.minified.process">
<echo message="Reduciendo el tamaño de los archivos CSS..." />
<antcall target="css.minify" />
<echo message="Cargando los archivos CSS..." />
<antcall target="css.minified.subir" />
<echo message="Borrando la carpeta temporal..." />
<delete dir="${minify.dir}" />
</target>
<!-- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-->
<target name="js.minified.process">
<echo message="Reduciendo el tamaño de los archivos JS..." />
<antcall target="js.minify" />
<echo message="Cargando los archivos JS..." />
<antcall target="js.minified.subir" />
<echo message="Borrando la carpeta temporal..." />
<delete dir="${minify.dir}" />
</target>
<!-- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-->
</project>
You can also batch-minify using Node.js. However, this option is only for Linux users (for now).
Every time some software package is horribly lacking a convenience (Eclipse) or a builder batch format is just crazy (ANT), someone clever comes along and creates something awesome.
In this case,
which is awesome.
Just thought I'd update this question and add the answer.
You can select and "build" js/css resources by configuring and adding an External Tool with a batch (for Windows users).
This makes it possible to minify by just pressing one button. (It is not part of a run configuration.)
Preconditions: - Java has to be installed. - You must download yuicompressor. (Currently the official download page is here: https://github.com/yui/yuicompressor/releases )
Step1: Add "yuicompressor" and "minify.bat" (given below) to your project.
Step2: Configure an External Tool named "Minify" (Go to menu Run -> External Tools -> External Tools Configurations).
Step3: Select the resources (js/css) or the directory that contains them, and click "Minify". The js/css files will be deployed to the sibling "min" directory.
(minify.bat)
@echo off
set target=%1
set yui=%2\WebContent\build\yuicompressor\yuicompressor-2.4.8.jar
:: %1 selected resource
:: %2 current project
:: dir
if exist %target%\ (
cd /d %target%
mkdir min 2>nul
for %%f in (*.js *.css) do (
echo Minifying "%%~ff"
java -jar %yui% %%f -o min\%%f
)
goto end
)
:: .js/.css
set pathNoExt=0
for /f %%i in ('dir /b %target%') do set pathNoExt=%%~ni
if not %pathNoExt%==0 (
cd /d %~dp1
mkdir min 2>nul
for /f %%f in ('dir /b %pathNoExt%.js %pathNoExt%.css') do (
echo Minifying "%%~ff"
java -jar %yui% %%f -o min\%%f
)
)
:end
echo Minified
I would like to improve the answer of megre (https://stackoverflow.com/a/53678752/760777). His solution works, but can be improved. All credits to him though.
In step 2: Change the location of the batch file into ${project_loc}\build\minify.bat Place your batch file "minify.bat" in a subfolder "build" in your project folder. Also change the arguments from "$resource_loc $project_loc" to "${project_loc}".
If that does not work for you try "$project_loc". Different versions of Eclipse seem to use different variables.
See screenshot:
I changed the batch file completely:
@ECHO OFF
REM Note: There is a bug in yuicompressor 2.4.8 causing yuicompressor not te be accessible
REM see https://stackoverflow.com/a/19339287/760777
SET yui="C:\Program Files (x86)\yuicompressor\yuicompressor-2.4.7.jar"
SET cssFolder=%1\css
SET jsFolder=%1\js
IF EXIST %cssFolder% (
ECHO Processing folder "%cssFolder%" ...
CD %cssFolder%
MKDIR min 2>NUL
FOR %%f IN (*.css) DO (
ECHO Minifying "%%~ff"
java -jar %yui% %%f -o min\%%f
)
) ELSE (
ECHO %cssFolder% does not exist. Put your css files in a subfolder "css" in the current project folder
)
IF EXIST %jsFolder% (
ECHO Processing folder "%jsFolder%" ...
CD %jsFolder%
MKDIR min 2>NUL
FOR %%f IN (*.js) DO (
ECHO Minifying "%%~ff"
java -jar %yui% %%f -o min\%%f
)
) ELSE (
ECHO %jsFolder% does not exist. Put your js files in a sub folder "js" in the current project folder
)
Probably unnecessary to say, but to use the minified files, you have to modify the references in your HTML / PHP files accordingly.