autominifier

Automatically Minify and Concatenate your JS and CSS files and libraries into single files for improved application performance.

Main features

Auto minify and concatenate js and css libraries into single .min files
Auto cache bust on changed versions
Auto detection of environment type

Other features

It just works, out of the box
Set it and forget it
No complex configurations
No Node.js required
No "watch" command required
No "--production" flag required
No configuration updates needed when adding new files
Auto detect already minified files
Customize destination folder and file names
Faster than Gulp or Grunt

Install

Via Composer

$ composer require makehappen/autominifier

Basic Usage

// minifier instance with default settings
$minifier = new Makehappen\AutoMinifier\Minify();

// returns "/js/app.min.js"
$minifier->js();

// returns "/css/app.min.css"
$minifier->css();

Post install:

Add env.json files to .gitignore
Update environment in env.json to development

{
    "environment": "development"
}

Run minifier instance again to generate .min files

Customized Usage

Custom folders and .min files:

// minifier instance with public path relative to package src folder path
$minifier = new Makehappen\AutoMinifier\Minify();
$minifier->setPublicFolder('/../../../../public_html/');

// returns .min.js file path with custom destinations
$minifier->js('/javascript', 'functions.min.js');

// returns .min.css file path path with custom destinations
$minifier->js('/styles', 'style.min.css');

Custom list and order of files: config.json

{
    "files": [
        "file-1.js",
        "folder2/file-2.js"
    ]
}

Implementation example in a Laravel project

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Conventions

By default, JavaScript files should live in the public /js folder or its sub-folders
By default, CSS files should live in the public /css folder or its sub-folders
Default concatenation order is alphabetical, folders first, followed by file names
Default relative path from vendor folder to public folder is expected to be ../public
Accepted extension files: .js, .css, .sass, .scss