express-minify
Automatically minify (and cache) your JavaScript, CSS and JSON responses without pain. It also supports LESS/SASS/Stylus/CoffeeScript compiling and minifying.
Installation
npm install express-minify
Basic Usage
express-minify takes care of all responses. You don't even need to pass a source directory as other minifying middlewares.
var minify = ;app;
It's very easy and elegant to integrate express-minify with express.static and compression:
app;app;app;
Note that the order of the middlewares is important. In the example above, we want to: serve static files → for JS & CSS: minify → GZip → send to user, so we have such orders.
Options
Default:
app;
-
cache
:String | false
The directory for cache storage (must be writeable). Pass
false
to cache in the memory (not recommended). If you want to disable cache for specific response, see Disable Minifying or Caching for Specific Response. -
uglifyJsModule
:Object
Customize UglifyJS (>= 3) module. If not specified, it will be
require('uglify-js')
. Example: Use Uglify-ES. -
errorHandler
:Function(errorInfo, callback)
Function to handle compiling and minifying errors. You can determine what to respond for specific kind of error. See Customize Error Behavior.
-
jsMatch
:RegExp | false
Matches JavaScript content-type. Pass
false
to disable handling this kind of content. -
cssMatch
:RegExp | false
Matches CSS content-type. Pass
false
to disable handling this kind of content. -
jsonMatch
:RegExp | false
Matches JSON content-type. Pass
false
to disable handling this kind of content. -
sassMatch
:RegExp | false
Matches SASS content-type. Pass
false
to disable handling this kind of content. -
lessMatch
:RegExp | false
Matches LESS content-type. Pass
false
to disable handling this kind of content. -
stylusMatch
:RegExp | false
Matches Stylus content-type. Pass
false
to disable handling this kind of content. -
coffeeScriptMatch
:RegExp | false
Matches CoffeeScript content-type. Pass
false
to disable handling this kind of content.
Per-response Options
Options below can be supplied for specific response:
-
response.minifyOptions.enabled
:boolean
Pass
false
to disable all kind of processing for this response: no compiling, no minifying. -
response.minifyOptions.minify
:boolean
Pass
false
to disable minifying (JS, CSS and JSON) for this response, suitable for already-minified contents: example. -
response.minifyOptions.cache
:boolean
Pass
false
to disable caching the processed response data, suitable for dynamic contents: example. -
response.minifyOptions.js
:Object
Set UglifyJS options. You may want to disable mangling or compressing for specific response (e.g. AngularJS) via this option: example.
-
response.minifyOptions.css
:Object
-
response.minifyOptions.sass
:Object
-
response.minifyOptions.less
:Object
Set less render options.
Examples
Enable File Cache
By default, express-minify uses memory cache. You can change to file cache:
app;
Compile and Minify CoffeeScript/LESS/SASS/Stylus
express-minify can automatically compile your files and minify it without the need of specifying a source file directory. Currently it supports CoffeeScript, SASS, LESS and Stylus.
To enable this feature, first of all you need to install those modules by yourself:
# You needn't install all of these. Only choose what you need. npm install coffee-script less node-sass stylus --save
Then you need to define MIME for those files:
// visit http://localhost/test.coffee expressstaticmime; app;
Customize Error Behavior
Errors may thrown at the compiling stage (for CoffeeScript/LESS/SASS/Stylus) or at the minifying stage (for JSON/UglifyJS/CleanCSS). The default behavior is returning the error message for compiling errors and returning original content for minifying errors.
You can customize this behavior or get notified about the error by providing errorHandler
in options:
var minify = ; var { console; // below is the default implementation (minify.Minifier.defaultErrorHandler) if errorInfostage === 'compile' ; return; ;}; app;
The structure of errorInfo
is:
-
stage
: One of["compile", "minify"]
The stage when error is thrown.
-
body
:String
The content to compile or minify, which causes the error of course. If there are errors when minifying the compiled source,
body
will be the compiled source. -
assetType
: One of["js", "css", "json", "coffee", "sass", "less", "stylus"]
The type of the original content.
-
options
:Object
The options you supplied via
response.minifyOptions
. -
error
:Error
The error thrown by the corresponding processor.
Use Uglify-ES
You can pass the uglify-es module in options to replace the built-in UglifyJS 3 module.
var uglifyEs = ;app;
Remember to invalidate file caches after switching a UglifyJS module. They won't be invalidated automatically.
Specify UglifyJS Options
Example 1: Disable Mangling for AngularJS Source Files
app;app;
Example 2: Preserve Comments for Specific JavaScript Files
app;
Dynamic Response
express-minify is able to handle all kind of responses, including dynamic responses.
var responseJS = "(function(window, undefined)\n" + "{\n" + "\n" + " var hello = 'hello';\n" + "\n" + " var world = 'world';\n" + "\n" + " alert(hello + world);\n" + "\n" + "})(window);"app;app;
Disable Minifying or Caching for Specific Response
If you don't want to minify a specific response, just set response.minifyOptions.minify = false
.
If you want to minify a response but don't want to cache it (for example, dynamic response data), set response.minifyOptions.cache = false
.
Example 1. Disable Minification for Minified Assets
app;app;
Example 2. Disable Caching for Dynamic Content
app;app; app;
Change Log
1.0.0
- Replace cssmin with clean-css
- Upgrade to use Uglify-JS 3 API
- Support options for CSS minifying
- Support options for SASS and LESS compiling
- Refine naming conversion
- Minimum required NodeJs version changed to
4.0.0
forObject.assign
0.2.0
- Support
onerror
- Minimum required NodeJs version changed to
0.12.0
forfs.access
0.1.7
- Support customizing UglifyJS/cssmin instance
0.1.6
- Make
node-sass
,stylus
,less
,coffee-script
dependency optional, now developers need to manually install those modules to enable compiling
0.1.5
- Fix MIME for Js
- Fix JSON minify performance issue
0.1.4
- Add some useful badges #27
- Update dependencies
- Support JSON minify #25
- Start to use travis-ci online build testing
0.1.3
0.1.2
- Added
res._skip
. - Modified behaviour of
res._no_minify
. Now it will only disable minifying and won't cause precompiling not working. #17 - Fixed cache bugs with response options.
0.1.1
- Added fallback for
res._no_mangle = true
(Please useres._uglifyMangle = false
) - Update dependencies
0.1.0
- Changed disabling mangle:
res._no_mangle = true
=>res._uglifyMangle = false
- Added support for passing additional UglifyJs options:
res._uglifyCompress
,res._uglifyOutput
#15
0.0.11
- Update dependencies #11
0.0.10
-
Added tests
-
Fixed SASS compiling
-
Fixed express-compression compatibility
0.0.9
- Added support for
res._no_mangle
#10
0.0.8
-
Removed options of
whitelist
andblacklist
-
Added support for
res._no_cache
#5 -
Node v0.10 compatible
0.0.7
-
Changed
options
's defaultblacklist
to[/\.min\.(css|js)$/]
-
Replaced
uglifycss
withcssmin
-
Dropped support for
.sass
(https://github.com/andrew/node-sass/issues/12) -
Fixed #3
0.0.6
- Support for blacklist and whitelist #2
0.0.5
-
Added support for
res._no_minify
-
Fixed #1
0.0.4
- Support for LESS/SASS/Stylus/CoffeeScript parsing and minifying
0.0.3
-
Support for file cache
-
Fixed the bug of non-string path
0.0.2
- Support for dynamic minifying
License
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2017 Breezewish
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