Comments on: Build-Time Aggregation of JS/CSS Assets

By: barneyb

barneyb — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:29:49 +0000

Adam,

Yes, you're absolutely right. I've added a note to that effect at the bottom of the post.

By: Adam Haskell

Adam Haskell — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:52:05 +0000

One additional note, if memory serves me correctly, the "for" ANT task is not a core task of ANT and you will need the ant-contrib jar on the classpath as well: http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/

By: Ben Nadel

Ben Nadel — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:51:32 +0000

@Barney,

Looking very cool. This is way beyond my scope of experience, but I like what I think I see :) At the very least, I should check out this YUI Compressor.

By: Paul Marcotte

Paul Marcotte — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:04:33 +0000

Thanks, Jim. I'll be sure to check that out. Excellent wiki, btw. Great resource.

By: Jim Priest

Jim Priest — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:44:53 +0000

Paul – I've got a section on my wiki about this – there are few ways to do it…

http://www.thecrumb.com/wiki/ant#javascript_and_css_compression

By: Paul Marcotte

Paul Marcotte — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:34:36 +0000

Ugh. Spot the fellow didn't read closely… This is very cool. I will definitely us this when I get up to speed with ant!

By: barneyb

barneyb — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:30:29 +0000

Paul,

The 5th section of the Ant target above does exactly that. You just need to have the compressor JARs on the classpath.

By: Paul Marcotte

Paul Marcotte — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:24:55 +0000

Hi Barney,

I was thinking recently that it would be interesting to run both js and css through the YUICompressor at build time as well. I'm an ant n00b so I wouldn't know where to start.

How difficult would it be to add that as another target in the ant build?

By: Jim Priest

Jim Priest — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:11:43 +0000

Good stuff. Added to my wiki (and my todo list)…