javascript minifying

[JoseAlvira]

It would be great if DW were able to minify a group of javascript files. Could it be possible to add it as an extension? That would be great!

[Jon Fritz]

If someone wanted to, sure, an extension could be made.

With the prevalence of free online minifiers, I doubt many extension makers would see any profit in taking the time to create one though.

[JoseAlvira]

I use JSCompress all the time. But, being able to do it inside DW would be a lot easier.

[Jon Fritz]

...if they did it the right way, definitely.

I've seen some terrible extensions that actually make the process they're menat to fix, worse.

There was a time when DW had a huge group of extension makers that would basically compete against each other to see who could make the best version of a given extension. That time is long gone though. All that's left are pretty much 2-3 professional studios that make good paid extensions, and a handful of hobbiests with wildly varying levels of ability.

[Nancy OShea]

Feel free to submit a Feature request directly to the Dreamweaver Team from your Help Menu.

A Google search for JS Minifiy returns about 7 million results like this one on GitHub which could be adapted as an extension.

https://github.com/matthiasmullie/minify. 

[BenPleysier]

PLEASE IGNORE!!!

If you create Sass files you can tell Dreamweaver to conactenate and compress the files (or just compress)

For more, see https://helpx.adobe.com/au/dreamweaver/using/css-preprocessors.html

[Nancy OShea]

All we need now is a pre-processor for Javascript (happy face emoticon messed up by forum).

[BenPleysier]

My age is showing once again, many apologies. Have edited my post,

[Nancy OShea]

No worries, Ben.  This space is mind-numbingly dull and besides nobody's keeping score.

🙂

[Paul-M]

I think there's a brackets extenion that you can get to work inside Dreamweaver for this functionality