Polymer: Feature request: support strip-whitespace when providing the template as a string

[rictic]

[arthurevans]

Ping on this one, relevant to 3.x

[TimvdLippe]

Hm, should be quite straightforward. The only thing we need to decide on is how to set the option.

[beauwest]

From an optimization standpoint, this is going to bite our web application as we upgrade components. We can have thousands of components in the DOM at any given time, so those text nodes really add up.

[rictic]

So, I think this will work:

``javascript class MyElement extends PolymerElement { static get template() { const myTemplate = html

hello world

`;
myTemplate.setAttribute('strip-whitespace');
return myTemplate;
}
}

[rictic]

Yeah, tested it with https://glitch.com/edit/#!/wiry-pediatrician - the setAttribute trick works!

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