Uglifyjs: Minify multiple files to a directory

[backspaces]

Generally there is a way to use a CLI tool to specify several files, and a directory to process the individual files into.

So I presumed uglifyjs src/*.js -o lib/ -c -m would minify each individual file into the lib dir. This doesn't seem to work.

Is it possible to use uglifyjs to minify multiple files into a directory?

[kzc]

Uglify will concat the input files. The option -o can only specify the name of an output file.

uglifyjs foo.js bar.js -o out.js

You have to make a script to process the files individually.

[Yimiprod]

How i can concat files with something like main.js *.js, at the moment, main.js appear two times in the output file.

[kzc]

instead of main.js *.js just use *.js

[Yimiprod]

If i want main.js to be the first one in the minified file? How i can manage order for specific files?

[kzc]

then don't use a wildcard and just list all the files out by name in the order you want

[TracyGJG]

You probably already have a solution but I encountered the same problem (issue 1110) so provided candidate solution. However, instead of public/src/js/*.js use public/src/js and all contained JavaScript files will be submitted.

[Yimiprod]

At the moment i stay with the wildcard, i think a solution would be to use the library glob, who allow more complexe wildcards.

[robrecord]

So many people are searching for this - I think it needs to be implemented.

[kzc]

So many people are searching for this - I think it needs to be implemented.

This project is a volunteer effort. We await your pull request.

[TracyGJG]

I am not sure how I contribute to the project via a push request. I'm sure it's easy but I just do not have the time to find out. I have a solution in the 3rd follow up comment under issue 1110.

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From: kzc [email protected]
Date: 18/07/2016 23:39 (GMT+00:00)
To: mishoo/UglifyJS2 [email protected]
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Subject: Re: [mishoo/UglifyJS2] Minify multiple files to a directory (#1087)

So many people are searching for this - I think it needs to be implemented.

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[robrecord]

I'm new to this too but it looks fairly easy:

See the numbered list in this article.
http://oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/pullrequest

[TracyGJG]

I have submitted a candidate solution in the form of Pull Request #1240.

Thank you robrecord for the very useful link.

[robrecord]

Thank you for the addition, TracyGJG!

[avdg]

Thanks for rolling the ball ;-)

[RyanZim]

Isn't this fixed by https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2/pull/1242?

[kzc]

Yep

[RyanZim]

@backspaces Can you close?

[backspaces]

Sure, thanks.