JSmin plugin question/trouble

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1

Hello,

working on a local workflow for JS/CSS minifying during deployment I
stumbled across the JSmin plugin. So why do all the work myself? :wink:

But when testing this I run into one problem - perhaps someone can
shed some light on this:

- ColdBox 3.0.0 RC 1
- JSmin plugin downloaded from ForgeBox today. It says "version 1.4"
in the source code

Here's a snippet from one of the layouts in the <head> section:

<cfoutput>
#getMyPlugin("JSMin").minify('includes/css/layout.css','includes/css/
jquery.tooltip.css','includes/css/jcarousel-skin.css','includes/css/
jquery.tweet.css')#
</cfoutput>

So you see I try to concatenate/compress 4 CSS files. Everything seems
to work at first glance, and the compressed file is generated in the
configured cache directory.
BUT: It only contains the first CSS file, the other 3 are ignored.

The same problem exists for compressing about 10 JS files in the same
layout.

I don't see any obvious errors, and just don't see the error (which I
suppose is on my side).

Christian

2

Christian,

Change this

#getMyPlugin("JSMin").minify('includes/css/layout.css','includes/css/
jquery.tooltip.css','includes/css/jcarousel-skin.css','includes/css/
jquery.tweet.css')#

to this

#getMyPlugin("JSMin").minify('includes/css/layout.css,includes/css/
jquery.tooltip.css,includes/css/jcarousel-skin.css,includes/css/
jquery.tweet.css')#

and you should be good to go. Let me know if you need further help.

Curt Gratz
Computer Know How
ColdBox Alliance Partner

3

Hi Christian,

As an aside you might want to also take a look at Aaron Greenlee’s blog post around a workflow he designed for this sort of thing. Cool stuff.

http://aarongreenlee.com/share/coldfusion-coldbox-client-source

Nolan

4

Yeah - I’d strongly recommend moving these kind of tasks into an automated build process. Ant is OK as a starting point, but I’ve got to recommend Gradle. Much more powerful and maintainable, and almost as easy to get started with.

Best Wishes,
Peter

5

@Curt:
Thanks, that was it. Makes me feel like a first-day CFer :wink:
The docs in the wiki are wrong though, as they show it exactly the way
I did. I have put a comment there to correct it.

@the rest:
Thanks for an interesting read. I was playing with Ant and
minification, too. In that process I stumbled upon the JSmin plugin...

Christian

6

Thanks for the heads up on Gradle, Peter. Looks interesting, I'll have
to play around with it.

7

I agree with Peter to automate the build process. We use Ant and use
the yuicompressor to minify js and css files.

Ernst