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Re:Minification Is Evil by tecleandor on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @10:55AM (#38380895)
Quick test I've done with some popular frameworks. I wonder if minification affects to parsing speed.

    +--------------------------+---------+---------+---------+--------+
    |         Library          |  Size   | gzip -1 | gzip -9 | brotli |
    +--------------------------+---------+---------+---------+--------+
    | bootstrap.css            |  280813 |   47312 |   33109 |  24533 |
    | bootstrap.min.css        |  232948 |   42003 |   30776 |  22695 |
    | react.development.js     |   87574 |   28733 |   23513 |  19818 |
    | react.development.min.js |   25612 |   10217 |    9224 |   8052 |
    | tailwind-2.2.19.css      | 3642321 |  376787 |  304100 |  82049 |
    | tailwind-2.2.19.min.css  | 2934019 |  354063 |  294632 |  72803 |
    | vue.global.js            |  476920 |  134655 |  105130 |  87121 |
    | vue.global.min.js        |  167898 |   74769 |   65582 |  57922 |
    +--------------------------+---------+---------+---------+--------+
Edit: something important to note: some frameworks (e.g. React) have lots of comments on their un-minified versions, that are removed when minified. That affects their size greatly.
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Re:Minification Is Evil by sebstefan on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @11:19AM (#38381234)
> Edit: something important to note: some frameworks (e.g. React) have lots of comments on their un-minified versions, that are removed when minified. That affects their size greatly.

Are you telling us your code doesn't? :-)

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Re:Minification Is Evil by tecleandor on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @11:46AM (#38381598)
Hah! It's self-documenting!

Nah, in a more serious note, to properly compare the impact of minification, I should remove the comments from the unminified (maxified?) version first. :)

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Re:Minification Is Evil by sebstefan on Friday November 24, 2023 @07:07AM (#38403124)
Nah that wouldn't be fair, the code I serve my users initially has comments too and the arguments that people bring to criticize minification is that it adds complexity if you want to read the code in the browser. The comments should stay
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Re:Minification Is Evil by PaulHoule on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @11:38AM (#38381483)
Often I avoid comments by using long names for functions and variables (e.g. the test whose name is a statement of the postulate behind it) and minimization squashes many of those.
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