Minification Is Evil
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Minification Is Evil
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#2In the modern era of minifying JS to squeeze out bytes, in certain cases, for smaller, non-commercial sites, it might be better for devs to learn from reading each other's source code.
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#3Didn’t read the article, but I agree with the title lol
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#4Didn’t read the article, but I agree with the title lol
Not much to read really, it's not even an "article".
But I agree, there is not really much point to minification for small or medium websites. Transport compression takes care of file sizes.
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#5Not minifying your code is evil from the viewpoint of people who have to wait for your page to load.
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#6Didn’t read the article, but I agree with the title lol
Not much to read really, it's not even an "article". But I agree, there is not really much point to minification for small or medium websites. Transport compression takes care of file sizes.
Usually I am telling X users they should quit X and start a blog but this is a blog post that would be better on X and better still on Mastodon.
I was on a brief kick of interest in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
which of course eliminates structures like "X is Y" but I realized I could still write stuff like "With utmost evil, evil webmasters minify their evil web sites for evil reasons that make sense only in the evil world view of evil people"
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#7Didn’t read the article, but I agree with the title lol
Not much to read really, it's not even an "article". But I agree, there is not really much point to minification for small or medium websites. Transport compression takes care of file sizes.
Minification is the "feel good" optimization for frontend (ahem, full-stack nowadays) developers that want to feel like they are doing FAANG-level optimizations.
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#8Not minifying your code is evil from the viewpoint of people who have to wait for your page to load.
Or people who cannot afford unlimited data plans.
Preempting because I know we tend to be a little out of touch here: yes there are still plenty of cell plans without unlimited data, mostly among the pay per month options.
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#10The three lines of not-haiku made me want to write a haiku.
Do not minify
Your front end is insightful
Let people inspect