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Not minifying your code is evil from the viewpoint of people who have to wait for your page to load.
Low footprint by default, anyone who wants to inspect then downloads the extra, and for bonus points can even see the original typescripted version instead of the js.
Not 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.
Not minifying your code is evil from the viewpoint of people who have to wait for your page to load.
Not 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.
The three lines of not-haiku made me want to write a haiku. Do not minify Your front end is insightful Let people inspect
There once was a proud web designer
Whose code ‘pared with most was far finer
Yet he minified
And nobody spied
The great masterpiece of Brent Spiner!Nobody cares about the source, let website authors do what they want.
Not minifying your code is evil from the viewpoint of people who have to wait for your page to load.
Doesn't really matter after compression unless the bulk of your code can be culled from the end product. Tbh the largest business value this has is slowing down people trying to use your internal APIs.
Minification doesn't really achieve much other than obfuscation these days.