Good JavaScript compression tool

[petermichaux]

Hi,

Anyone here use a nice open source JavaScript compression tool they
could recommend. Is there a well known standard tool for this? I
imagine a small script written in Ruby or Perl that removes comments,
extra whitespace (new lines where possible), shrinks variable names
etc.

Thanks,
Peter

 

[Randy Webb]

(e-mail address removed) said the following on 4/1/2006 4:47 PM:

Hi,

Anyone here use a nice open source JavaScript compression tool they
could recommend. Is there a well known standard tool for this? I
imagine a small script written in Ruby or Perl that removes comments,
extra whitespace (new lines where possible), shrinks variable names
etc.

http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.html

 

[David Dorward]

Anyone here use a nice open source JavaScript compression tool they
could recommend. Is there a well known standard tool for this?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html