Comments on: Using YUI compressor in a web project

By: Marchelle Grindell

Marchelle Grindell — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:19:56 +0000

Thanks for the info and taking the time to write this. There was an article on wordpress’ website that was of no help whatsoever.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:41:30 +0000

I’m no longer using Ant as a build tool, but I’m doing basically the same thing w/ Maven using the latest version. It does work just fine with JQuery, tol.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:58:38 +0000

Which version of YUI Compressor are you using? Does it work properly with jquery libraries?

Nice post

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:10:25 +0000

@Ben – Nice article. It was helpful in incorporating YUI-compressor into my build tasks. Doing it manually from the command line was a pain.

@Armindo,

Your solution is inadequate. Javascript relies on a hierarchical structure where the order of execution is important. Your approach of using a wildcard to include the javascript files ignores the significance of execution order. In all but the most simplest of cases, your script will fail. I’m guessing that you overlooked this issue in your eagerness to try and hijack someone else’s blog.

By: Armindo Cachada

Armindo Cachada — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:28:15 +0000

In my blog you can find an example on how to use YUI compressor in an ant task. This code also has a nice feature that concatenates css and js files without hardcoding them into the build.xml file, using a custom ant task.

You can find more information at:

http://simplyolaf.blogspot.com/2009/06/minifying-css-and-js-with-yahoo.html

and

http://simplyolaf.blogspot.com/2009/06/minimizing-number-of-http-requests-by.html

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:55:15 +0000

You’ll have to be a little clearer with your site layout. And can you post your build file on PasteBin or something?

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:20:14 +0000

I can not get this code to work for me. I have the following set up:
mySite
+– Build
+– css
+– js
+– pages
+– Website
+– css
+– js
+– pages
Cots

I am trying to take my js files from under ‘Website’ and minify and compress them into the ‘Build/js’ drirectory… however I keep getting ‘No files found’ echo prints.