This plugin uses [terser](https://github.com/terser/terser) to minify/minimize your JavaScript.
## Getting Started
Webpack v5 comes with the latest `terser-webpack-plugin` out of the box. If you are using Webpack v5 or above and wish to customize the options, you will still need to install `terser-webpack-plugin`. Using Webpack v4, you have to install `terser-webpack-plugin` v4.
To begin, you'll need to install `terser-webpack-plugin`:
```console
npm install terser-webpack-plugin --save-dev
```
or
```console
yarn add -D terser-webpack-plugin
```
or
```console
pnpm add -D terser-webpack-plugin
```
Then add the plugin to your `webpack` config. For example:
**Works only with `source-map`, `inline-source-map`, `hidden-source-map` and `nosources-source-map` values for the [`devtool`](https://webpack.js.org/configuration/devtool/) option.**
Why?
-`eval` wraps modules in `eval("string")` and the minimizer does not handle strings.
-`cheap` has not column information and minimizer generate only a single line, which leave only a single mapping.
Using supported `devtool` values enable source map generation.
## Options
- **[`test`](#test)**
- **[`include`](#include)**
- **[`exclude`](#exclude)**
- **[`parallel`](#parallel)**
- **[`minify`](#minify)**
- **[`terserOptions`](#terseroptions)**
- **[`extractComments`](#extractcomments)**
### `test`
Type:
```ts
type test = string | RegExp | Array<string|RegExp>;
```
Default: `/\.m?js(\?.*)?$/i`
Test to match files against.
**webpack.config.js**
```js
module.exports = {
optimization: {
minimize: true,
minimizer: [
new TerserPlugin({
test: /\.js(\?.*)?$/i,
}),
],
},
};
```
### `include`
Type:
```ts
type include = string | RegExp | Array<string|RegExp>;
```
Default: `undefined`
Files to include.
**webpack.config.js**
```js
module.exports = {
optimization: {
minimize: true,
minimizer: [
new TerserPlugin({
include: /\/includes/,
}),
],
},
};
```
### `exclude`
Type:
```ts
type exclude = string | RegExp | Array<string|RegExp>;
```
Default: `undefined`
Files to exclude.
**webpack.config.js**
```js
module.exports = {
optimization: {
minimize: true,
minimizer: [
new TerserPlugin({
exclude: /\/excludes/,
}),
],
},
};
```
### `parallel`
Type:
```ts
type parallel = boolean | number;
```
Default: `true`
Use multi-process parallel running to improve the build speed.
Default number of concurrent runs: `os.cpus().length - 1`.
> **Note**
>
> Parallelization can speedup your build significantly and is therefore **highly recommended**.
> **Warning**
>
> If you use **Circle CI** or any other environment that doesn't provide real available count of CPUs then you need to setup explicitly number of CPUs to avoid `Error: Call retries were exceeded` (see [#143](https://github.com/webpack-contrib/terser-webpack-plugin/issues/143), [#202](https://github.com/webpack-contrib/terser-webpack-plugin/issues/202)).
#### `boolean`
Enable/disable multi-process parallel running.
**webpack.config.js**
```js
module.exports = {
optimization: {
minimize: true,
minimizer: [
new TerserPlugin({
parallel: true,
}),
],
},
};
```
#### `number`
Enable multi-process parallel running and set number of concurrent runs.
// Used to regenerate `fullhash`/`chunkhash` between different implementation
// Example: you fix a bug in custom minimizer/custom function, but unfortunately webpack doesn't know about it, so you will get the same fullhash/chunkhash
// to avoid this you can provide version of your custom minimizer
Whether comments shall be extracted to a separate file, (see [details](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/commit/71933e979e51c533b432658d5e37917f9e71595a)).
By default extract only comments using `/^\**!|@preserve|@license|@cc_on/i` regexp condition and remove remaining comments.
If the original file is named `foo.js`, then the comments will be stored to `foo.js.LICENSE.txt`.
The `terserOptions.format.comments` option specifies whether the comment will be preserved, i.e. it is possible to preserve some comments (e.g. annotations) while extracting others or even preserving comments that have been extracted.
#### `boolean`
Enable/disable extracting comments.
**webpack.config.js**
```js
module.exports = {
optimization: {
minimize: true,
minimizer: [
new TerserPlugin({
extractComments: true,
}),
],
},
};
```
#### `string`
Extract `all` or `some` (use `/^\**!|@preserve|@license|@cc_on/i` RegExp) comments.
**webpack.config.js**
```js
module.exports = {
optimization: {
minimize: true,
minimizer: [
new TerserPlugin({
extractComments: "all",
}),
],
},
};
```
#### `RegExp`
All comments that match the given expression will be extracted to the separate file.
**webpack.config.js**
```js
module.exports = {
optimization: {
minimize: true,
minimizer: [
new TerserPlugin({
extractComments: /@extract/i,
}),
],
},
};
```
#### `function`
All comments that match the given expression will be extracted to the separate file.
**webpack.config.js**
```js
module.exports = {
optimization: {
minimize: true,
minimizer: [
new TerserPlugin({
extractComments: (astNode, comment) => {
if (/@extract/i.test(comment.value)) {
return true;
}
return false;
},
}),
],
},
};
```
#### `object`
Allow to customize condition for extract comments, specify extracted file name and banner.
**webpack.config.js**
```js
module.exports = {
optimization: {
minimize: true,
minimizer: [
new TerserPlugin({
extractComments: {
condition: /^\**!|@preserve|@license|@cc_on/i,
filename: (fileData) => {
// The "fileData" argument contains object with "filename", "basename", "query" and "hash"
Default: `/*! For license information please see ${commentsFile} */`
The banner text that points to the extracted file and will be added on top of the original file.
Can be `false` (no banner), a `String`, or a `Function<(string) -> String>` that will be called with the filename where extracted comments have been stored.
Will be wrapped into comment.
**webpack.config.js**
```js
module.exports = {
optimization: {
minimize: true,
minimizer: [
new TerserPlugin({
extractComments: {
condition: true,
filename: (fileData) => {
// The "fileData" argument contains object with "filename", "basename", "query" and "hash"
[`UglifyJS`](https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS) is a JavaScript parser, minifier, compressor and beautifier toolkit.
**webpack.config.js**
```js
module.exports = {
optimization: {
minimize: true,
minimizer: [
new TerserPlugin({
minify: TerserPlugin.uglifyJsMinify,
// `terserOptions` options will be passed to `uglify-js`
// Link to options - https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS#minify-options
terserOptions: {},
}),
],
},
};
```
### [`swc`](https://github.com/swc-project/swc)
[`swc`](https://github.com/swc-project/swc) is a super-fast compiler written in rust; producing widely-supported javascript from modern standards and typescript.
> **Warning**
>
> the `extractComments` option is not supported and all comments will be removed by default, it will be fixed in future
**webpack.config.js**
```js
module.exports = {
optimization: {
minimize: true,
minimizer: [
new TerserPlugin({
minify: TerserPlugin.swcMinify,
// `terserOptions` options will be passed to `swc` (`@swc/core`)
// Link to options - https://swc.rs/docs/config-js-minify
terserOptions: {},
}),
],
},
};
```
### [`esbuild`](https://github.com/evanw/esbuild)
[`esbuild`](https://github.com/evanw/esbuild) is an extremely fast JavaScript bundler and minifier.
> **Warning**
>
> the `extractComments` option is not supported and all legal comments (i.e. copyright, licenses and etc) will be preserved
**webpack.config.js**
```js
module.exports = {
optimization: {
minimize: true,
minimizer: [
new TerserPlugin({
minify: TerserPlugin.esbuildMinify,
// `terserOptions` options will be passed to `esbuild`
// Link to options - https://esbuild.github.io/api/#minify
// Note: the `minify` options is true by default (and override other `minify*` options), so if you want to disable the `minifyIdentifiers` option (or other `minify*` options) please use:
// terserOptions: {
// minify: false,
// minifyWhitespace: true,
// minifyIdentifiers: false,
// minifySyntax: true,
// },
terserOptions: {},
}),
],
},
};
```
### Custom Minify Function
Override default minify function - use `uglify-js` for minification.