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UglifyJS 2
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[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/mishoo/UglifyJS2.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/mishoo/UglifyJS2)
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UglifyJS is a JavaScript parser, minifier, compressor or beautifier toolkit.
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This page documents the command line utility. For
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[API and internals documentation see my website](http://lisperator.net/uglifyjs/).
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There's also an
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[in-browser online demo](http://lisperator.net/uglifyjs/#demo) (for Firefox,
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Chrome and probably Safari).
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Install
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First make sure you have installed the latest version of [node.js](http://nodejs.org/)
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(You may need to restart your computer after this step).
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From NPM for use as a command line app:
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npm install uglify-js -g
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From NPM for programmatic use:
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npm install uglify-js
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From Git:
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git clone git://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2.git
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cd UglifyJS2
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npm link .
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Usage
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-----
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uglifyjs [input files] [options]
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UglifyJS2 can take multiple input files. It's recommended that you pass the
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input files first, then pass the options. UglifyJS will parse input files
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in sequence and apply any compression options. The files are parsed in the
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same global scope, that is, a reference from a file to some
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variable/function declared in another file will be matched properly.
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If you want to read from STDIN instead, pass a single dash instead of input
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files.
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If you wish to pass your options before the input files, separate the two with
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a double dash to prevent input files being used as option arguments:
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uglifyjs --compress --mangle -- input.js
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The available options are:
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```
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--source-map Specify an output file where to generate source
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map.
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--source-map-root The path to the original source to be included
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in the source map.
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--source-map-url The path to the source map to be added in //#
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sourceMappingURL. Defaults to the value passed
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with --source-map.
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--source-map-include-sources Pass this flag if you want to include the
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content of source files in the source map as
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sourcesContent property.
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--in-source-map Input source map, useful if you're compressing
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JS that was generated from some other original
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code.
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--screw-ie8 Pass this flag if you don't care about full
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compliance with Internet Explorer 6-8 quirks
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(by default UglifyJS will try to be IE-proof).
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--expr Parse a single expression, rather than a
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program (for parsing JSON)
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-p, --prefix Skip prefix for original filenames that appear
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in source maps. For example -p 3 will drop 3
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directories from file names and ensure they are
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relative paths. You can also specify -p
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relative, which will make UglifyJS figure out
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itself the relative paths between original
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sources, the source map and the output file.
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-o, --output Output file (default STDOUT).
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-b, --beautify Beautify output/specify output options.
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-m, --mangle Mangle names/pass mangler options.
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-r, --reserved Reserved names to exclude from mangling.
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-c, --compress Enable compressor/pass compressor options. Pass
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options like -c
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hoist_vars=false,if_return=false. Use -c with
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no argument to use the default compression
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options.
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-d, --define Global definitions
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-e, --enclose Embed everything in a big function, with a
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configurable parameter/argument list.
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--comments Preserve copyright comments in the output. By
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default this works like Google Closure, keeping
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JSDoc-style comments that contain "@license" or
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"@preserve". You can optionally pass one of the
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following arguments to this flag:
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- "all" to keep all comments
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- a valid JS regexp (needs to start with a
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slash) to keep only comments that match.
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Note that currently not *all* comments can be
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kept when compression is on, because of dead
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code removal or cascading statements into
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sequences.
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--preamble Preamble to prepend to the output. You can use
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this to insert a comment, for example for
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licensing information. This will not be
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parsed, but the source map will adjust for its
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presence.
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--stats Display operations run time on STDERR.
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--acorn Use Acorn for parsing.
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--spidermonkey Assume input files are SpiderMonkey AST format
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(as JSON).
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--self Build itself (UglifyJS2) as a library (implies
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--wrap=UglifyJS --export-all)
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--wrap Embed everything in a big function, making the
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“exports” and “global” variables available. You
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need to pass an argument to this option to
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specify the name that your module will take
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when included in, say, a browser.
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--export-all Only used when --wrap, this tells UglifyJS to
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add code to automatically export all globals.
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--lint Display some scope warnings
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-v, --verbose Verbose
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-V, --version Print version number and exit.
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--noerr Don't throw an error for unknown options in -c,
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-b or -m.
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--bare-returns Allow return outside of functions. Useful when
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minifying CommonJS modules.
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--keep-fnames Do not mangle/drop function names. Useful for
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code relying on Function.prototype.name.
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--reserved-file File containing reserved names
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--reserve-domprops Make (most?) DOM properties reserved for
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--mangle-props
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--mangle-props Mangle property names
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--mangle-regex Only mangle property names matching the regex
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--name-cache File to hold mangled names mappings
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--pure-funcs List of functions that can be safely removed if
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their return value is not used [array]
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```
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Specify `--output` (`-o`) to declare the output file. Otherwise the output
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goes to STDOUT.
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## Source map options
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UglifyJS2 can generate a source map file, which is highly useful for
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debugging your compressed JavaScript. To get a source map, pass
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`--source-map output.js.map` (full path to the file where you want the
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source map dumped).
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Additionally you might need `--source-map-root` to pass the URL where the
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original files can be found. In case you are passing full paths to input
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files to UglifyJS, you can use `--prefix` (`-p`) to specify the number of
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directories to drop from the path prefix when declaring files in the source
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map.
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For example:
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uglifyjs /home/doe/work/foo/src/js/file1.js \
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/home/doe/work/foo/src/js/file2.js \
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-o foo.min.js \
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--source-map foo.min.js.map \
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--source-map-root http://foo.com/src \
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-p 5 -c -m
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The above will compress and mangle `file1.js` and `file2.js`, will drop the
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output in `foo.min.js` and the source map in `foo.min.js.map`. The source
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mapping will refer to `http://foo.com/src/js/file1.js` and
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`http://foo.com/src/js/file2.js` (in fact it will list `http://foo.com/src`
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as the source map root, and the original files as `js/file1.js` and
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`js/file2.js`).
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### Composed source map
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When you're compressing JS code that was output by a compiler such as
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CoffeeScript, mapping to the JS code won't be too helpful. Instead, you'd
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like to map back to the original code (i.e. CoffeeScript). UglifyJS has an
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option to take an input source map. Assuming you have a mapping from
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CoffeeScript → compiled JS, UglifyJS can generate a map from CoffeeScript →
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compressed JS by mapping every token in the compiled JS to its original
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location.
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To use this feature you need to pass `--in-source-map
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/path/to/input/source.map`. Normally the input source map should also point
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to the file containing the generated JS, so if that's correct you can omit
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input files from the command line.
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## Mangler options
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To enable the mangler you need to pass `--mangle` (`-m`). The following
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(comma-separated) options are supported:
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- `sort` — to assign shorter names to most frequently used variables. This
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saves a few hundred bytes on jQuery before gzip, but the output is
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_bigger_ after gzip (and seems to happen for other libraries I tried it
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on) therefore it's not enabled by default.
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- `toplevel` — mangle names declared in the toplevel scope (disabled by
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default).
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- `eval` — mangle names visible in scopes where `eval` or `with` are used
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(disabled by default).
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When mangling is enabled but you want to prevent certain names from being
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mangled, you can declare those names with `--reserved` (`-r`) — pass a
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comma-separated list of names. For example:
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uglifyjs ... -m -r '$,require,exports'
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to prevent the `require`, `exports` and `$` names from being changed.
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### Mangling property names (`--mangle-props`)
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**Note:** this will probably break your code. Mangling property names is a
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separate step, different from variable name mangling. Pass
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`--mangle-props`. It will mangle all properties that are seen in some
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object literal, or that are assigned to. For example:
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```js
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var x = {
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foo: 1
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};
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x.bar = 2;
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x["baz"] = 3;
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x[condition ? "moo" : "boo"] = 4;
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console.log(x.something());
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```
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In the above code, `foo`, `bar`, `baz`, `moo` and `boo` will be replaced
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with single characters, while `something()` will be left as is.
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In order for this to be of any use, we should avoid mangling standard JS
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names. For instance, if your code would contain `x.length = 10`, then
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`length` becomes a candidate for mangling and it will be mangled throughout
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the code, regardless if it's being used as part of your own objects or
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accessing an array's length. To avoid that, you can use `--reserved-file`
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to pass a filename that should contain the names to be excluded from
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mangling. This file can be used both for excluding variable names and
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property names. It could look like this, for example:
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```js
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{
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"vars": [ "define", "require", ... ],
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"props": [ "length", "prototype", ... ]
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}
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```
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`--reserved-file` can be an array of file names (either a single
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comma-separated argument, or you can pass multiple `--reserved-file`
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arguments) — in this case it will exclude names from all those files.
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A default exclusion file is provided in `tools/domprops.json` which should
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cover most standard JS and DOM properties defined in various browsers. Pass
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`--reserve-domprops` to read that in.
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You can also use a regular expression to define which property names should be
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mangled. For example, `--mangle-regex="/^_/"` will only mangle property names
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that start with an underscore.
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When you compress multiple files using this option, in order for them to
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work together in the end we need to ensure somehow that one property gets
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mangled to the same name in all of them. For this, pass `--name-cache
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filename.json` and UglifyJS will maintain these mappings in a file which can
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then be reused. It should be initially empty. Example:
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```
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rm -f /tmp/cache.json # start fresh
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uglifyjs file1.js file2.js --mangle-props --name-cache /tmp/cache.json -o part1.js
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uglifyjs file3.js file4.js --mangle-props --name-cache /tmp/cache.json -o part2.js
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```
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Now, `part1.js` and `part2.js` will be consistent with each other in terms
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of mangled property names.
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Using the name cache is not necessary if you compress all your files in a
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single call to UglifyJS.
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## Compressor options
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You need to pass `--compress` (`-c`) to enable the compressor. Optionally
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you can pass a comma-separated list of options. Options are in the form
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`foo=bar`, or just `foo` (the latter implies a boolean option that you want
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to set `true`; it's effectively a shortcut for `foo=true`).
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- `sequences` -- join consecutive simple statements using the comma operator
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- `properties` -- rewrite property access using the dot notation, for
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example `foo["bar"] → foo.bar`
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- `dead_code` -- remove unreachable code
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- `drop_debugger` -- remove `debugger;` statements
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- `unsafe` (default: false) -- apply "unsafe" transformations (discussion below)
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- `conditionals` -- apply optimizations for `if`-s and conditional
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expressions
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- `comparisons` -- apply certain optimizations to binary nodes, for example:
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`!(a <= b) → a > b` (only when `unsafe`), attempts to negate binary nodes,
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e.g. `a = !b && !c && !d && !e → a=!(b||c||d||e)` etc.
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- `evaluate` -- attempt to evaluate constant expressions
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- `booleans` -- various optimizations for boolean context, for example `!!a
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? b : c → a ? b : c`
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- `loops` -- optimizations for `do`, `while` and `for` loops when we can
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statically determine the condition
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- `unused` -- drop unreferenced functions and variables
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- `hoist_funs` -- hoist function declarations
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- `hoist_vars` (default: false) -- hoist `var` declarations (this is `false`
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by default because it seems to increase the size of the output in general)
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- `if_return` -- optimizations for if/return and if/continue
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- `join_vars` -- join consecutive `var` statements
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- `cascade` -- small optimization for sequences, transform `x, x` into `x`
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and `x = something(), x` into `x = something()`
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- `warnings` -- display warnings when dropping unreachable code or unused
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declarations etc.
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- `negate_iife` -- negate "Immediately-Called Function Expressions"
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where the return value is discarded, to avoid the parens that the
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code generator would insert.
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- `pure_getters` -- the default is `false`. If you pass `true` for
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this, UglifyJS will assume that object property access
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(e.g. `foo.bar` or `foo["bar"]`) doesn't have any side effects.
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- `pure_funcs` -- default `null`. You can pass an array of names and
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UglifyJS will assume that those functions do not produce side
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effects. DANGER: will not check if the name is redefined in scope.
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An example case here, for instance `var q = Math.floor(a/b)`. If
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variable `q` is not used elsewhere, UglifyJS will drop it, but will
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still keep the `Math.floor(a/b)`, not knowing what it does. You can
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pass `pure_funcs: [ 'Math.floor' ]` to let it know that this
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function won't produce any side effect, in which case the whole
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statement would get discarded. The current implementation adds some
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overhead (compression will be slower).
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- `drop_console` -- default `false`. Pass `true` to discard calls to
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`console.*` functions.
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- `keep_fargs` -- default `false`. Pass `true` to prevent the
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compressor from discarding unused function arguments. You need this
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for code which relies on `Function.length`.
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- `keep_fnames` -- default `false`. Pass `true` to prevent the
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compressor from mangling/discarding function names. Useful for code relying on
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`Function.prototype.name`.
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### The `unsafe` option
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It enables some transformations that *might* break code logic in certain
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contrived cases, but should be fine for most code. You might want to try it
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on your own code, it should reduce the minified size. Here's what happens
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when this flag is on:
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- `new Array(1, 2, 3)` or `Array(1, 2, 3)` → `[ 1, 2, 3 ]`
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- `new Object()` → `{}`
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- `String(exp)` or `exp.toString()` → `"" + exp`
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- `new Object/RegExp/Function/Error/Array (...)` → we discard the `new`
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- `typeof foo == "undefined"` → `foo === void 0`
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- `void 0` → `undefined` (if there is a variable named "undefined" in
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scope; we do it because the variable name will be mangled, typically
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reduced to a single character)
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- discards unused function arguments (affects `function.length`)
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### Conditional compilation
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You can use the `--define` (`-d`) switch in order to declare global
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variables that UglifyJS will assume to be constants (unless defined in
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scope). For example if you pass `--define DEBUG=false` then, coupled with
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dead code removal UglifyJS will discard the following from the output:
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```javascript
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if (DEBUG) {
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console.log("debug stuff");
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}
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```
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UglifyJS will warn about the condition being always false and about dropping
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unreachable code; for now there is no option to turn off only this specific
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warning, you can pass `warnings=false` to turn off *all* warnings.
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Another way of doing that is to declare your globals as constants in a
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separate file and include it into the build. For example you can have a
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`build/defines.js` file with the following:
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```javascript
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const DEBUG = false;
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const PRODUCTION = true;
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// etc.
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```
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and build your code like this:
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uglifyjs build/defines.js js/foo.js js/bar.js... -c
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UglifyJS will notice the constants and, since they cannot be altered, it
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will evaluate references to them to the value itself and drop unreachable
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code as usual. The possible downside of this approach is that the build
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will contain the `const` declarations.
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<a name="codegen-options"></a>
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## Beautifier options
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The code generator tries to output shortest code possible by default. In
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case you want beautified output, pass `--beautify` (`-b`). Optionally you
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can pass additional arguments that control the code output:
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- `beautify` (default `true`) -- whether to actually beautify the output.
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Passing `-b` will set this to true, but you might need to pass `-b` even
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when you want to generate minified code, in order to specify additional
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arguments, so you can use `-b beautify=false` to override it.
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- `indent-level` (default 4)
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- `indent-start` (default 0) -- prefix all lines by that many spaces
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- `quote-keys` (default `false`) -- pass `true` to quote all keys in literal
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objects
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- `space-colon` (default `true`) -- insert a space after the colon signs
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- `ascii-only` (default `false`) -- escape Unicode characters in strings and
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regexps
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- `inline-script` (default `false`) -- escape the slash in occurrences of
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`</script` in strings
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- `width` (default 80) -- only takes effect when beautification is on, this
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specifies an (orientative) line width that the beautifier will try to
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obey. It refers to the width of the line text (excluding indentation).
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It doesn't work very well currently, but it does make the code generated
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by UglifyJS more readable.
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- `max-line-len` (default 32000) -- maximum line length (for uglified code)
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- `bracketize` (default `false`) -- always insert brackets in `if`, `for`,
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`do`, `while` or `with` statements, even if their body is a single
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statement.
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- `semicolons` (default `true`) -- separate statements with semicolons. If
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you pass `false` then whenever possible we will use a newline instead of a
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semicolon, leading to more readable output of uglified code (size before
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|
gzip could be smaller; size after gzip insignificantly larger).
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- `preamble` (default `null`) -- when passed it must be a string and
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it will be prepended to the output literally. The source map will
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adjust for this text. Can be used to insert a comment containing
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licensing information, for example.
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- `quote_style` (default `0`) -- preferred quote style for strings (affects
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quoted property names and directives as well):
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- `0` -- prefers double quotes, switches to single quotes when there are
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more double quotes in the string itself.
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- `1` -- always use single quotes
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- `2` -- always use double quotes
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- `3` -- always use the original quotes
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### Keeping copyright notices or other comments
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You can pass `--comments` to retain certain comments in the output. By
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default it will keep JSDoc-style comments that contain "@preserve",
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"@license" or "@cc_on" (conditional compilation for IE). You can pass
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`--comments all` to keep all the comments, or a valid JavaScript regexp to
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keep only comments that match this regexp. For example `--comments
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'/foo|bar/'` will keep only comments that contain "foo" or "bar".
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Note, however, that there might be situations where comments are lost. For
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example:
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```javascript
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function f() {
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/** @preserve Foo Bar */
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function g() {
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// this function is never called
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}
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return something();
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}
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```
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Even though it has "@preserve", the comment will be lost because the inner
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function `g` (which is the AST node to which the comment is attached to) is
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discarded by the compressor as not referenced.
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The safest comments where to place copyright information (or other info that
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needs to be kept in the output) are comments attached to toplevel nodes.
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## Support for the SpiderMonkey AST
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UglifyJS2 has its own abstract syntax tree format; for
|
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[practical reasons](http://lisperator.net/blog/uglifyjs-why-not-switching-to-spidermonkey-ast/)
|
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|
we can't easily change to using the SpiderMonkey AST internally. However,
|
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|
UglifyJS now has a converter which can import a SpiderMonkey AST.
|
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|
For example [Acorn][acorn] is a super-fast parser that produces a
|
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|
|
SpiderMonkey AST. It has a small CLI utility that parses one file and dumps
|
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|
|
the AST in JSON on the standard output. To use UglifyJS to mangle and
|
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|
compress that:
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acorn file.js | uglifyjs --spidermonkey -m -c
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The `--spidermonkey` option tells UglifyJS that all input files are not
|
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|
JavaScript, but JS code described in SpiderMonkey AST in JSON. Therefore we
|
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|
don't use our own parser in this case, but just transform that AST into our
|
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|
internal AST.
|
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|
|
### Use Acorn for parsing
|
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|
More for fun, I added the `--acorn` option which will use Acorn to do all
|
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|
|
the parsing. If you pass this option, UglifyJS will `require("acorn")`.
|
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|
Acorn is really fast (e.g. 250ms instead of 380ms on some 650K code), but
|
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|
|
converting the SpiderMonkey tree that Acorn produces takes another 150ms so
|
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|
|
in total it's a bit more than just using UglifyJS's own parser.
|
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|
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|
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|
|
### Using UglifyJS to transform SpiderMonkey AST
|
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|
|
Now you can use UglifyJS as any other intermediate tool for transforming
|
|
|
|
JavaScript ASTs in SpiderMonkey format.
|
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|
|
|
|
Example:
|
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|
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|
|
```javascript
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|
|
function uglify(ast, options, mangle) {
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|
|
// Conversion from SpiderMonkey AST to internal format
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|
|
var uAST = UglifyJS.AST_Node.from_mozilla_ast(ast);
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// Compression
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|
uAST.figure_out_scope();
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|
uAST = uAST.transform(UglifyJS.Compressor(options));
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|
// Mangling (optional)
|
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|
|
if (mangle) {
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|
|
uAST.figure_out_scope();
|
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|
|
uAST.compute_char_frequency();
|
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|
|
uAST.mangle_names();
|
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|
|
}
|
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|
|
// Back-conversion to SpiderMonkey AST
|
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|
|
return uAST.to_mozilla_ast();
|
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|
|
}
|
|
|
|
```
|
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|
|
Check out
|
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|
|
[original blog post](http://rreverser.com/using-mozilla-ast-with-uglifyjs/)
|
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|
|
for details.
|
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|
|
API Reference
|
|
|
|
-------------
|
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|
|
|
Assuming installation via NPM, you can load UglifyJS in your application
|
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|
|
like this:
|
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|
|
```javascript
|
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|
|
var UglifyJS = require("uglify-js");
|
|
|
|
```
|
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|
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|
|
It exports a lot of names, but I'll discuss here the basics that are needed
|
|
|
|
for parsing, mangling and compressing a piece of code. The sequence is (1)
|
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|
|
parse, (2) compress, (3) mangle, (4) generate output code.
|
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|
|
### The simple way
|
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|
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|
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|
There's a single toplevel function which combines all the steps. If you
|
|
|
|
don't need additional customization, you might want to go with `minify`.
|
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|
|
Example:
|
|
|
|
```javascript
|
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|
|
var result = UglifyJS.minify("/path/to/file.js");
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|
|
console.log(result.code); // minified output
|
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|
|
// if you need to pass code instead of file name
|
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|
|
var result = UglifyJS.minify("var b = function () {};", {fromString: true});
|
|
|
|
```
|
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|
|
You can also compress multiple files:
|
|
|
|
```javascript
|
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|
|
var result = UglifyJS.minify([ "file1.js", "file2.js", "file3.js" ]);
|
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|
|
console.log(result.code);
|
|
|
|
```
|
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|
|
To generate a source map:
|
|
|
|
```javascript
|
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|
|
var result = UglifyJS.minify([ "file1.js", "file2.js", "file3.js" ], {
|
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|
|
outSourceMap: "out.js.map"
|
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|
|
});
|
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|
|
console.log(result.code); // minified output
|
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|
|
console.log(result.map);
|
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|
|
```
|
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|
|
Note that the source map is not saved in a file, it's just returned in
|
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|
|
`result.map`. The value passed for `outSourceMap` is only used to set the
|
|
|
|
`file` attribute in the source map (see [the spec][sm-spec]).
|
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|
|
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|
|
|
You can also specify sourceRoot property to be included in source map:
|
|
|
|
```javascript
|
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|
|
var result = UglifyJS.minify([ "file1.js", "file2.js", "file3.js" ], {
|
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|
|
outSourceMap: "out.js.map",
|
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|
|
sourceRoot: "http://example.com/src"
|
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|
|
});
|
|
|
|
```
|
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|
|
|
If you're compressing compiled JavaScript and have a source map for it, you
|
|
|
|
can use the `inSourceMap` argument:
|
|
|
|
```javascript
|
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|
|
var result = UglifyJS.minify("compiled.js", {
|
|
|
|
inSourceMap: "compiled.js.map",
|
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|
|
outSourceMap: "minified.js.map"
|
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|
|
});
|
|
|
|
// same as before, it returns `code` and `map`
|
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|
|
```
|
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|
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|
|
If your input source map is not in a file, you can pass it in as an object
|
|
|
|
using the `inSourceMap` argument:
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
```javascript
|
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|
|
var result = UglifyJS.minify("compiled.js", {
|
|
|
|
inSourceMap: JSON.parse(my_source_map_string),
|
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|
|
outSourceMap: "minified.js.map"
|
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|
|
});
|
|
|
|
```
|
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|
The `inSourceMap` is only used if you also request `outSourceMap` (it makes
|
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|
|
no sense otherwise).
|
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|
|
Other options:
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|
|
- `warnings` (default `false`) — pass `true` to display compressor warnings.
|
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|
|
- `fromString` (default `false`) — if you pass `true` then you can pass
|
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|
|
JavaScript source code, rather than file names.
|
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|
|
- `mangle` — pass `false` to skip mangling names.
|
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|
|
- `output` (default `null`) — pass an object if you wish to specify
|
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|
|
additional [output options][codegen]. The defaults are optimized
|
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|
|
for best compression.
|
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|
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|
|
- `compress` (default `{}`) — pass `false` to skip compressing entirely.
|
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|
|
Pass an object to specify custom [compressor options][compressor].
|
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|
|
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|
|
We could add more options to `UglifyJS.minify` — if you need additional
|
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|
|
functionality please suggest!
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
### The hard way
|
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|
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|
Following there's more detailed API info, in case the `minify` function is
|
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|
|
too simple for your needs.
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
#### The parser
|
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|
|
```javascript
|
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|
|
var toplevel_ast = UglifyJS.parse(code, options);
|
|
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
`options` is optional and if present it must be an object. The following
|
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|
|
properties are available:
|
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|
|
- `strict` — disable automatic semicolon insertion and support for trailing
|
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|
|
comma in arrays and objects
|
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|
|
- `filename` — the name of the file where this code is coming from
|
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|
|
- `toplevel` — a `toplevel` node (as returned by a previous invocation of
|
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|
|
`parse`)
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
The last two options are useful when you'd like to minify multiple files and
|
|
|
|
get a single file as the output and a proper source map. Our CLI tool does
|
|
|
|
something like this:
|
|
|
|
```javascript
|
|
|
|
var toplevel = null;
|
|
|
|
files.forEach(function(file){
|
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|
|
var code = fs.readFileSync(file, "utf8");
|
|
|
|
toplevel = UglifyJS.parse(code, {
|
|
|
|
filename: file,
|
|
|
|
toplevel: toplevel
|
|
|
|
});
|
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|
|
});
|
|
|
|
```
|
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|
|
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|
|
After this, we have in `toplevel` a big AST containing all our files, with
|
|
|
|
each token having proper information about where it came from.
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
#### Scope information
|
|
|
|
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|
|
UglifyJS contains a scope analyzer that you need to call manually before
|
|
|
|
compressing or mangling. Basically it augments various nodes in the AST
|
|
|
|
with information about where is a name defined, how many times is a name
|
|
|
|
referenced, if it is a global or not, if a function is using `eval` or the
|
|
|
|
`with` statement etc. I will discuss this some place else, for now what's
|
|
|
|
important to know is that you need to call the following before doing
|
|
|
|
anything with the tree:
|
|
|
|
```javascript
|
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|
|
toplevel.figure_out_scope()
|
|
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
#### Compression
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Like this:
|
|
|
|
```javascript
|
|
|
|
var compressor = UglifyJS.Compressor(options);
|
|
|
|
var compressed_ast = toplevel.transform(compressor);
|
|
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The `options` can be missing. Available options are discussed above in
|
|
|
|
“Compressor options”. Defaults should lead to best compression in most
|
|
|
|
scripts.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The compressor is destructive, so don't rely that `toplevel` remains the
|
|
|
|
original tree.
|
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|
|
|
|
#### Mangling
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
After compression it is a good idea to call again `figure_out_scope` (since
|
|
|
|
the compressor might drop unused variables / unreachable code and this might
|
|
|
|
change the number of identifiers or their position). Optionally, you can
|
|
|
|
call a trick that helps after Gzip (counting character frequency in
|
|
|
|
non-mangleable words). Example:
|
|
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```javascript
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compressed_ast.figure_out_scope();
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compressed_ast.compute_char_frequency();
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compressed_ast.mangle_names();
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```
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#### Generating output
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AST nodes have a `print` method that takes an output stream. Essentially,
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to generate code you do this:
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```javascript
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var stream = UglifyJS.OutputStream(options);
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compressed_ast.print(stream);
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var code = stream.toString(); // this is your minified code
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```
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or, for a shortcut you can do:
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```javascript
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var code = compressed_ast.print_to_string(options);
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```
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As usual, `options` is optional. The output stream accepts a lot of options,
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most of them documented above in section “Beautifier options”. The two
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which we care about here are `source_map` and `comments`.
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#### Keeping comments in the output
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In order to keep certain comments in the output you need to pass the
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`comments` option. Pass a RegExp or a function. If you pass a RegExp, only
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those comments whose body matches the regexp will be kept. Note that body
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means without the initial `//` or `/*`. If you pass a function, it will be
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called for every comment in the tree and will receive two arguments: the
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node that the comment is attached to, and the comment token itself.
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The comment token has these properties:
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- `type`: "comment1" for single-line comments or "comment2" for multi-line
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comments
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- `value`: the comment body
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- `pos` and `endpos`: the start/end positions (zero-based indexes) in the
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original code where this comment appears
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- `line` and `col`: the line and column where this comment appears in the
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original code
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- `file` — the file name of the original file
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- `nlb` — true if there was a newline before this comment in the original
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code, or if this comment contains a newline.
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Your function should return `true` to keep the comment, or a falsy value
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otherwise.
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#### Generating a source mapping
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You need to pass the `source_map` argument when calling `print`. It needs
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to be a `SourceMap` object (which is a thin wrapper on top of the
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[source-map][source-map] library).
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Example:
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```javascript
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var source_map = UglifyJS.SourceMap(source_map_options);
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var stream = UglifyJS.OutputStream({
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...
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source_map: source_map
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});
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compressed_ast.print(stream);
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var code = stream.toString();
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var map = source_map.toString(); // json output for your source map
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```
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The `source_map_options` (optional) can contain the following properties:
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- `file`: the name of the JavaScript output file that this mapping refers to
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- `root`: the `sourceRoot` property (see the [spec][sm-spec])
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- `orig`: the "original source map", handy when you compress generated JS
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and want to map the minified output back to the original code where it
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came from. It can be simply a string in JSON, or a JSON object containing
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the original source map.
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[acorn]: https://github.com/marijnh/acorn
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[source-map]: https://github.com/mozilla/source-map
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[sm-spec]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U1RGAehQwRypUTovF1KRlpiOFze0b-_2gc6fAH0KY0k/edit
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[codegen]: http://lisperator.net/uglifyjs/codegen
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[compressor]: http://lisperator.net/uglifyjs/compress
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