I've been working on some projects needing JS minification recently and wanted
to ping others and find out if anyone else would find it useful to have a
mod_perl2 filter that auto-minified your JS (using JavaScript::Minifier)...
Am thinking along the lines of something that you'd set up in your Apache
config like:
<FilesMatch "\.js$">
PerlOutputFilterHandler Apache2::Filter::Minifier::JavaScript
PerlSetVar MINIFIER_CACHE_ROOT /path/to/your/cache/dir
</FilesMatch>
Results would be cached to disk, so that we didn't have to re-minify the JS
files on each and every request. Obviously, if the original file changes,
the cached copy would be considered invalid.
Seeing the above makes me wonder, though... is there a way to set up a Perl
output filter for -just- specific MIME-Types? Similarly to
AddOutputFilterByType, but for mod_perl handlers?
Thought I'd ask and see if others would find something like this useful, or if
you've got suggestions on other ways to do this. I know that I could just
minify all the JS files on disk, but it'd be a whole lot simpler to just set
it up as a filter and not have to worry about it. Also means that I could
turn the filter off during testing and be able to work with the un-minified
JS.
Also thinking that an Apache2::Filter::Minifier::CSS module would be possible
using CSS::Minifier; basically same thing but for CSS instead.
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Graham TerMarsch
