I could use something like this. Right now I use Toolkit Template to
build from.
It already caches the JS file loaded from disk. I would want to then
put it through
the minifier process and cache then serve. Would you module allow
for this?
-bop
On Sep 19, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Graham TerMarsch wrote:
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.
--
Graham TerMarsch
