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.

Sounds like an interesting module, and I certainly would use it to serve
my JavaScript. One note however, why implement your own caching mechanisms
when you could very simply just make use of the existing mod_cache framework ?

Apart from that, looking forward to seeing it on CPAN.

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