Re: [Cuirass] JavaScript work

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> writes:

> I'm wondering though what the net gain of minification is
> with current bandwiths.  On the few sites that I use javascript on I just
> ship the preferred readable code.

JavaScript libraries can weigh several megabytes unminified.  With
minification applied to the concatenation of all JavaScript code we can
reduce the number of requests that need to be made and the weight of the
request.

[I remember that accessing anything JavaScript heavy (by byte-count) was
no fun in China.]

But minification may not be worth it anyway once we get rid of all
unnecessary JavaScript like jQuery, bootstrap, and DT.

-- 
Ricardo