> Let me know what you all think. 

*Comprehensive*, is what I think. Kudos.

On Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 2:33:24 PM UTC-6 saq.i...@gmail.com wrote:

> @Flibbles hurrah! This has immediate implications and uses for work that 
> my colleagues are doing and potentially for myself, where being able to 
> reduce the file size of a standalone TW file is essential.
>
> I will give it a whirl tomorrow.
> Thank you.
>
> Saq
>
>
> On Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 9:26:32 PM UTC+1 Flibbles wrote:
>
>> Some people want a minified version of the TW5 core, but it'd be too much 
>> work to maintain.
>> Some people think it should remain uncompressed for the sake of editors, 
>> but TW5 continues to grow by the day.
>> Some developers compress their plugins, making efficient code, but it's a 
>> pain for anyone debugging it.
>> Some developers leave their plugins uncompressed, but that means it's 
>> larger than necessary for 90% of all end-users.
>>
>> Now there's a solution for everybody: TW5-uglify.
>>
>> This is a plugin primarily designed to be used by a Node.JS server. Your 
>> server has access to all your uncompressed and unpacked plugins, which is 
>> fine, since servers have the speed and memory for it. But what it sends to 
>> browsers are fully compressed plugins. Your little smart phones and tablets 
>> get the efficient TW5 they deserve.
>>
>> Or maybe you're a plugin developer who wants to minify their code. Now 
>> you no longer have to resort to using npm-gulp like some kind of chump. 
>> Your build process can remain an entirely TiddlyWiki process.
>>
>> Or maybe you want to miniify your standalone TiddlyWiki file. You can, 
>> but... think hard about this before you do it. Because unlike with 
>> TW5-Uglified server, compressing your standalone files is a one-way 
>> process. You'll forever have compressed code unless you download a new 
>> Tiddlywiki, redownload all your plugins, and transfer all your tiddlers 
>> from your old file. But hey! Maybe you're running TiddlyWiki on your 2000 
>> era Nokia phone in an wifi wasteland. Then go ahead.
>>
>> Check it out.
>> Here's the demo site. <https://flibbles.github.io/tw5-uglify/>
>> And here's the github page <https://github.com/flibbles/tw5-uglify>.
>>
>> Let me know what you all think.
>>
>>

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