On Fri, May 18, 2018, at 18:38, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > > As for my general thoughts on minification: use common sense. If you're > > creating one of those pages with 3M of JavaScript then it probably makes > > sense. If you're creating something more sane then it's probably just > > wasted effort at best. > > > Don't create pages with 3MB of Javascript, that's insane.
I agree. My boss, our web designers, and many other people don't, so unfortunately I do have to deal with it. > I think concatenation/bundling in one file is fine, but not > minification, because it makes the source unreadable. I'm not really sure if I understand what the harm in that is as such? I personally find it useful to have the full source for debugging my *own* websites, but I couldn't care less what someone else does with their website. Do you ever read the source of random websites? > Carefully evaluate what you actually use in the site. Don't use > bloated Javascript (such as jQuery) and CSS frameworks (such as > Bootstrap). Sometimes using jQuery or Bootstrap makes sense. It really depends on what you're building. If you're building a more complex website then using jQuery can be perfectly reasonable. For a simpler website with little JS? Probably not.
