google-closure-compiler

I was wondering, since Clojure Compiler and UglifyJS not only optimize code for size but also for performance (although I think size is the main priority), would my node.js app run faster if it was minified ? I know it may depend from app, but I'm asking this in general. In node, the main processing cost is I/O operations, not the actual JavaScript itself. So for example: fs.readFile(myFile, function (err, data) { processTheFile(data); }); Here, the gap between calling readFile and the callback being fired will be several times longer than the length of time the callback takes. (If it's the

I'm using Grunt (task-based command line build tool for JavaScript projects) in my project. I've created a custom tag and I am wondering if it is possible to run a command into it. To clarify, I'm trying to use Closure Templates and "the task" should call the jar file to pre-compile the Soy file to a javascript file. I'm running this jar from command line, but I want to set it as a task. Alternatively you could load in grunt plugins to help this: grunt-shell example: shell: { make_directory: { command: 'mkdir test' } } or grunt-exec example: exec: { remove_logs: { command: 'rm -f *.log' },

I want to use the google closure compiler on the javascript source we're using. In development mode we tend to break functionality to lots of files but for production would like to have them combined into modules. When calling the compiler I can give it a list of files to include for compilation, but the output of that shows that the compiler did not save the order of the files list. I searched about it and found that I can use goog.provide/good.require in order to control the dependencies between the different js files. The problem with that is that it adds code to my js which I just don't

I'm generating a javascript on the server like and would like to run Google Clousure Compiler to be ran on the php source code of the script. var jsvar = <?=$var ? true : false ?>; Just wandering if there is any way in telling the compiler to skip optimazation of ? Like a regexp skip: /<\?=.*?\?>/ Best regards, Niclas I have found that my code is much easier to maintain when I separate my client-side JavaScript from my server-side logic. Now I write my scripts such that my server-side processing emits initialization variables. Example - Server Side: <?php echo 'var mynamespace = {};