jzfdav / minify_recursive

Minify all css or js in a folder recursively using YUIcompressor

minify_recursive

Minify_recursive is a shell script that uses YUICOMPRESSOR to minify all css and js files recursively in a directory.

Requirements

The only requirement is to install YUICOMPRESSOR https://github.com/yui/yuicompressor

Installation

1. Configure path to YUICOMPRESSOR_PATH by editing the minify_recursive.sh file
2. Create a soft link of minify_recursive script in /usr/local/bin ln -s minify_recursive.sh /usr/local/bin/minify_recursive
3. Give execute permission to minify_recursive script chmod +x minify_recursive.sh

Use case #1 (My usecase)

I had a project and wanted to create a git pre hook to recursively minify all files in my project. Hence this small script came into existence. It does 1 thing and does it pretty well for me. Minify all files in a directory and put it in minified directory.

Here how it works

I have throwed this shell script into /usr/local/bin

• minify_recursive css # This will recursively minify all css in your pwd (present directory)
• minify_recursive js # Recursively minify all js file in pwd
• minify_recursive js /var/www/html/myproject # This will recursively minify all js file in myproject directory.

If your using drupal like me, you can use

• hook_js_alter($javascript)
• hook_css_alter($css)

and point your css and js in your custom directory to minified folder created by this script