Google Closure minifier online?

Question

Has anyone setup an online copy/paste utility for Google's Closure minifier?

I'm working on a project and I want to minify part of the code manually without having to setup the entire project on my own.

Solution 1

How about google's own service: http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/home

I should point out that "setting up the entire project on my own" really is not half as scary as you make it out to be :p.

I mean, it's a matter of downloading a java.jar and running it. Instructions:

1. Download at http://closure-compiler.googlecode.com/files/compiler-latest.zip
2. Unzip

3. run java command line:

   java -jar compiler.jar --js script-src.js --js_output_file script-compiled.js

where <compiler.jar> is the full location to the compiler.jar file in the downloaded archive, script-src.js is the full filename of the source file, and script-compiled.js is the full filename of the result.

Solution 2

Google offers the Closure Compiler via REST API, which you can invoke from a shell

https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/gettingstarted_api

curl -v \
    -d code_url=http://server/js/file-big.js \
    -d compilation_level=ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS \
    -d output_info=compiled_code \
    -d output_format=text \
    http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/compile \
    > radix.min.js

Comments

[Roland Bouman]

Geuis, please check my answer. Was it helpful to you? If so, please check it as answered. TIA

[Geuis]

This is great. Thanks so much for setting this up.

[Roland Bouman]

Geuis, I didn't set it up. Google did.

[Muhammad Muazzam]

@Ronald is this works same either download or do it online to minify js? I did online, size reduced but no improvement for page insight

[Roland Bouman]

? Don't understand the question. You tried it and you are unhappy, try contacting Google.

[ErnestV]

Current link provided by Google is dl.google.com/closure-compiler/compiler-latest.zip

[milahu]

latest closure-compiler-*.jar is on maven > version (sample: v20200830) > files > jar