I want to uglify then minify my AngularJS source codes. I have been searching for samples then I found grunt but grunt needs NodeJS our website does not run with NodeJS.
I can't find any good alternatives.
Any ideas?
2 Answers
Uglify code is only needed when you want to publish your code. The server doesn't need it, because it doesn't take into account spaces in code.
3 Comments
shaunhusain
@Rabbid76 this actually does point closer to an answer, based on the OPs comments they are not understanding that you can run the uglification scripts with any given technology and not be actively running that technology on the server, which is what this answer says.
Ken Tapdasan
Thank you for the answer. I want to uglify and minify it on the development machine then and put the output to our server do you have basic instructions how? I'm a newbie sorry I can't much understand super complex codes.
To clear some things up I'm showing what "grunt" is on my development machine below:
shaun@laptop:~/.npm$ which grunt
/home/shaun/local/bin/grunt
shaun@laptop:~/.npm$ ls -al /home/shaun/local/bin/grunt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 shaun shaun 39 Apr 15 2015 /home/shaun/local/bin/grunt -> ../lib/node_modules/grunt-cli/bin/grunt
shaun@laptop:~/.npm$ cat /home/shaun/local/lib/node_modules/grunt-cli/bin/grunt
#!/usr/bin/env node
'use strict';
process.title = 'grunt';
// Especially badass external libs.
var findup = require('findup-sync');
var resolve = require('resolve').sync;
// Internal libs.
var options = require('../lib/cli').options;
var completion = require('../lib/completion');
var info = require('../lib/info');
var path = require('path');
var basedir = process.cwd();
var gruntpath;
// Do stuff based on CLI options.
if ('completion' in options) {
completion.print(options.completion);
} else if (options.version) {
info.version();
} else if (options.base && !options.gruntfile) {
basedir = path.resolve(options.base);
} else if (options.gruntfile) {
basedir = path.resolve(path.dirname(options.gruntfile));
}
try {
gruntpath = resolve('grunt', {basedir: basedir});
} catch (ex) {
gruntpath = findup('lib/grunt.js');
// No grunt install found!
if (!gruntpath) {
if (options.version) { process.exit(); }
if (options.help) { info.help(); }
info.fatal('Unable to find local grunt.', 99);
}
}
// Everything looks good. Require local grunt and run it.
require(gruntpath).cli();
As you can see Grunt is a node script so it does require node to run a grunt based plugin. That said you can just download and run any node script from github or wherever, they are just JS files.
https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2
^^ if you were to clone the above repository and had node installed you could just run
git clone https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2.git
cd UglifyJS2
bin/uglify -m -- /full/path/to/input.js
# note the above assumes you already have node installed on the
# development machine since the bin/uglify file is interpreted/run
# by node VM
This will output the mangled js which you can then put on the server (without node at all). To reiterate your build process/tools don't need to be installed on the server (probably shouldn't be ideally).
gruntdoes not need nodejs at all. Sure grunt usesnpmbut that has nothing to do with your production server.