Minify JavaScript files with UglifyJS
If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:
npm install grunt-contrib-uglify --save-dev
Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-uglify');
Run this task with the grunt uglify
command.
Task targets, files and options may be specified according to the grunt Configuring tasks guide.
This task primarily delegates to UglifyJS, so please consider their documentation as required reading for advanced configuration.
Option | Replacement |
---|---|
ASCIIOnly | output.ascii_only |
enclose | — |
exportAll | — |
expression | parse.expression |
indentLevel | output.indent_level |
mangleProperties | mangle.properties |
maxLineLen | output.max_line_len |
preserveComments | output.comments |
quoteStyle | output.quote_style |
screwIE8 | !ie8 |
sourceMapIncludeSources | sourceMap.includeSources |
sourceMapRoot | sourceMap.root |
sourceMapUrl | sourceMap.url |
Type: Boolean
Object
Default: {}
Turn on or off mangling with default options. If an Object
is specified, it is passed directly to ast.mangle_names()
and ast.compute_char_frequency()
(mimicking command line behavior). View all options here.
Type: Boolean
Object
Default: {}
Turn on or off source compression with default options. If an Object
is specified, it is passed as options to UglifyJS.Compressor()
. View all options here.
Type: Boolean
Object
Default: false
Turns on beautification of the generated source code. View all options here
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Parse a single expression, rather than a program (for parsing JSON)
Type: string
Choices: 'min'
, 'gzip'
Default: 'min'
Report minification result or both minification and gzip results.
This is useful to see exactly how well uglify-js is performing but using 'gzip'
will make the task take 5-10x longer to complete. Example output.
Type: Boolean
Default: false
If true
, a source map file will be generated in the same directory as the dest
file. By default it will have the same basename as the dest
file, but with a .map
extension.
Type: String
Function
Default: undefined
To customize the name or location of the generated source map, pass a string to indicate where to write the source map to. If a function is provided, the uglify destination is passed as the argument and the return value will be used as the file name.
Type: String
Function
Default: undefined
The location of an input source map from an earlier compilation, e.g. from CoffeeScript. If a function is provided, the uglify source is passed as the argument and the return value will be used as the sourceMap name. This only makes sense when there's one source file.
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Pass this flag if you want to include the content of source files in the source map as sourcesContent property.
Type: String
Default: undefined
With this option you can customize root URL that browser will use when looking for sources.
If the sources are not absolute URLs after prepending of the sourceMap.root
, the sources are resolved relative to the source map.
Type: String
Default: undefined
Override the calculated value for sourceMappingURL
in the source map. This is useful if the source map location is not relative to the base path of the minified file, i.e. when using a CDN
Type: String
Default: undefined
Wrap all of the code in a closure, an easy way to make sure nothing is leaking.
For variables that need to be public exports
and global
variables are made available.
The value of wrap is the global variable exports will be available as.
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Enables to encode non-ASCII characters as \uXXXX.
Type: Boolean
String
Function
Default: undefined
Options: false
'all'
'some'
Turn on preservation of comments.
false
will strip all comments'all'
will preserve all comments in code blocks that have not been squashed or dropped'some'
will preserve all comments that include a closure compiler style directive (@preserve
@license
@cc_on
)Function
specify your own comment preservation function. You will be passed the current node and the current comment and are expected to return eithertrue
orfalse
RegExp
'/[RegExp]/'
will preserve comments matching given RegExp or stringified RegExp
Type: String
Default: ''
This string will be prepended to the minified output. Template strings (e.g. <%= config.value %>
) will be expanded automatically.
Type: String
Default: ''
This string will be appended to the minified output. Template strings (e.g. <%= config.value %>
) will be expanded automatically.
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Set this to true
if you still care about full compliance with Internet Explorer 6-8 quirks.
Type: Boolean
Object
Default: false
Turn on or off property mangling with default options. If an Object
is specified, it is passed directly to ast.mangle_properties()
(mimicking command line behavior). View all options here.
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Use this flag in conjunction with mangle.properties
to prevent built-in browser object properties from being mangled.
Type: Array
Default: []
Use this with mangle.properties
to pass one or more JSON files containing a list of variables and object properties
that should not be mangled. See the UglifyJS docs for more info on the file syntax.
Type: String
Default: ''
A string that is a path to a JSON cache file that uglify will create and use to coordinate symbol mangling between
multiple runs of uglify. Note: this generated file uses the same JSON format as the exceptionsFiles
files.
Type: Integer
Default: 0
Preserve or enforce quotation mark style.
0
will use single or double quotes such as to minimize the number of bytes (prefers double quotes when both will do)1
will always use single quotes2
will always use double quotes3
will preserve original quotation marks
This configuration will compress and mangle the input files using the default options.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
my_target: {
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input1.js', 'src/input2.js']
}
}
}
});
Specify mangle: false
to prevent changes to your variable and function names.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
options: {
mangle: false
},
my_target: {
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js']
}
}
}
});
You can specify identifiers to leave untouched with an reserved
array in the mangle
options.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
options: {
mangle: {
reserved: ['jQuery', 'Backbone']
}
},
my_target: {
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js']
}
}
}
});
Generate a source map by setting the sourceMap
option to true
. The generated
source map will be in the same directory as the destination file. Its name will be
the basename of the destination file with a .map
extension. Override these
defaults with the sourceMapName
attribute.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
my_target: {
options: {
sourceMap: true,
sourceMapName: 'path/to/sourcemap.map'
},
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js']
}
}
}
});
Set the sourceMap.includeSources
option to true
to embed your sources directly into the map. To include
a source map from a previous compilation pass it as the value of the sourceMapIn
option.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
my_target: {
options: {
sourceMap: {
includeSources: true
},
sourceMapIn: 'example/coffeescript-sourcemap.js', // input sourcemap from a previous compilation
},
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js'],
},
},
},
});
Refer to the UglifyJS SourceMap Documentation for more information.
Specify drop_console: true
as part of the compress
options to discard calls to console.*
functions.
This will suppress warning messages in the console.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
options: {
compress: {
drop_console: true
}
},
my_target: {
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js']
}
}
}
});
Specify beautify: true
to beautify your code for debugging/troubleshooting purposes.
Pass an object to manually configure any other output options.
See UglifyJS documentation for more information.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
my_target: {
options: {
beautify: true
},
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js']
}
},
my_advanced_target: {
options: {
beautify: {
width: 80
}
},
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js']
}
}
}
});
In this example, running grunt uglify:my_target
will prepend a banner created by interpolating the banner
template string with the config object. Here, those properties are the values imported from the package.json
file (which are available via the pkg
config property) plus today's date.
Note: you don't have to use an external JSON file. It's also valid to create the pkg
object inline in the config. That being said, if you already have a JSON file, you might as well reference it.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
uglify: {
options: {
banner: '/*! <%= pkg.name %> - v<%= pkg.version %> - ' +
'<%= grunt.template.today("yyyy-mm-dd") %> */'
},
my_target: {
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js']
}
}
}
});
You can also enable UglifyJS conditional compilation. This is commonly used to remove debug code blocks for production builds. This is equivalent to the command line --define
option.
See UglifyJS global definitions documentation for more information.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
options: {
compress: {
global_defs: {
'DEBUG': false
},
dead_code: true
}
},
my_target: {
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js']
}
}
}
});
This configuration will compress and mangle the files dynamically.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
my_target: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: 'src/js',
src: '**/*.js',
dest: 'dest/js'
}]
}
}
});
This configuration will compress and mangle all js files separately in each folder.
Also exclude jQuery for mangling and ignore all *.min.js
files.
// Project configuration.
uglify: {
dev: {
options: {
mangle: {
reserved: ['jQuery']
}
},
files: [{
expand: true,
src: ['dist/assets/js/*.js', '!dist/assets/js/*.min.js'],
dest: 'dist/assets',
cwd: '.',
rename: function (dst, src) {
// To keep the source js files and make new files as `*.min.js`:
// return dst + '/' + src.replace('.js', '.min.js');
// Or to override to src:
return src;
}
}]
}
},
This configuration will turn on object property name mangling, but not mangle built-in browser object properties.
Additionally, variables and object properties listed in the myExceptionsFile.json
will be mangled. For more info,
on the format of the exception file format please see the UglifyJS docs.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
options: {
mangle: {
properties: true
},
reserveDOMCache: true,
exceptionsFiles: [ 'myExceptionsFile.json' ]
},
my_target: {
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js']
}
}
}
});
Turn on use of name mangling cache to coordinate mangled symbols between outputted uglify files. uglify will the
generate a JSON cache file with the name provided in the options. Note: this generated file uses the same JSON format
as the exceptionsFiles
files.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
options: {
nameCache: '.tmp/grunt-uglify-cache.json',
},
my_target: {
files: {
'dest/output1.min.js': ['src/input1.js'],
'dest/output2.min.js': ['src/input2.js']
}
}
}
});
- 2018-07-29 v3.4.0 Update uglify-js to v3.4.0.
- 2017-12-24 v3.3.0 Update uglify-js to v3.3.0.
- 2017-11-26 v3.2.1 Update uglify-js to v3.2.0.
- 2017-09-11 v3.1.0 Update uglify-js to v3.1.0.
- 2017-05-20 v3.0.1 Fix toplevel option.
- 2017-05-12 v3.0.0 Update uglify-js to v3.0.4.
- 2017-04-05 v2.3.0 Make CLI output less verbose.
- 2017-03-31 v2.2.1 Fix banner option.
- 2017-03-01 v2.2.0 Update uglify-js to v2.8.3.
- 2017-02-08 v2.1.0 Show size changes in output. Switch to
object.assign
. - 2016-07-19 v2.0.0 Update uglify-js to v2.7.0.
screwIE8
is enabled by default. - 2016-07-19 v1.0.2 Update grunt to ^1.0.0. Fix
beautify
when passed as an object. Fix docs aboutreport
values. - 2016-03-16 v1.0.1 Downgrade maxmin for Node.js 0.10.
- 2016-03-04 v1.0.0 Use uglify-js ~2.6.2 to fix sourcemap issue. Improve docs for
global-defs
and--define
options. AddsourceMapUrl
option. Addbare_returns
option. Optionally set report verbosity level using report option. - 2016-01-29 v0.11.1 Update lodash to ^4.0.1. Update grunt-contrib-clean to ^0.7.0. Update grunt-contrib-jshint to ^0.12.0.
- 2015-11-20 v0.11.0 Update uglify-js to ~2.6.0.
- 2015-11-12 v0.10.1 Update uglify-js to ~2.5.
- 2015-10-27 v0.10.0 Update uglify-js to ^2.5.
- 2015-08-24 v0.9.2 Update uglify-js to ^2.4.24
- 2015-04-07 v0.9.1 More fixes for
mangle
options. - 2015-04-07 v0.9.0 Add hook into uglify-js's mangling functionality.
- 2015-03-30 v0.8.1 Lock uglify-js to 2.4.17 due to breaking changes.
- 2015-02-19 v0.8.0 Add
screwIE8
option. Fix issue with explicitcompress
in Node.js 0.12.0. - 2014-12-23 v0.7.0 Add
sourceMapRoot
options. Update readme descriptions. Remove reference to clean-css. - 2014-09-17 v0.6.0 Output fixes. Add
ASCIIOnly
option. Other fixes. - 2014-07-25 v0.5.1 Update chalk to ^0.5.1. Output updates.
- 2014-03-01 v0.4.0 Remove grunt-lib-contrib dependency and add more colors.
- 2014-02-27 v0.3.3 Remove unnecessary calls to
grunt.template.process
. - 2014-01-22 v0.3.2 Fix handling of
sourceMapIncludeSources
option. - 2014-01-20 v0.3.1 Fix relative path issue in sourcemaps.
- 2014-01-16 v0.3.0 Refactor sourcemap support.
- 2013-11-09 v0.2.7 Prepend banner if
sourceMap
option not set, addresses #109. - 2013-11-08 v0.2.6 Merge #45, #53, #85 (#105 by way of duping #53). Add support for banners in uglified files with sourcemaps. Update docs.
- 2013-10-28 v0.2.5 Add warning for banners when using sourcemaps.
- 2013-09-02 v0.2.4 Update sourcemap format via #83.
- 2013-06-10 v0.2.3 Add
footer
option. - 2013-05-31 v0.2.2 Revert #56 due to #58 until chrome/239660 firefox/870361 drop.
- 2013-05-22 v0.2.1 Update uglify-js to ~2.3.5 #55 #40. Change
sourcemappingUrl
syntax #56. Disable sorting of names for consistent mangling #44. Update docs forsourceMapRoot
#47 #25. - 2013-03-14 v0.2.0 No longer report gzip results by default. Support
report
option. - 2013-01-30 v0.1.2 Add better error reporting. Support for dynamic names of multiple sourcemaps.
- 2013-02-15 v0.1.1 First official release for Grunt 0.4.0.
- 2013-01-18 v0.1.1rc6 Update grunt/gruntplugin dependencies to rc6. Change in-development grunt/gruntplugin dependency versions from tilde version ranges to specific versions.
- 2013-01-09 v0.1.1rc5 Update to work with grunt v0.4.0rc5. Switch back to
this.files
API. - 2012-11-28 v0.1.0 Work in progress, not officially released yet.
Task submitted by "Cowboy" Ben Alman
This file was generated on Sun Jul 29 2018 01:52:18.