Enyo comes with a minification tool based on NodeJS and UglifyJS.
This tool can be used to compress the framework, other libraries, and applications, and will keep load order intact as well as correct url paths in css.
Compressing enyo apps greatly reduces load times of appliactions, as well as reducing overall code size.
This way, you can be very verbose in the documentation of your source code, without that impacting the performance of your application in production.
For enyo, the libraries, and your code: external assets such as images will not be copied or moved.
Instead, the CSS url paths are fixed up to reference the new path from the build location.
To compress your application, you must enter the minify folder and run one of the scripts.
- On Windows, just double click on
minify.bat - On Mac and Linux, run
minify.sh
Both scripts will run the minification tool located in enyo/tools/minify, and make a build of enyo, then a build of your app.
Any libraries referenced in your package.js manifest will be built into your app's built code.
NOTE: The package.js file inside the minify folder is mandatory, and only references your app's package.js to keep paths correct. Do not modify this.
After running the minify script, a new folder build will be located next to your source directory.
In it will be 4 files:
- enyo.css
- enyo.js
- app.css
- app.js
These files will be loaded in the given order by index.html.
The deploy scripts included here will make a production ready copy of your application, and copy it into a packeagable folder.
Just execute the platform specific deploy script.
The output of the deploy scripts will minify your appliaction, and copy the necessary files into deploy/<appname>-<date>-<time>/.
If the libraries have a compatible deploy script, they will be executed, and a minimal copy will be placed in the deployment's lib folder.
If no deploy script is found for the library, all of the library is copied into the lib folder to provide maximum safety.