- “yui-compressor.jar” is a utility from Yahoo for Css and Java script compression.
- This utility is written Java language.It need minimum of java version 1.4 and above.
- It uses Mozilla’s “Rhino” library for compressing Java script code.
- It has Used Isaac Schlueter Regular Expresion based Algorithm for Css Minification.
- To know more and Download Link:-
- This Demo, “Shows How to use this jar file in windows command prompt to get minified java script file”.
- After downloading the yui compressor jar file set it in the System PATH variable.We can verify by issuing help option in command prompt.
- The screenshot below shows the java script compression which produced a “min” file.
- Lets compress a java script file, I have taken “yui.js” file for compression.This original file size is 328 KB . Here we are compressing this file and saving the file as “sandeep-yui-min.js” file. See the below screenshot,
