Minifier

This tool is a file minifier/bundler/obfuscator written in c++. You can minify all sorts of file types.
Eg. html, css, js, xml...
UTF-8 compatible

Compile and setup

Linux:

• sudo apt update && sudo apt install build-essential
• cd [path-to-minifier]
• g++ main.cpp obfuscate.cpp -std=gnu++17 -lstdc++fs -Wall -Ofast -o minifier
• sudo ln -s `pwd`/minifier /usr/local/bin/minifier

Windows:

• Download and install MinGW
• Type into windows search-box "run terminal"
• cd [path-to-minifier]
• g++ main.cpp obfuscate.cpp -std=gnu++17 -lstdc++fs -Wall -Ofast -o minifier
• path=%cd%;%path%

Usage

Arguments

Give this program as an argument the filename/-names you want to minify.
If you have multiple files, they'll be bundled into single one.
Output filename is optional. If it's not specified, output will be printed to stdout.

Options

-h Help
-v Version info
-i Input filename
-o Output filename
-w Change output file acces mode to overwrite. Default mode is append.
-t Log results after minify. (time & compression)
-f Obfuscate javascript variables

Example

minifier -i bigAssFile.js -wtf -o bigAssFile.min.js

Benchmark

+500kB bigAssFile.js minification took 33ms
@Intel® Core™ i5 CPU M 520 @ 2.40GHz × 4, Debian GNU/Linux10 64-bit

Notes

By minify, it means that it properly removes whitespaces, tabs, etc. and also comments.
After minify, javaScript parsers automatic semicolon insertion won't work anymore.