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Minifying web files?

So, I've just gotten started with developing an actually useful website :o and I want to make sure that everyone is moderately able to load the page, even on a slow connection. Right now, I'm trying to figure out how I can simply minify the .js, .css and .html files for it, but I'm finding that there's a lot of tools that do each thing really well... but not one that just does everything.

I madly respect everyone that makes minify-ers, but I don't want 4 global node packages and 3 brew formulae just to minify the files.

Is their any one-size-fits-all minifying tool for the web?

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Ben Halpern

Hmmm that's a good question. I'd think this should be part of your deployment, something you don't have to think about unless you want to change. Perhaps part of CI?

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Ghost

To be completely honest, I don't use a CI workflow - 99.9% of the time, I'm making the commits directly instead of going through a pull request, and since I'm deploying through GitHub Pages... any other ideas? I'm happy to run a command, but I don't want a huge list of 6 of them or whatever that I need to run every time I want to make a small change.