[Lazarus] Fast-small utilities for common javascript tasks, anyone?

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Thu Oct 6 23:01:49 CEST 2016



On Thu, 6 Oct 2016, Leonardo M. Ramé via Lazarus wrote:

> Hi, as some of you I mix Lazarus/FPC applications with 
> Javascript/HTML/CSS web sites. As you know, the trend now is using 
> NodeJs for everything, but as I see it too bloated I'm looking for small 
> utilities to do the usual tasks, I mean minifying, linting, uglifying.
>
> I'm not neccesarily looking for programs developed using FPC, those can 
> be done in C (like jsmin from Douglas Crockford) or C++, or any other 
> compiled language without dependencies (please, not Java nor .Net).

I have translated jsmin to pascal and use that version. 
I can commit it to fcl-js.

> Why I ask this here?, well, first of all, because this is a very 
> friendly community, many of you think as I that software should be as 
> least bloated as possible, also because I asked this before on the 
> javascript irc channel and everyone uses NodeJs there, also I've got 
> many -1s in StackOverflow for asking for specific 3rd party utilities.

I use the lazarus IDE for writing js code. 
I made a IDE extension that lets you check the JS code using fcl-js.
Adding the jsmin tool should be easy.

Michael.


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