CSS and Javascript Compression in Eclipse IDE
The Internet is evolving, and with it is developing a set of web developers. Javascript and CSS today are the main technologies that allow you to hang various kinds of interactive functionality on a page. As a rule, all CSS styles and JS libraries are stored in separate files, and are connected to the page using specific commands. These libraries tend to grow, and web developers have to come up with ways to compress them somehow. Already there are quite a few different developments that cope with this task.
Well, of course, we want to have this functionality in our favorite Eclipse IDE. As we all know, Eclipse has the ability to install additional extensions - plugins.
Well, I set out to find some kind of plug-in that will make life easier in terms of automating the compression of js and css files. I came across Rockstartapps jsLex, frankly, I just couldn’t find anything better than this.
jsLex is a set of tools for optimizing CSS and Javascript on your site. Here is a list of its features:
Here are some more video materials that clearly demonstrate the capabilities of this development:
Links for installing the plugin:
http://www.rockstarapps.com/update
http://www.rockstarapps.com/update-beta
Well, of course, we want to have this functionality in our favorite Eclipse IDE. As we all know, Eclipse has the ability to install additional extensions - plugins.
Well, I set out to find some kind of plug-in that will make life easier in terms of automating the compression of js and css files. I came across Rockstartapps jsLex, frankly, I just couldn’t find anything better than this.
jsLex is a set of tools for optimizing CSS and Javascript on your site. Here is a list of its features:
- Optimization of the selected file
- Optimization of selected elements in HTML file
- Automatic processing of files included with the import statement in CSS
- Ability to re-optimize an already optimized file through an option in the context menu.
- The ability to automatically track optimized files - if the original is changed, the file will be optimized again.
- Corrects global paths in the url () operator to the corresponding relative to the file being processed
- Export javascript and CSS to files
- Concatenate selected Javascript or CSS
- There is an option to use YUI Compressor to optimize Javascript and CSS
- GZIP Compression Option for Javascript and CSS
- It is possible to create sprites
Here are some more video materials that clearly demonstrate the capabilities of this development:
Links for installing the plugin:
http://www.rockstarapps.com/update
http://www.rockstarapps.com/update-beta
