This reduces the number of separate network requests, each of which incur non-trivial overhead, and reduces the total data transferred.
Comment #1 by greensunny12 — 2018-03-30T01:47:23Z
The currently optional solution to make POST request to some external site isn't enabled because it doesn't work well.
I just looked at our options in 2018 and it looks really bad.
Everyone just seems to be packaging huge JS bundles or Java archives .. Great :/
I found:
- YUI (Java)
- Closure Compiler (Java)
- https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2 (NPM)
- https://github.com/matthiasmullie/minify (PHP)
I will pick YUI because it's in Debian stable (https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/yui-compressor) and supports JS + CSS.