grunt-contrib-uglify v5.2.1
Minify JavaScript files with UglifyJS
Getting Started
If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:
npm install grunt-contrib-uglify --save-dev
Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-uglify');
Uglify task
Run this task with the grunt uglify
command.
Task targets, files and options may be specified according to the grunt Configuring tasks guide.
Options
This task primarily delegates to UglifyJS, so please consider their documentation as required reading for advanced configuration.
2.x
Deprecated options from Option | Replacement |
---|---|
ASCIIOnly | output.ascii_only |
enclose | β |
exportAll | β |
expression | parse.expression |
indentLevel | output.indent_level |
mangleProperties | mangle.properties |
maxLineLen | output.max_line_len |
preserveComments | output.comments |
quoteStyle | output.quote_style |
screwIE8 | !ie8 |
sourceMapIncludeSources | sourceMap.includeSources |
sourceMapRoot | sourceMap.root |
sourceMapUrl | sourceMap.url |
mangle
Type: Boolean
Object
Default: {}
Turn on or off mangling with default options. If an Object
is specified, it is passed directly to ast.mangle_names()
and ast.compute_char_frequency()
(mimicking command line behavior). View all options here.
compress
Type: Boolean
Object
Default: {}
Turn on or off source compression with default options. If an Object
is specified, it is passed as options to UglifyJS.Compressor()
. View all options here.
beautify
Type: Boolean
Object
Default: false
Turns on beautification of the generated source code. View all options here
parse.expression
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Parse a single expression, rather than a program (for parsing JSON)
report
Type: string
Choices: 'min'
, 'gzip'
Default: 'min'
Report minification result or both minification and gzip results.
This is useful to see exactly how well uglify-js is performing but using 'gzip'
will make the task take 5-10x longer to complete. Example output.
sourceMap
Type: Boolean
Default: false
If true
, a source map file will be generated in the same directory as the dest
file. By default it will have the same basename as the dest
file, but with a .map
extension.
sourceMapName
Type: String
Function
Default: undefined
To customize the name or location of the generated source map, pass a string to indicate where to write the source map to. If a function is provided, the uglify destination is passed as the argument and the return value will be used as the file name.
sourceMapIn
Type: String
Function
Default: undefined
The location of an input source map from an earlier compilation, e.g. from CoffeeScript. If a function is provided, the uglify source is passed as the argument and the return value will be used as the sourceMap name. This only makes sense when there's one source file.
sourceMap.includeSources
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Pass this flag if you want to include the content of source files in the source map as sourcesContent property.
sourceMap.root
Type: String
Default: undefined
With this option you can customize root URL that browser will use when looking for sources.
If the sources are not absolute URLs after prepending of the sourceMap.root
, the sources are resolved relative to the source map.
sourceMap.url
Type: String
Default: undefined
Override the calculated value for sourceMappingURL
in the source map. This is useful if the source map location is not relative to the base path of the minified file, i.e. when using a CDN
wrap
Type: String
Default: undefined
Wrap all of the code in a closure, an easy way to make sure nothing is leaking.
For variables that need to be public exports
and global
variables are made available.
The value of wrap is the global variable exports will be available as.
output.ascii_only
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Enables to encode non-ASCII characters as \uXXXX.
output.comments
Type: Boolean
String
Function
Default: undefined
Options: false
'all'
'some'
Turn on preservation of comments.
false
will strip all comments'all'
will preserve all comments in code blocks that have not been squashed or dropped'some'
will preserve all comments that include a closure compiler style directive (@preserve
@license
@cc_on
)Function
specify your own comment preservation function. You will be passed the current node and the current comment and are expected to return eithertrue
orfalse
RegExp
'/[RegExp]/'
will preserve comments matching given RegExp or stringified RegExp
banner
Type: String
Default: ''
This string will be prepended to the minified output. Template strings (e.g. <%= config.value %>
) will be expanded automatically.
footer
Type: String
Default: ''
This string will be appended to the minified output. Template strings (e.g. <%= config.value %>
) will be expanded automatically.
ie8
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Set this to true
if you still care about full compliance with Internet Explorer 6-8 quirks.
mangle.properties
Type: Boolean
Object
Default: false
Turn on or off property mangling with default options. If an Object
is specified, it is passed directly to ast.mangle_properties()
(mimicking command line behavior). View all options here.
reserveDOMProperties
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Use this flag in conjunction with mangle.properties
to prevent built-in browser object properties from being mangled.
exceptionsFiles
Type: Array
Default: []
Use this with mangle.properties
to pass one or more JSON files containing a list of variables and object properties
that should not be mangled. See the UglifyJS docs for more info on the file syntax.
nameCache
Type: String
Default: ''
A string that is a path to a JSON cache file that uglify will create and use to coordinate symbol mangling between
multiple runs of uglify. Note: this generated file uses the same JSON format as the exceptionsFiles
files.
output.quote_style
Type: Integer
Default: 0
Preserve or enforce quotation mark style.
0
will use single or double quotes such as to minimize the number of bytes (prefers double quotes when both will do)1
will always use single quotes2
will always use double quotes3
will preserve original quotation marks
Usage examples
Basic compression
This configuration will compress and mangle the input files using the default options.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
my_target: {
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input1.js', 'src/input2.js']
}
}
}
});
No mangling
Specify mangle: false
to prevent changes to your variable and function names.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
options: {
mangle: false
},
my_target: {
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js']
}
}
}
});
Reserved identifiers
You can specify identifiers to leave untouched with an reserved
array in the mangle
options.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
options: {
mangle: {
reserved: ['jQuery', 'Backbone']
}
},
my_target: {
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js']
}
}
}
});
Source maps
Generate a source map by setting the sourceMap
option to true
. The generated
source map will be in the same directory as the destination file. Its name will be
the basename of the destination file with a .map
extension. Override these
defaults with the sourceMapName
attribute.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
my_target: {
options: {
sourceMap: true,
sourceMapName: 'path/to/sourcemap.map'
},
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js']
}
}
}
});
Advanced source maps
Set the sourceMap.includeSources
option to true
to embed your sources directly into the map. To include
a source map from a previous compilation pass it as the value of the sourceMapIn
option.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
my_target: {
options: {
sourceMap: {
includeSources: true
},
sourceMapIn: 'example/coffeescript-sourcemap.js', // input sourcemap from a previous compilation
},
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js'],
},
},
},
});
Refer to the UglifyJS SourceMap Documentation for more information.
Turn off console warnings
Specify drop_console: true
as part of the compress
options to discard calls to console.*
functions.
This will suppress warning messages in the console.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
options: {
compress: {
drop_console: true
}
},
my_target: {
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js']
}
}
}
});
Beautify
Specify beautify: true
to beautify your code for debugging/troubleshooting purposes.
Pass an object to manually configure any other output options.
See UglifyJS documentation for more information.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
my_target: {
options: {
beautify: true
},
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js']
}
},
my_advanced_target: {
options: {
beautify: {
width: 80
}
},
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js']
}
}
}
});
Banner comments
In this example, running grunt uglify:my_target
will prepend a banner created by interpolating the banner
template string with the config object. Here, those properties are the values imported from the package.json
file (which are available via the pkg
config property) plus today's date.
Note: you don't have to use an external JSON file. It's also valid to create the pkg
object inline in the config. That being said, if you already have a JSON file, you might as well reference it.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
uglify: {
options: {
banner: '/*! <%= pkg.name %> - v<%= pkg.version %> - ' +
'<%= grunt.template.today("yyyy-mm-dd") %> */'
},
my_target: {
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js']
}
}
}
});
Conditional compilation
You can also enable UglifyJS conditional compilation. This is commonly used to remove debug code blocks for production builds. This is equivalent to the command line --define
option.
See UglifyJS global definitions documentation for more information.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
options: {
compress: {
global_defs: {
'DEBUG': false
},
dead_code: true
}
},
my_target: {
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js']
}
}
}
});
Compiling all files in a folder dynamically
This configuration will compress and mangle the files dynamically.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
my_target: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: 'src/js',
src: '**/*.js',
dest: 'dest/js'
}]
}
}
});
Compiling all files separately in the each their path
This configuration will compress and mangle all js files separately in each folder.
Also exclude jQuery for mangling and ignore all *.min.js
files.
// Project configuration.
uglify: {
dev: {
options: {
mangle: {
reserved: ['jQuery']
}
},
files: [{
expand: true,
src: ['dist/assets/js/*.js', '!dist/assets/js/*.min.js'],
dest: 'dist/assets',
cwd: '.',
rename: function (dst, src) {
// To keep the source js files and make new files as `*.min.js`:
// return dst + '/' + src.replace('.js', '.min.js');
// Or to override to src:
return src;
}
}]
}
},
Turn on object property name mangling
This configuration will turn on object property name mangling, but not mangle built-in browser object properties.
Additionally, variables and object properties listed in the myExceptionsFile.json
will be mangled. For more info,
on the format of the exception file format please see the UglifyJS docs.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
options: {
mangle: {
properties: true
},
reserveDOMProperties: true,
exceptionsFiles: [ 'myExceptionsFile.json' ]
},
my_target: {
files: {
'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input.js']
}
}
}
});
Turn on use of name mangling cache
Turn on use of name mangling cache to coordinate mangled symbols between outputted uglify files. uglify will the
generate a JSON cache file with the name provided in the options. Note: this generated file uses the same JSON format
as the exceptionsFiles
files.
// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
uglify: {
options: {
nameCache: '.tmp/grunt-uglify-cache.json',
},
my_target: {
files: {
'dest/output1.min.js': ['src/input1.js'],
'dest/output2.min.js': ['src/input2.js']
}
}
}
});
Release History
- 2022-03-27βββv5.1.0βββUpdate dependencies. uglify-js ^3.15.2. Requires node 12+.
- 2020-07-16βββv5.0.0βββRequires node 10+. Update dependencies.
- 2019-03-21βββv4.0.1βββUpdate uglify-js to v3.5.0. Update dependencies.
- 2018-08-26βββv4.0.0βββUpdate dependencies. Requires Node.js >= 6.
- 2018-07-29βββv3.4.0βββUpdate uglify-js to v3.4.0.
- 2017-12-24βββv3.3.0βββUpdate uglify-js to v3.3.0.
- 2017-11-26βββv3.2.1βββUpdate uglify-js to v3.2.0.
- 2017-09-11βββv3.1.0βββUpdate uglify-js to v3.1.0.
- 2017-05-20βββv3.0.1βββFix toplevel option.
- 2017-05-12βββv3.0.0βββUpdate uglify-js to v3.0.4.
- 2017-04-05βββv2.3.0βββMake CLI output less verbose.
- 2017-03-31βββv2.2.1βββFix banner option.
- 2017-03-01βββv2.2.0βββUpdate uglify-js to v2.8.3.
- 2017-02-08βββv2.1.0βββShow size changes in output. Switch to
object.assign
. - 2016-07-19βββv2.0.0βββUpdate uglify-js to v2.7.0.
screwIE8
is enabled by default. - 2016-07-19βββv1.0.2βββUpdate grunt to ^1.0.0. Fix
beautify
when passed as an object. Fix docs aboutreport
values. - 2016-03-16βββv1.0.1βββDowngrade maxmin for Node.js 0.10.
- 2016-03-04βββv1.0.0βββUse uglify-js ~2.6.2 to fix sourcemap issue. Improve docs for
global-defs
and--define
options. AddsourceMapUrl
option. Addbare_returns
option. Optionally set report verbosity level using report option. - 2016-01-29βββv0.11.1βββUpdate lodash to ^4.0.1. Update grunt-contrib-clean to ^0.7.0. Update grunt-contrib-jshint to ^0.12.0.
- 2015-11-20βββv0.11.0βββUpdate uglify-js to ~2.6.0.
- 2015-11-12βββv0.10.1βββUpdate uglify-js to ~2.5.
- 2015-10-27βββv0.10.0βββUpdate uglify-js to ^2.5.
- 2015-08-24βββv0.9.2βββUpdate uglify-js to ^2.4.24
- 2015-04-07βββv0.9.1βββMore fixes for
mangle
options. - 2015-04-07βββv0.9.0βββAdd hook into uglify-js's mangling functionality.
- 2015-03-30βββv0.8.1βββLock uglify-js to 2.4.17 due to breaking changes.
- 2015-02-19βββv0.8.0βββAdd
screwIE8
option. Fix issue with explicitcompress
in Node.js 0.12.0. - 2014-12-23βββv0.7.0βββAdd
sourceMapRoot
options. Update readme descriptions. Remove reference to clean-css. - 2014-09-17βββv0.6.0βββOutput fixes. Add
ASCIIOnly
option. Other fixes. - 2014-07-25βββv0.5.1βββUpdate chalk to ^0.5.1. Output updates.
- 2014-03-01βββv0.4.0βββRemove grunt-lib-contrib dependency and add more colors.
- 2014-02-27βββv0.3.3βββRemove unnecessary calls to
grunt.template.process
. - 2014-01-22βββv0.3.2βββFix handling of
sourceMapIncludeSources
option. - 2014-01-20βββv0.3.1βββFix relative path issue in sourcemaps.
- 2014-01-16βββv0.3.0βββRefactor sourcemap support.
- 2013-11-09βββv0.2.7βββPrepend banner if
sourceMap
option not set, addresses #109. - 2013-11-08βββv0.2.6βββMerge #45, #53, #85 (#105 by way of duping #53). Add support for banners in uglified files with sourcemaps. Update docs.
- 2013-10-28βββv0.2.5βββAdd warning for banners when using sourcemaps.
- 2013-09-02βββv0.2.4βββUpdate sourcemap format via #83.
- 2013-06-10βββv0.2.3βββAdd
footer
option. - 2013-05-31βββv0.2.2βββRevert #56 due to #58 until chrome/239660 firefox/870361 drop.
- 2013-05-22βββv0.2.1βββUpdate uglify-js to ~2.3.5 #55 #40. Change
sourcemappingUrl
syntax #56. Disable sorting of names for consistent mangling #44. Update docs forsourceMapRoot
#47 #25. - 2013-03-14βββv0.2.0βββNo longer report gzip results by default. Support
report
option. - 2013-01-30βββv0.1.2βββAdd better error reporting. Support for dynamic names of multiple sourcemaps.
- 2013-02-15βββv0.1.1βββFirst official release for Grunt 0.4.0.
- 2013-01-18βββv0.1.1rc6βββUpdate grunt/gruntplugin dependencies to rc6. Change in-development grunt/gruntplugin dependency versions from tilde version ranges to specific versions.
- 2013-01-09βββv0.1.1rc5βββUpdate to work with grunt v0.4.0rc5. Switch back to
this.files
API. - 2012-11-28βββv0.1.0βββWork in progress, not officially released yet.
Task submitted by "Cowboy" Ben Alman
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