I understand the basic principles of script/style compression. What I would like to know is how do I integrate minified/combined scripts into my process and not interrupt my normal development flow?
I obviously want to use the regular files while developing then switch to the minified versions for deployment. I currently use YepNope to load my scripts. Is there some sort of conditional I could use to tell the browser to load the regular files?
Environment: VS 2010
My solution to this was to go with Microsoft’s own Ajax Min its pretty nice. Compression is on par with some others I used.
As far as telling the browser to load minified versions or full, I added that into the post build script. Basically if you are in this particular environment then do not build the minified versions. Then in the js I have a little flag that points to one or the other depending on environment.
Hope this helps.